Check out what past St John’s Reverend John C Harper said in 1963 right in the President’s own whitehousehistory.org website:
Civil Rights Era at St John’s Church
Though African Americans had been married by St. John’s rector in the 1840s, in 1960, the church had no African-American members. As the Civil Rights Movement gathered force, the Church leadership recognized the need to actively welcome parishioners of all races. In August 1963, the same month that saw the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom during which the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. made his “I Have a Dream” speech, St. John’s Reverend John C. Harper sent a letter to his parishioners that read, “This church building is open, as it has always been, to all who want to worship here; the ministry of this parish is extended to any who seek it; our fellowship one with another has no limitations whatsoever.” On the day of the March on Washington, over 700 people meeting for the march filled St. John’s.
Way to try to void what the female minister said currently. Let’s try to stick to the present. Besides Trump didn’t worship. He hoisted a bible for quick second and left. Lol.
With all due respect, we all get to decide for ourselves where our own respective viewpoints and focuses reside-past, present or future.
Being the Episcopal church has not yet apparently spoken out on the record against what one of its former Reverend’s in John C. Harper said in his 1963 letter, we can safely assume St. John’s is remaining open to all with no limitations whatsoever.
Lol. Enjoy your pretzel like logic condemning one and supporting the other.
I personally believe it was fine for both, except for the harming of citizens.