Editor, Gazette-Journal:
On Jan. 21, while President Donald Trump was attending an interfaith service at Washington National Cathedral, Episcopalian Prelate Marian Edgar Budde confronted him by imploring him to remember those in the population who are scared, namely immigrants and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
For those of you old enough to remember, you will recall President Lyndon Johnson attending a service at Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War. The Episcopalian Reverend Cotesworth Pinckney Lewis, while delivering his sermon, looked at the President and scolded him about the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.
History does seem to have a way of often repeating itself.
Jim TaylorHayes, Va.
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