Is bishop mariann edgar budde gay

MARIANN Budde is the current Bishop of Washington and she is supported in her duty by her dear husband Paul. The bishop made headlines when she called for Trump to show “mercy” to LGBTQ Americans and asylum seekers, which led the president to brand her as “nasty”.

In , she presided over the interment of the ashes of Matthew Shepard, a murdered gay man, at the cathedral. She delivered a benediction at the Democratic National Convention. Budde delivered the homily at the January interfaith prayer service following Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.