This is false. There may have been peaceful people present, but there were also agitators causing harm.
Transcript: Attorney General William Barr on "Face the Nation," June 7, 2020 - CBS News
Jesus was a practicing Jew and yet, this did not stop him from turning over the tables of the money changers, or referring to the scribes and Pharisees as "white washed tombs."
What is her real concern here? Is she concerned that the President of the United States disrespected a Bishop of the Episcopal church? Why does she think she deserves a courtesy call from the President? Is she concerned about the President's manners? Was she concerned at all that someone set her church on fire? Did she use her own church for political gain? That's what I saw.
Yes, God is love. And Jesus taught us that our love needs to be perfect as God's love is perfect. The Washington Post article resorted that some of her followers were handing out water bottles and granola bars to protesters "and expressing solidarity with their cause." Were they handing out water bottles and granola bars to the police officers also? That would be perfect love, right?
Wouldn't most pastors exhort the flock to stay home out of danger? Why would she allow her flock to remain in harm's way? Rather than giving out water to everyone, which is perfect love, they gave a drink of water to those with which they agreed in support of the protesters with whom they agreed. In other words, Bishop Budde herself was using the church to send the country a political message.
One last question, do you think Bishop Budde would have gotten a hearing from the Washington Post if her message was "Repent, and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ?" Is that in her sacred text?