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Speaker 2: Welcome to Steffan never told you protection by her.

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Speaker 1: Radio and for our activists around the world. I thought

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Speaker 1: Edgar Buddy, her work. It's always been about activism and

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Speaker 1: though our conversations about Western religion is not good, we don't,

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Speaker 1: we definitely wanted to take the time for those who

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Speaker 1: up and speak out and love their neighbors. So we

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Speaker 1: wanted to take the time to talk about Bishop Buddy

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Speaker 1: and her works. Thus far so Bishop Buddy seems to

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Speaker 1: for theology and has been doing this work for a minute.

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Speaker 1: So Some of her work includes removing of images of

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Speaker 1: Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the church cathedral

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Speaker 1: civil rights activists and their struggles, which we love. Help

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Speaker 1: in the presiding of internal services over the ashes of

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Speaker 1: She stood up for those who are protesting the murder

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Speaker 1: in so that Trump could have his you know, Bible

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Speaker 1: I thought that. I thought that. I went and looked

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Speaker 1: I thought it was like so true. I thought so too.

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Speaker 1: They someone fixed it for him. And to give more

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Speaker 1: detail about her involvement with honoring Matthew Shepherd. Here's a

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Speaker 1: bit from them dot US quote. In twenty eighteen, Buddy

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Speaker 1: seven years later. Shepherd was murdered in nineteen ninety eight

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Speaker 1: bishop Buddy saying, there will be young people from all

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Speaker 1: All she is asking for is humanity, and people lost

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Speaker 1: their damn minds some people. So she has received thousands

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Speaker 3: Yes, because I'm what, ma'am, oh, just a least a man,

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Speaker 1: Course Trump was not happy. Here's a quote from MPR

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