President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday and got a sermon he may not have been expecting: an appeal to protect immigrants and respect gay rights.

A Touro Law Center professor who also serves as the school's associate dean of diversity and inclusion said the order likely will be challenged.

"President Trump claims to be a strong proponent of freedom of speech, yet he is clearly committed to censorship."

“In the Name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” Budde said. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. Some who fear for their lives.”

Donald Trump was forced Tuesday to sit through a sermon by a bishop begging him to have "mercy" on gays and poor immigrants as the Republican celebrated the start to his second term as US president.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde joined the co-hosts of "The View" to discuss the political firestorm that followed her plea to President Trump during a prayer service on Tuesday.

US President Donald Trump’s virtual speech at WEF and more criticism against the grounded drones in Switzerland.

Emerson-Froebe said the fear in the U.S. is LGBTTQ+ people are being pushed back into the closet. The result, she said, is LGBTTQ+ people don’t want to spend their money down there.

The debate over Ghana’s Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, described popularly as Ghana’s ‘Anti-LGBT Bill’, has reached a critical juncture. For years, concerns about international pressure, particularly from powerful nations like the United States, have stalled the Bill’s progress.