{"id":4003,"date":"2011-02-03T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2011-02-03T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:32:37","slug":"obama-was-wrong-to-pray-with-hate-mongers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/obama-was-wrong-to-pray-with-hate-mongers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Was Wrong to Pray with Hate Mongers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I listen to Barack Obama speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast.\u00a0 He was eloquent, as usual, but he should never have been there at all.\u00a0 By his presence he gave credence to The Fellowship, an extremist pseudo-Christian group, also known as The Family, that operates C Street House, infamous for attempts to cover up Republican scandal, and that supports the attempts in Uganda to legislate the death penalty for being gay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama was warned and asked not to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"3obamaNPB\"For more than 50 years, the National Prayer Breakfast has served as a prime networking event in Washington, bringing together the president, members of Congress, foreign diplomats and thousands of religious, business and military leaders for scrambled eggs and supplication.<\/p>\n

Usually, the annual event passes with little notice. But this year, an ethics group in Washington has asked President Obama and Congressional leaders to stay away from the breakfast, on Thursday<\/strong>. Religious and gay rights groups have organized competing prayer events in 17 cities, and protesters are picketing in Washington and Boston.<\/p>\n

The objections are focused on the sponsor of the breakfast, a secretive evangelical Christian network called The Fellowship, also known as The Family, and accusations that it has ties to legislation in Uganda that calls for the imprisonment and execution of homosexuals<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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CREW also asked him not to go.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"3cstreetNPB\"Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) called on President Obama and all members of Congress not to attend this year’s National Prayer Breakfast<\/strong>.\u00a0 The event is scheduled for tomorrow. The breakfast, while designed to appear as a government-sanctioned event, in reality serves as a meeting and recruiting event for the shadowy Fellowship Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“The National Prayer Breakfast uses the attendance of elected leaders to give the Fellowship greater credibility and facilitate its networking and fundraising<\/strong>,” said CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan. “President Obama and members of Congress should not legitimatize this shadowy group with ties to scandal-ridden politicians and hateful and discriminatory positions against gays<\/span><\/strong>.”\u00a0 Sloan continued, “It is all the more important that American political leaders avoid this event in light of the murder of prominent Ugandan gay activist David Kato<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The Fellowship, also known as “The Foundation” and “The Family,” is run by Doug Coe, a spiritual advisor to some government officials, who uses the organization to push his brand of Christianity. The Fellowship owns and operates the infamous C Street House, a congressional residence and meeting place on Capitol Hill that has been a frequent haunt of some ethically-challenged elected officials identified by CREW, including Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Obama may have feared being perceived as anti-Christian, if he refused.\u00a0 But the hatred of these Republicans against gays is truly anti-Christian, and by attending, Obama added to the confusion about Christianity in America.\u00a0 Authentic Christians do not hate others, despite Republican claims to the contrary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I listen to Barack Obama speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast.\u00a0 He was eloquent, as usual, but he should never have been there at all.\u00a0 By his presence he gave credence to The Fellowship, an extremist pseudo-Christian group, also known as The Family, that operates C Street House, infamous for attempts to cover […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}