Posted on 01/29/2023 1:31:33 PM PST by gitmo
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Prayer Breakfast, one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington, is splitting from the private religious group that had overseen it for decades, due to concerns the gathering had become too divisive.
The organizer and host for this year's breakfast, scheduled for Thursday, will be the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation, headed by former Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark.
Sen. Chris Coons, a regular participant and chairman of the Senate ethics committee, said the move was prompted in part by concerns in recent years that members of Congress did not know important details about the larger multiday gathering.
Coons, D-Del., said that in the past, he and Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the committee's vice chairman, had questions about who was invited and how money was being raised.
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Earlier this month, the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter signed by 30 groups to the White House and members of Congress asking them to boycott the event because of questions about the International Foundation.
The organization’s co-president, Annie Laurie Gaylor, said the foundation's basic concerns with the breakfast remain despite the split with the larger religious gathering.
“For decades, FFRF has protested the appearance of the National Prayer Breakfast being a quasi-governmental gathering, which pressures the president and Congress to put on a display of piety that sends a message that the United States is a Christian nation," she wrote.
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I’m not sure, precisely, what demon democrats worship, but it’s not Jesus or God.
“pressures the president and Congress to put on a display of piety that sends a message that the United States is a Christian nation,” she wrote.”
Well, we certainly wouldn’t want the congress critters, even for a moment, to display piety and send the message that the U.S. is a Christian nation. Far better to worship at the altar of atheism and deviancy.
Coons is a Marxist.
Is this the event,, where Obama said we have to get off our high horse , and talked about how the Crusades and other atrocities were committed in the Name of Christ?
They mean too Christian.
“Sen. Chris Coons, a regular participant and chairman of the Senate ethics committee, said the move was prompted in part by concerns in recent years that members of Congress did not know important details about the larger multiday gathering.
Coons, D-Del., said that in the past, he and Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the committee’s vice chairman, had questions about who was invited and how money was being raised.”
Uh-huh. Sure, Chris.
A Democrat expressing concerns about how money was raised? LOL
-PJ
But they don’t have questions about the hush-hush slush fund the congress critters can access to settle sexual harassment claims, and any documents the public can see to find out who claimed what, and how much money has been spent thus far.
Nope, it’s those nasty prayer breakfasts they want to be vigilant about.
Mark Pryor??? OMG!!! PSTUPID!
Would be nice to get the FFRF and the ACLU in the same room together
These people are satanic.
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