What’s wrong with a prayer breakfast?
What’s wrong with a prayer breakfast?
Well, for the last 50 years nothing. The National Prayer Breakfast is one of the most well attended events in Washington attracting the President, members of Congress and foreign diplomats. But this year, a little controversy has colored this otherwise peaceful gathering. Gay rights and religious groups claim that the sponsor of the prayer breakfast, a clandestine evangelical Christian network called The Family, has ties to legislation in Uganda that imprisons and even executes homosexuals. Protesters were urging President Obama to boycott the breakfast this morning. The President attended but called Uganda’s policies towards homosexuals odious.
Guests:
Peter Montgomery, Senior Fellow at People for the American Way
Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone and author of, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power”
- Patt Morrison for February 4, 2010
- What’s wrong with a prayer breakfast?
- A cyclers’ paradise—a private highway?
- Can the Saints change New Orleans? View of the Super Bowl from the Lower 9th Ward
- Is Lancaster a growing “Christian community?”
- Teen pregnancies, abortions on the rise: is it sex ed or media?
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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