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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBernie Sanders mentions the Family's National Prayer Breakfast on his website:
Bernie Sanders mentions the Family's National Prayer Breakfast on his website:http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/020714
May take a little digging, but we might find out he's attended one in person. Many politicians across the political spectrum have been 'involved' in some capacity with The Family. The Breakfast where Obama spoke was the one where he lambasted those who use religion to wreak violence and had the audacity to mention Christians Crusades along with modern Muslim extremists. The rightwing rags exploded into a sh*tstorm over it.
"Obama Denounces Religious Repression Speaking to thousands at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama declared that promoting freedom of faith around the world was a central goal of American foreign policy, The New York Times reported. The president criticized China, North Korea and Iran for repressing religious minorities and praised Pope Francis promotion of economic and social justice."
Many politicians on Capitol Hill were "involved" with the Fellowship. They hold Prayer Breakfasts with many politicians across the spectrum attending.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/politics/04prayer.html?_r=0
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.
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. Religious and gay rights groups have organized competing prayer events in 17 cities, and protesters are picketing in Washington and Boston.
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.
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A White House official said that Mr. Obama, like each president since Dwight D. Eisenhower, planned to attend the breakfast. Michelle Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and other cabinet members will also attend. The president will deliver remarks about the importance of an openness to compromise, the official said.
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The breakfast, which usually features a prominent keynote speaker (past ones have included Bono, Mother Teresa and former Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain), is only the most visible in several days of gatherings where the Familys networking takes place in smaller groups. There are separate meetings for African politicians, military leaders, business people and media professionals, to name a few.
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Response to KittyWampus (Original post)
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cali
(114,904 posts)bigots? Why no, villa. That would be Hillary. Live with it.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Sorry, just wishful thinking over here.
I bet Bernie wouldn't capitulate to the imaginary being or suck up to those who believe in order to get their support.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)lose their capacity to discriminate after all nobody would use the word "prayer" or "christian" as a political weapon.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Do you know what the National Prayer Breakfast is? Although hosted by The Fellowship, it's their only public event. There's over 3000 attendees...so pretty much everybody in DC attends, plus leaders from around the world. Every POTUS since Eisenhower has attended. Sanders did not mention having attended, but he may well have, along with DWS. However, as Jews it's unlikely that Sanders and DWS have attended any of the weekly Bible-reading sessions, as Clinton has been reported as doing by witnesses.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)was pretty well made.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)peecoolyour
(336 posts)And I think Bernie would agree.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I don't participate, nor do I believe, but I would never really knock someone for their religious beliefs.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)breakfast is allowed at all and that any of our politicians attend it. Besides being a racist and a homophobe, Douglas Coe praises Hitler and Mussolini and tells members they should aspire to be like them. I believe there's even a video up on YouTube. This guy shouldn't be anywhere near DC and have as much power as he does .