The nonprofit Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) has sent a letter to Congress and the White House urging a boycott of the National Prayer Breakfast, which is due to be held on Thursday morning this week.
The nonprofit Freedom from Religion Foundation has sent a letter to Congress and the White House urging a boycott of the National Prayer Breakfast, which is due to be held on Thursday morning this week.The National Prayer Breakfast is controversial and shrouded in secrecy. It has become a nexus for religious extremism, infiltration by Russian agents, and organized bigotry .
Every year more members of Congress walk away from the event, including Representatives [Nancy] Pelosi, [Ro] Khanna, [Ann] Kirkpatrick, and [Ted] Lieu. And each year more and more negative stories and well-sourced documentaries about the event continue to surface. The event is framed as a way for all Americans to come together through prayer during times of difficulty and division – but instead it invites division.
This year’s prayer breakfast is being held under new auspices: the National Prayer Breakfast Foundation, controlled by Congress, was established because of concerns about the organization of the event, as Sen. Chris Coons The annual event “went on several days, had thousands of people attending, and a very large and somewhat complex organization,” Coons said in an interview.
The Associated Press also mentioned that past prayer breakfasts had become politically divisive. It mentioned thein 2020, after President Donald Trump had been acquitted in his first Senate impeachment trial, when he criticized the religious pretensions of Pelosi and others. President Donald Trump holds up a newspaper with the headline that reads “ACQUITTED” during the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast, at the Washington Hilton, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. a moral equivalence between historic Christianity and the Islamic State’s terror.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,
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