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Special Report
Praying Against the National Prayer Breakfast
Thursday’s annual gathering will face pious competition from the Occupy crowd.
President Obama and much of official Washington, D.C. will troupe to the Washington Hilton Hotel on Thursday for the 59th National Prayer Breakfast. Past speakers have included every president since Dwight Eisenhower, along with luminaries such as Mother Teresa, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Spanish Socialist leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Jordan’s King Abdullah II has also spoken at an affiliated event. Although it’s a largely nonpartisan and interfaith celebration of civil religion, secularists and some liberal religionists have never liked it. Their dislike is partly owing to the organizer, the sometimes mysterious Fellowship Foundation.
According to a writer for “Americans United for the Separation of Church and State,” the Fellowship is a “shadowy fundamentalist Christian group” whose “infamous ‘C Street House’” on Capitol Hill has facilitated congressional sex scandals. (Former U.S. Senator John Ensign and former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford once lived there with other then members of the U.S. House of Representatives.) More intrinsically “annoying” to ultra-strict separationists like Americans United is that the National Prayer Breakfast, though privately sponsored, “has all the trappings of an official governmental worship service, with the president, members of Congress and other dignitaries gathering in a way that appears to merge religion and state.”
Admitting it may not “technically violate” the First Amendment’s prohibition against “establishing religion,” Americans United still frets the morning prayer session “tramples on the church-state separationist spirit that infuses the Constitution.” Their writer also complains that this year’s National Prayer Breakfast invitation quotes Thomas Jefferson lauding the “pure principles which Jesus taught.” This writer worries that Jefferson, who disagreed with the “theology of ultra-conservative Christians,” has been unjustly “pressed into service by ultra-conservative Christians to promote their theocratic agenda.”
Actually, the quote about Jesus from Jefferson is quite appropriate for the prayer breakfast. Like Jefferson, organizers have traditionally de-emphasized Christian orthodox beliefs about Jesus Christ in favor of more widely citing Jesus of Nazareth as teacher. The Fellowship has long cherished its premier event for its outreach to non-Christian elites, including Muslim ambassadors and heads of state.
“I wish our national leaders would quit attending it,” the Americans United writer complained. “And I wish the group sponsoring it would quit trying to claim Thomas Jefferson as an ally.” Americans United has been beating this same drum for decades. More interestingly, religious voices aligned with “Occupy DC.” are this year hosting their own alternative “People’s Prayer Breakfast.”
“While the 1% attend the National Prayer Breakfast, the 99% will ‘…reflect, pray, and draw attention to the suffering and marginalization of millions of U.S. citizens languishing in economic distress, uncertainty and poverty,” explained one organizer of the People’s Prayer Breakfast in the Huffington Post. Besides their own much less expensive breakfast at the Church of the Pilgrims United Church of Christ (UCC) congregation near Dupont Circle, these champions of the “people” will also convene a “Silent Witness” outside the upscale National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton. The National Prayer breakfast is by invitation only and costs $650 per plate.
According to Occupy Faith DC, the sponsoring Fellowship is a “secretive conservative group” that “explicitly cultivates the wealthy and the powerful for political influence.” In contrast to what typically occurs inside the rarefied Washington Hilton International Ballroom, Occupy Faith DC wants President Obama and his several thousand elite morning prayer partners to “focus their conversations and prayers on the suffering of the 99%.”
Occupy Faith DC conveniently relocated their Monday press D.C. conference about the People’s Prayer Breakfast to McPherson Square, where media were already assembled to watch an anticipated clash between Occupiers and D.C. police. The National Park Service had informed Occupiers over the weekend that their encampment in the downtown park was to end. Stubborn Occupiers responded Monday by mounting a defiantly huge blue tarp over the equestrian statue of General James McPherson. Perhaps the same defiant spirit will guide the People’s Prayer Breakfast and the “Silent Witness” outside the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday.
At their Monday press conference, Occupy Faith DC denounced the National Prayer Breakfast’s focus on the “rich and famous.” (I’m indebted to a report from my colleague Jeff Walton, who attended.) “Who is going to be represented in the other event are the representatives of the one percent,” complained the UCC pastor of Church of the Pilgrims, who called for religious people to “be the revolutionaries that our spiritual traditions call us to be.”
A Presbyterian clergy at the press conference justified Occupy Faith DC’s stance against the National Prayer Breakfast: “I don’t think there is a problem challenging a small group of business interests.” After all, “Prayer is not just about access to powerful people — it moves us forward in action.” An imam from the Falls Church, Virginia mosque attended by some 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter also spoke at the press conference. “If you believe what is right and what is just, you have faith,” inclusively declared Imam Johari Abdul-Malikhe, who is the mosque’s outreach director. “Where it comes from doesn’t matter.” Another Muslim representative, Ibrahim Abdil-Mu’id Ramey of the Muslim American Society, was more aggressive: “As Jesus said in the temple, sometimes righteousness requires a little butt kicking.”
Of course, the National Prayer Breakfast is primarily about schmoozing, not “butt kicking.” Exposés like Jeff Sharlet’s 2008 book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, have imagined The Fellowship as a high octane push for Christian theocracy. Whatever the fanciful theories about its organizer, the National Prayer Breakfast is a mostly admirable tradition that provokes politicians into at least momentarily expressing high minded religious principles. They also must at least seem to mix convivially with their political opponents. In the fog of security details and limousines outside the Washington Hilton on Thursday, the “Silent Witness” by Occupy Faith DC likely will gain little attention and cause even less harm.
About the Author
Mark Tooley is president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, D.C. and author of Methodism and Politics in the Twentieth Century. You can follow him on Twitter @markdtooley.
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Fred Farkel| 2.1.12 @ 6:31AM
The question is: " Will everyone kneel on their prayer rugs this time and face Mecca?" It would not surprise me.
Hoti Congressional| 2.1.12 @ 9:11AM
To me, the purpose of the National Prayer Breakfast is primarily to allow politicians the opportunity to wave the Bible about to satisfy their fundamentalist constituents.
But I will attend, though my heart's not in it, just as I have for the past seven years.
As a modest Christian, I find the event a little too showy for my taste, but as Tooley says, its a time to schmooze, and that is what my wife and I will do--smile and schmooze.
Alan Brooks| 2.1.12 @ 10:53PM
Just wait until your convention is ruined next summer; and if the Democratic convention is also trashed, so be it-
YOU are the ones who are most afraid of change. But you will get it, in Spades.
Appleby| 2.1.12 @ 6:56AM
"An imam from the Falls Church, Virginia mosque attended by some 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter also spoke at the press conference. "If you believe what is right and what is just, you have faith," inclusively declared Imam Johari Abdul-Malikhe, who is the mosque's outreach director. "Where it comes from doesn't matter."
As this paragraph so clearly indicated, the People's Prayer Breakfast is one more opportunity to poke a stick in the eye of Mom and Dad. Perhaps some of the people involved will pray. Perhaps that will do some of them some good. But basically it's all about throwing rocks and chanting, and making their Moms wish they had become Nuns like their mothers wanted them to.
Alan Brooks| 2.1.12 @ 10:55PM
"poke a stick in the eye of Mom and Dad."
If dad is the RNC, then fine-- poke it out.
bill| 2.1.12 @ 7:13AM
May they all be denied a kosher breakfast by skinflint Mitt.
Darin| 2.1.12 @ 7:58AM
So the National Prayer Breakfast violates the non-existant "separation of church and state" clause but the goverment ordering Catholic institutions to perform abortions is OK? Interesting.
Arlington Big Fish| 2.1.12 @ 9:35AM
Those of us who believe in the separation of church & state cite no such "clause", so of course it's "non-existant" [sic]. And the government did not order Catholic institutions to perform abortions. Get your fact straight.
Claypoole| 2.1.12 @ 9:56AM
No, the government has not ordered Catholic institutions to perform abortions--yet. What BO and Sebelius have ordered is that Catholic institutions provide health insurance for their employees that includes free birth control, including those medications that are abortifacients. Mandating surgical abortion is not far away, if the Catholic church does not resist with all its might.
whosthis| 2.1.12 @ 11:23AM
The heart of the issue is not what the government is trying to order religious institutions to do. the heart of the issue is that President Obama is claiming the authority to decide by executive fiat what constitutes religious mission and activity.
vmd| 2.1.12 @ 12:59PM
The supreme court ruled again that there is a seperation between church and state: Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC
TrueBlue | 2.1.12 @ 4:05PM
The Supreme Court has ruled against the Constitution on more than one occasion. There is no line in the Constitution that says anything about separation of church and state. The First Amendment clearly and directly states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.," to recap, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That is NOT separation of Church and State. That is saying they will not declare Lutheran, Anglican, Baptist, etc as the national religion, and they WILL NOT make laws that prohibit the free exercise of religion.
This includes PUBLIC OFFICIALS creating rules that disallow people to pray if they so wish. All of these public schools banning prayer or the mention of god should have their entire staff fired, up to and including the local school board for restricting the free practice of religion by citizens of this country. Every court judge that has ruled people cannot put up displays of religion on public/private property (so long as they do not use public funds) should be removed from their position. Public property is public property; everyone has the right to use it so long as they use official channels and get any appropriate licenses/pay fees that are required by local/federal law. Any obvious discrimination allowing those who profess no religion over those who openly follow a religion is ILLEGAL by the US Constitution.
I don't like organized religion and even I get this!
runningdeer| 2.1.12 @ 9:22PM
Well said and I agree up to a point. Could you just imagine how folks would act if they exercised the freedom to worship as they please in schools now?
Kids would be kneeling and hollering prayers to all sorts of Gods and Goddesses and Harry Potter would be an Idol for sure. They would create such a mess that the National Guard would be needed. We don't have enough school police now to handle the problems in most public schools.
Doug Indeap| 2.4.12 @ 2:37AM
Separation of church and state is a bedrock principle of our Constitution much like the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances. In the Constitution, the founders did not simply say in so many words that there should be separation of powers and checks and balances; rather, they actually separated the powers of government among three branches and established checks and balances. Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of "We the people" (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god(s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god(s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god(s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office. Given the norms of the day, the founders' avoidance of any expression in the Constitution suggesting that the government is somehow based on any religious belief was quite a remarkable and plainly intentional choice. They later buttressed this separation of government and religion with the First Amendment, which constrains the government from undertaking to establish religion or prohibit individuals from freely exercising their religions. The basic principle, thus, rests on much more than just the First Amendment.
It is important to distinguish between the "public square" and "government" and between "individual" and "government" speech about religion. The constitutional principle of separation of church and state does not purge religion from the public square--far from it. Indeed, the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause assures that each individual is free to exercise and express his or her religious views--publicly as well as privately. The Amendment constrains only the government not to promote or otherwise take steps toward establishment of religion. As government can only act through the individuals comprising its ranks, when those individuals are performing their official duties (e.g., public school teachers instructing students in class), they effectively are the government and thus should conduct themselves in accordance with the First Amendment's constraints on government. When acting in their individual capacities, they are free to exercise their religions as they please. If their right to free exercise of religion extended even to their discharge of their official responsibilities, however, the First Amendment constraints on government establishment of religion would be eviscerated. While figuring out whether someone is speaking for the government in any particular circumstance may sometimes be difficult, making the distinction is critical.
VonMisesJr| 2.1.12 @ 8:12AM
This day should be utilized as an opportunity to praise the importance of religion in America, and to debunk the specious mangling of our First Amendment rights.
Michael Barone in "Our First Revolution" paints a clear picture of the conflicts in Britain prior to our Founding regarding the "Popery Laws" and "Test Acts" that led to the Glorious Revolution in 1688-1689. With an established state religion that began with Henry VIII, not only were subjects forced to tithe to the Anglican Church through their taxes, but a caste system was devised on religious grounds.
Murray Rothbard's "Conceived in Liberty" is an economic history of America's Founding, but speaks to our early colonies and religion. MA was a Puritan colony, VA was Anglican settlers and MD was Catholic almost exclusively. Other religions were excluded from the colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. While the rigidness declined through attrition, the rights of the states to be based on specific religions was not precluded by the Constitution. On the contrary, the First Amendment simply prohibits the central government (that's DC for those in Rio Linda) from establishing a state religion (meaning the entire country could not have a declared faith requirement).
I think it is important to understand as the last 100 years of Progressive (or actually regressive) governance has abandoned our Constitution and bastardized our laws relying on Court Rulings and Precedent. So with that said, "G0d Bless you, my friends."
Louis Jenkins| 2.1.12 @ 8:26AM
So who are they leaving off of the program this year? Undoubtly the Muslims will be invited in droves. In fact, it will probably be the greatest gathering of Muslims only superceded by the yearly trek to Mecca. At $650 per plate I'm surprised Obama couldn't do a little better, like taking six fishes and some loaves of bread and feeding the the whole bunch. Then take up the scraps and distribute them to the soup line down the street. We'll have the poor with us always.
cowgirl| 2.1.12 @ 11:04AM
Occupy Faith DC. I am sure it has something do with "THOU SHALL COVENT THY NEIGHBOR's GOODs."
h& h green stamps| 2.1.12 @ 1:36PM
covet not covent
and you're welcome
cowgirl| 2.1.12 @ 2:21PM
No thanks - I am not really impressed by people who post on politic boards by editing postings by correcting grammar and spelling. Too shallow.
I mistyped a word. So what? It happens.
Ease up and be happy. Life is too short.
And you are welcome for the advice.
h& h green stamps| 2.1.12 @ 4:20PM
"politic boards"
Surely you meant politics boards or political boards.
In matters of literacy, we must do all we can to uphold standards.
cowgirl| 2.2.12 @ 10:26AM
I really don't care. Obviously your life consists of correcting other people's typo's. Must suck to be you.....
and your welcome again for the advice.
SeymourGlass| 2.1.12 @ 2:58PM
Wasn't it "S and H" Green Stamps?
You're welcome.
Margie| 2.1.12 @ 3:26PM
Your age is showing there, Seymour. :^)..
h& h green stamps| 2.1.12 @ 4:15PM
Here in Plymouth, England, we collect h & h green stamps.
SeymourGlass| 2.1.12 @ 4:49PM
I will apologize if proven wrong but, can you provide a reference to "h and h green stamps"? I googled it and it came with "S and H" - even in England. Thanks.
h & h green stamps| 2.1.12 @ 6:25PM
My, how you do work, SeymourGlass. Awfully anal of you to go to this much trouble.
Hadath and Hajj are Islmaic terms (I'll let you research them) and green, as you probably already know) is the color of Islam, my beloved faith.
A local halal market gives these stamps out. For every ten dollars you spend, you earn a stamp. When you collect 7, a sacred number in Islam, you are given a plastic Islamic charm. My children collect them.
May Allah bless you and all readers of this post. So happy to hear that Allah will be called upon at the National Prayer Breakfast.
W| 2.1.12 @ 6:49PM
I remember S&H green stamps, and Top Value stamps from supermarkets that were put in books to redeem. Got a baseball glove that way.
Little Debbie| 2.1.12 @ 8:35PM
S & H.
As I recall, the S stood for Sin, and the H stood for Hell. Sin and you go to hell.
Appleby| 2.1.12 @ 9:23PM
We collected those and Blue Chip Stamps; Mama got a lot of our Christmas goodies by saving stamps. The gas stations gave them out as well as the supermarkets. And I still have glassware that came in boxes of detergent.
SeymourGlass| 2.1.12 @ 7:33PM
Thanks for your answer, "h and h". I'm particularly pleased you're taking your own advice - upholding standards in matters of literacy - by properly capitalizing the beginning of sentences, unlike your first post.
h & h green stamps| 2.1.12 @ 8:27PM
In homage to poet e e cummings, I sometimes choose not to capitalize.
a captital idea. agree? (paying homage i mean)
SeymourGlass| 2.1.12 @ 9:22PM
OK - you're e e cummings sometimes, but not others. Perhaps you should have given "Cowgirl" some literary license?
I missed apologizing, as I said I would. So - my apologies for doubting the existence of H and H Green Stamps.
Skippy| 2.1.12 @ 5:05PM
England?
Hell, you already live in the Caliphate.
Wear your hijab next time you're in Londonistan, you filthy whore.
h & h green stamps| 2.1.12 @ 6:32PM
I pray to Allah that you do not represent the general readership of this blog.
Your lnguage is so crude, so coarse, and you are likewise.
As we say here in England, "You are dead common."
Brenda Faye Inman| 2.1.12 @ 6:33PM
Has it come to this?
It looks like we are now being lectured to by snooty MUSLIMS!
I never!
SeymourGlass| 2.1.12 @ 7:45PM
"h and h" - it's "language", not "lnguage."
As we say in the USA (undefeated against England) - "I know you are, so what am I?"
poppincock| 2.1.12 @ 8:30PM
SeymourAss, you are too ANAL.
Stop it now, or you will end up in the loony bin with all the nuts and the squirrels.
SeymourGlass| 2.1.12 @ 9:23PM
Poppincock (what a clever name - I bet you giggle each time you type it): I know you are, so what am I?
victor| 2.1.12 @ 6:38PM
"Here in Plymouth, England, we collect h & h green stamps."
Pawn Brokers giving out "Green Stamps"?
Over here, "green stamps" refers to money, so in Old Blighty the dollars are Multi-Colored, not just green.
Moe Blotz| 2.1.12 @ 7:43PM
Dollars in Old Blighty would come from here, Canada, or Australia and would be various colours as you point out. The monetary unit of exchange among our British brethren is the Pound Sterling with coins being brass and folding money various colours as well.
C Smith| 2.1.12 @ 11:04AM
All those who reverence Jefferson's Declaration and alter ego as "American Scripture," and eulogize the like-minded pseudo sainthood of our founding fathers, would do well to read the "Jefferson Bible." Eliminating angels, miracles, and concluding with the stone sealed sepulcher in his final verse, Jefferson created a "sanitized" version of Scripture to fit his "faith":
"... the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus... will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" (Jefferson to Adams, April 11, 1823).
Jefferson has since discovered that Jesus is not a fable:
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1Timothy 2:5).
whosthis| 2.1.12 @ 11:25AM
I do not want my faith to be occupied.
O'Borg Collective| 2.1.12 @ 6:40PM
"I do not want my faith to be occupied."
You have no choice.
Resistance is Futile!
David Ensign| 2.1.12 @ 11:31AM
A bit of fact checking: Pilgrims is a congregation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), not the UCC. Might want to fix that.
victor| 2.1.12 @ 4:38PM
This tells you all you need to know about them:
http://www.churchofthepilgrims.....goblue.gif
Welcoming, Inclusive, Diverse!
To quote the Bard:
Diversity is Perversity!
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 5:15PM
Victor/Margie
Are you collecting the unemployment compensation since 2009 Victor? Afraid to anwer?
Gary| 2.1.12 @ 12:54PM
So politicians must not publicly profess their faith? I'm sure these Christian haters don't have any separation of Church and State and religious freedom issues being gored by regs compelling them to provide insurance for medical procedures against their religion. No, that's just fine, what these radicals want is for religion to be an anathema, a thing hidden in the shadows as in ancient Rome. It not only upsets them when politicians profess faith, but even public figures such as Tim Tebow. do so. Never mind that religions in this country provide charity, care, consolation to millions with no questions asked. Take them away and this land would be a sad place. So stuff it haters, atheists, secularists, and shut up.
Margie| 2.1.12 @ 2:35PM
I wonder if the Rev. Wright ever told Obama the truth: that God doesn't hear the prayers of the wicked.
"The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous." Prov. 3:33.
And whatever happened to this principle in the minds of men:
"I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked." Ps. 26:5.
Chauncy Grunch| 2.1.12 @ 4:25PM
"I will not sit with the wicked." This was my retort to my wife last night when she asked me to sit with her in front of the fire.
I am known for quoting the Bible. I especially enjoy quoting it in a snarky way. Brings me much pleasure.
Ashley Goff | 2.1.12 @ 3:19PM
Church of the Pilgrims is a congregation in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), not a congregation in the United Church of Christ.
With God all things r possible| 2.1.12 @ 3:37PM
Spectator headline writers, you missed this target-rich opportunity:
"Preying on the National Prayer Breakfast"
"Shadowy AU Comes Out of Prayer Closet"
"If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: Proletariat Prayers"
"Secularists Scorn But Imitate Religious Right"
"The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Pray Like Conservatives"
"Is This What Jesus Meant When He Said, 'Violent Men Take Hold of God's Kingdom'?"
"Jesus Messed Up: Rich Tax Collector's Prayer Isn't Heard After All"
"Jesus Messed Up , Part 2: Pray Against Your Enemies"
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Julia Duin| 2.1.12 @ 4:03PM
Are you sure about that $650/plate price tag? I've attended as a reporter (paid nothing, ate nothing) and general public. Don't remember the price being anywhere near $650 or even half that.
With God all things r possible| 2.1.12 @ 4:09PM
Maybe the only thing in Washington that actually has to pay for itself? If so, maybe we can work with that. Declare each Government activity to be religiously-oriented and then we could spend no tax money on it.
Fred Farkel| 2.1.12 @ 6:18PM
Oborg campaign fund.
markenoff| 2.1.12 @ 4:26PM
I noticed our local county courthouse has a statute of the Roman goddess "Justitia" on top of the dome. This religious symbol obviously is a state endoresement of paganism. I guess I should call my local ACLU chapter so they can file suit on my behalf.
Rowdy Boots| 2.1.12 @ 8:02PM
Occupy this, Occupy that...
WHY NOT JUST OCCUPY THE UNIVERSE AND GET IT OVER WITH?
Is there anything that these people don't Occupy?
Is there any coherent message besides "I hate anyone who is successful, anyone who disagrees with me?
OCCUPY FAITH? yeah, faith in being a parasite living off the 55%--there is no 99%!
POST American| 2.1.12 @ 11:47PM
------CIA linked mother
---------IVY league 'innie'
-----------'Mysterious' undisclosed benefactors
-------------Former Rockefeller-Kissinger aide
----------------Goldman Sachs quisling
-------------------Probable Averell Harriman clone
BEHOLD!
---------------BAR-Rockefeller Obama!----------------
Buck Ofama| 2.2.12 @ 1:57AM
this g0ddamnedNiggerMotherfucker.
David Brickner| 2.8.12 @ 10:42AM
This kind of language may relieve the frustration of an anti-Obama zealot, but it solves nothing. While I believe that Obama is a lying, seditious, illegal alien infesting the Whitehouse, I don't think the color of his skin has any relevance. He has far too many fault that are obvious to most and the simplistic name calling just distracts from the attention that should be attributed to his true evil nature!