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February 15, 2012

The Candidates at Prayer

Posted by Amy Davidson

“I wake up each morning and I say a brief prayer, and I spend a little time in scripture and devotion,” Obama said earlier this month at the National Prayer Breakfast. “And from time to time, friends of mine, some of who are here today, friends like Joel Hunter or T. D. Jakes, will come by the Oval Office or they’ll call on the phone or they’ll send me a e-mail, and we’ll pray together, and they’ll pray for me and my family, and for our country.” As he said that, a different sort of e-mail was making its way around the country:

This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.’ BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House.

This was a variation on an e-mail that had been circulating back in 2010 (“President Obama has decided there will no longer be a ‘National Day of Prayer’…. As an American Christian ‘I am offended.’ If you agree copy and paste…”) Neither was true. Politifact noted that Obama had, in fact, issued proclamations declaring National Prayer day every year he has been in office (he didn’t have a party for it, as George W. Bush had, but then Bush’s predecessors did so only occasionally or not at all. Also, the Islamic event on the Capitol steps was a private event that had nothing to do with him.

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