Just one more in the long line of insults.

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16. In his capacity as the most powerful person in the world and perhaps

the most influential, he has endorsed marriage equality.

Each year several guest speakers visit the various events connected with the National Prayer Breakfast. However, the main event, the Thursday morning breakfast, typically has two special guest speakers: the President of the United States and a guest whose identity is kept confidential until that morning. Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in the breakfast. Past keynote speakers include:

1973 Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR)
1977 (25th Annual NPB) U.S. House Majority Leader James Wright (D-TX)
1987 Elizabeth Dole, United States Secretary of Transportation
1994 (42nd Annual NPB) Mother Teresa[6] of Calcutta
2005 (53rd Annual NPB) Ambassador Tony P. Hall, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture
2006 (54th Annual NPB) Bono,[7] Irish singer/songwriter and humanitarian
2007 (55th Annual NPB) Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute
2008 (56th Annual NPB) Ward Brehm,[8] a Minnesotan who chairs the U.S.-African Development Foundation
2009 (57th Annual NPB) Tony Blair,[9] former Prime Minister of the UK
2010 (58th Annual NPB) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,[10] Prime Minister of Spain
2011 (59th Annual NPB) Randall Wallace,[11] Academy Award-Winning Motion Picture Producer/Writer/Director
2012 (60th Annual NPB) Eric Metaxas,[12] author


That said, I'd rather no President went. And I think that it's pretty disgraceful to have it organized by the Fellowship.

I do think your high dudgeon on this is a little hysterical.