From the Leadership Development site of the National Prayer Breakfast.
"This interfaith gathering features speakers focused on affirming commonly held religious values and putting aside political differences. National and world leaders have read from the Bible, the Torah, and quoted the Koran. To read more, please click here."
Tells me all I need to know. I bet they don't preach the Gospel. You you never hear of grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, based on Scripture alone.
Putting the Holy Scriptures up with the Koran? Blasphemous.
Our politics have become so polarized and corrupted that a president of the United States cannot even attend an event devoted to drawing people closer to God and bridge partisan and cultural divides without being lectured about his policies.
Last Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Dr. Ben Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a 2008 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, broke with a 61-year-old tradition and publicly disagreed with some of the president's policies, such as "Obamacare," taxation and the national debt. Disclosure: I have attended this event since...
America is awash in sin, and it loves it. One cannot turn one's head to the left or to the right without being suffocated by it. Therefore, as it says in Romans, this nation is under judgement. Pray for it's leaders, pray for revival, but don't waste time in politics. If you want to make a difference, preach the gospel. Change men's hearts. That is the only solution. You can pass all the moral laws you like and it won't make a difference. Repentance and faith in Christ is the only solution.