Where is the prayer breakfast?
Posted February 17, 2007
It's an annual dead-of-winer bipartisan tradition. In January, Kentucky's top elected official (Democrat or Republican) borrows the Frankfort Convention Center, at taxpayer's expense, and hosts a Governor's Prayer Breakfast. Food is consumed, prayers are proffered, and soon thereafter allegations are made by the Kentucky Council of Churches that the event wasn't sufficiently diverse.
Gov. Patton prayer event leaves some out (Jan. 2001)
Frankfort (AP) — Representatives of the Catholic and Jewish faiths and the largest Kentucky organization of churches said they were not invited to Gov. Paul Patton's annual “interfaith prayer breakfast.” ... “I am surprised the governor's office did not notify the organization that represents over half of the churches in the commonwealth of Kentucky,” said the Rev. Nancy Jo Kemper, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches.
Non-Christians Not Represented At Governor's Prayer Breakfast (Jan. 2006)
Frankfort (AP) -- A prayer breakfast held by Gov. Ernie Fletcher should have been more representative of different faiths, some religious leaders said. All of those who prayed, read scripture and spoke at this year's breakfast were Christians. "If they're calling it the governor's prayer breakfast, there's something sort of amiss if it's not representative of all the people of Kentucky," said Nancy Jo Kemper, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches.
But this year the breakfast has apparently either been delayed or derailed. There's no mention of it on-line that I can find. If it happened, it apparently flew completely under the radar (and I doubt that would happen -- especially with a primary election looming and the incumbent governor fighting for his political life.)
Paging Mark Nickolas -- the uberblogger at BlueGrassReport. Where's the prayer?
Good on ya. The MO is all Fletcher, isn't it? Pissing off Catholics and Jews is not going to help you in Louisville, NKY, Owensboro, or anywhere else where pockets of the faithful reside. A moron and a political tool.