africa to asia and to discriminate, even advocating the execution of gays and lesbians. we may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are whether here in the united states or as hillary mentioned more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in uganda. that s one way to send a message to the kill the gays proponents in uganda and the americans who have influenced them. here are a couple other ways. a pair of washington groups, foreign policy in focus and a group called full equality now staged a protest outside the c street house last night on the eve of the national prayer breakfast, and a coalition of religious and gay rights groups put together an alternative to the national prayer breakfast this year. they called it the american prayer hour. it was held in more than a dozen cities across the country today.
deny the human rights of girls and women from the gulf to africa to asia and to discriminate, even advocating the execution of gays and lesbians. we may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are whether here in the united states or as hillary mentioned more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in uganda. that s one way to send a message to the kill the gays pro-ponents in uganda and the americans who have influenced them. here are a couple other ways. a pair of washington groups, foreign policy in focus, and a group called full equality now staged a protest outside the c street house last night on the eve of the national prayer breakfast and a coalition of religious and gay rights groups put together an alternative to the national prayer breakfast this year. they called it the american prayer hour. it was held in more than a dozen
whom i have known through the prayer breakfast, and expressed the strongest concerns about a law being considered in the pair lament of uganda. let s bring in jeff charlotte, contributing editor of harper s magazine and author of the book, the family, the secret fundamentalism at the heart of american power. we talked about this with you more than two years ago and did stories about the family and about the c street house and the prayer breakfast and now we see finally some attention at the national level. what do you think is being accomplished here? i think what happened today was tremendous, and i should clarify the prayer breakfast is sponsored by the fellowship. the ugandans who support this bill, but the american oppose it. they gave the platform to hillary and obama to take a strong stance against it. it may be a little too late, the
every u.s. president has attended these and seen as nonpartisan if vaguely insulting to the idea of between church and state. the family sponsorship of the prayer breakfast seems less innocuous even beyond the sex scandals and cover ups of the c street house and two family members behind the kill the gays bill both said in receipt weeks they were planning on traveling to the u.s. to attend this year s prayer breakfast. alongside president obama and all the other dignitary who is were expected to make appearances. we can report tonight that despite their claims, neither will actually be attending the prayer breakfast. the department confirmed that for us late today. even without those two there, should the president of the united states still be planning on attending the family s prayer event. joining us now is someone who thinks not. melanie sloan is the director of
it would execute people for the crime of being gay. now the law is proposed in another country in uganda, but it s connected to american politics. when republican governor mark sanford of south carolina confessed tearfully this summer to his extramarital affair, he said he d received counseling on the matter at a christian fellowship house in washington called c street. when senator john ensign also confessed to his extramarital affair this summer, it emerged that he too received counseling about his affair at c street. he was living at the c street house when the affair was going on. when former congress republican chip pickering was named in his wife s lawsuit over his extramarital affair, it was alleged in that case too congressman pickering was living at the c street house while allegedly having his affair. the c street house is technically a church, at least it was listed that way for tax purposes by the family, which is a secretive religious group that operating the c