A government accountability watchdog has asked President Obama and members of Congress to skip this year's so-called "National Prayer Breakfast", on February 4. The event is sponsored by a controversial group made famous in Jeff Sharlet's expose, "The Family". Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington makes the case:
The breakfast, designed to appear as if government-sanctioned, actually serves as a meeting and recruiting event for the shadowy Fellowship Foundation.
The Fellowship, also known as “The Foundation” and “The Family,” is run by Doug Coe, a spiritual advisor to past government officials who uses the organization to push his unorthodox brand of Christianity within government circles.
