Should President Obama attend the National Prayer Breakfast that’s scheduled for March? Rachel Maddow discussed the question yesterday with her guest, Melanie Sloan, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). [see video clip after the break] Every president since Eisenhower has
attended the annual political-religious event. The White House yesterday told TRMS that President Obama will attend this year’s event. But this year’s prayer breakfast presents unique challenges for the president or other politicians who attend the event. 
That’s because the group that sponsors the event is tied in a number of ways to the Ugandan politicians who have most strongly supported his country’s ‘kill-gays’ bill, a proposed law that would impose draconian penalties—possibly including death in some cases—for the “crime” of being gay.