There seems to be some confusion and misinformation about Hillary's membership and participation in the Power Cult known as "The Fellowship" which is headed by Hillary's declared spiritual mentor, Doug Coe.
The Fellowship sponsors an annual event over three days called the "National Prayer Breakfast". Although The Fellowship holds this once-a-year event, it's separate from the regular, weekly sex-segregated Prayer Cell and Senate Breakfast Prayer meetings.
Hillary was in the sex-segregated Prayer Cells as first lady. Now that she's a Senator, she's graduated to the Weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast group. Again, this is not to be mixed up with the once a year National Prayer Breakfast.
Please do not allow yourself to get confused. The ANNUAL event called "National Prayer Breakfast" is sponsored/chaired by Senators but that does NOT mean those same Senators belong to the Fellowship or go to the regular, secretive weekly meetings.
Here's some historical and relevant info about The Fellowship, their WEEKLY Senate Prayer Group and the once a year NATIONAL Prayer Breakfast-
Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries. The Family maintains a closely guarded database of its associates, but it issues no cards, collects no official dues. Members are asked not to speak about the group or its activities.
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The Family's only publicized gathering is the National Prayer Breakfast, which it established in 1953 and which, with congressional sponsorship, it continues to organize every February in Washington, D.C. Each year 3,000 dignitaries, representing scores of nations, pay $425 each to attend. Steadfastly ecumenical, too bland most years to merit much press, the breakfast is regarded by the Family as merely a tool in a larger purpose: to recruit the powerful attendees into smaller, more frequent prayer meetings, where they can “meet Jesus man to man.”http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:Br6hspqdOTAJ:www.harpers.org/JesusPlusNothing.html.................................................................................
The truth is that the
Prayer Breakfast is perhaps the most bi-partisan, ecumenical, profoundly bland event in the Washington calendar. The Family likes it that way. As Coe, whom Time dubbed the "stealth persuader" in its list of the 25 most powerful evangelicals once put it, the Prayer Breakfast is "not even one tenth of one tenth of what we really do." Rather, the Family considers it a recruiting event: 4000 dignitaries attend the breakfast, some lesser number attend the three days of seminars for oil, banking, and defense execs (and the pols who love them) on the Jesus-plus-nothing approach to business and diplomacy, and a few of those graduate into prayer cells, modeled, according to the Family's internal documents, on a revolutionary vanguard, as I reported in a Rolling Stone profile of Family cell member (cellist? cellie?) Senator Sam Brownback:
"Communists use cells as their basic structure," declares a confidential Fellowship document titled "Thoughts on a Core Group." "The mafia operates like this, and the basic unit of the Marine Corps is the four-man squad. Hitler, Lenin and many others understood the power of a small group of people."
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There are many more, of course, not to mention thousands of American businesspeople, military officials and politicians who use the Prayer Breakfast and the three days of off-the-record events that follow as an opportunity to make special friends. But I couldn't tell you who they'll be this year, because the Family doesn't release a guest list.
Not that the press asks. I covered the 2003 National Prayer Breakfast for the Jewish Forward. To get in, I had to go through the White House Press Office. Which, of course, has nothing to do with the private, sectarian event. Except handling the press. And not very well, I might add -- at first, I was denied a press pass on the seemingly reasonable grounds that I was calling too late (the day before). So I asked who else would be representing the Jewish press at this ecumenical event. "Umm..." came the response. Soon after came a call back. I was in. In, and given my own private White House press office handler, no less, an evangelical shiksa instructed to help "the Jewish reporter" understand prayer.
To be fair, she was the only person there who asked tough questions ("How are you going to present this?" "You're going to include the fact that Senator Lieberman is here, right?" "Did you see Congressman Cantor? He's Jewish, you know"). The rest of the press corps dutifully sat through prayers from Bush and Condoleeza Rice and then made a run for it, eager to cover "politics," the big leagues, the stuff that matters. The rest of the Prayer Breakfast, and the deals it fosters, and the simultaneous Prayer Breakfasts held at U.S. military bases around the world -- the "iceberg," as Doug Coe once put it -- remained under the surface.
http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:ViYJZ9ws2yYJ:www.talk2action.org/story/2007/2/2/04835/29947/Front_Page/Everybody_Loves_Jesus
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