National Day of Prayer Hijacking, Part 2

As if there needs to be any more evidence to prove that under Shirley Dobson’s leadership, the National Day of Prayer has been hijacked to serve the partisan political purposes of Christian conservatives, I just came across this little Q&A on the Focus on the Family web site:

Question

When is the National Day of Prayer? Where can I get more information about the event?

Answer

The 2010 National Day of Prayer (NDP) will take place on Thursday, May 6. Shirley Dobson continued as Chairman of the NDP Task Force; Dr. Franklin Graham is the Honorary Chairman for 2010.  

The National Day of Prayer has its own Web site (www.nationaldayofprayer.org) that offers information about how the day is observed across the United States.

The first paragraph is highly misleading. There is no Honorary Chairman for the National Day of Prayer. It is a position that has been created solely by the NDP Task Force and thus Graham is only the Honorary Chairman for the National Day of Prayer Task Force’s observance of the National Day of Prayer, which is a completely different matter.

The second paragraph is completely untrue. The domain name nationaldayofprayer.org is owned by the “National Day of Prayer Committee” which operates out of the same building as “Focus on the Family” and runs the NDP Task Force solely for the benefit of conservative “Bible-believing” Christians. The site has no information about how the day is observed across the United States unless you happen to be a right-wing moral majority type of Christian.

I filled out the feedback form to (politely) point out the erroneous information in the answer.  It will be very interesting to see if they do anything about it.