Friday, August 26, 2011

Rahm Has Prayer Breakfast With 200 Clergy: Emanuel Wants Preachers to Give Sermons on Benefits of Longer Public School Day

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel stepped up pressure to fulfill his campaign vow of a longer school day and year by holding a prayer breakfast with 200 clergy at U.S. Cellular Field. There, he asked ministers to use the power of their pulpit this Sunday “to specifically speak about the need for a longer school day and school year.”

Some 400 ministers have signed a petition favoring the idea, CPS officials say.
You could imagine what the liberal media would say if white evangelical Christians were involved in this story.