Participants included Pastor Joel Hunter of Northland, A Church Distributed, who delivered the opening prayer at the prayer breakfast; the Rev. Otis Moss of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, who delivered the sermon; Christian singer/songwriter Carlos Whittaker; Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who led the closing prayer; civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton; civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery; Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; and Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Obama thanked the Christian leaders for their work ...