Evangelist Franklin Graham is calling on people of faith to pray for President Obama and his advisors in the wake of Graham's rejection as a speaker at the Pentagon early next month. One Pentagon advisor says that rejection wouldn't have happened while George W. Bush was in the White House.

Last week, after the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other groups complained about statements Graham had made about Islam, the Army announced he was no longer invited to be the lead speaker at a May 6 Pentagon service held in conjunctions with the National Day of Prayer. His earlier comments about the Muslim faith were "not appropriate," stated an Army spokesman...