The Los Angeles Times ran an article about a group that prays professionally, hoping for an end to gay marriage in California:
[Missy] Huff and about three dozen others in their 20s and early 30s have spent every waking minute since Sept. 24 at a San Diego County megachurch praying for the passage of Proposition 8, which would amend the California Constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.
They are the fervent, ecstatic center of a statewide prayer vigil and fast that religious leaders say includes thousands of people asking for God’s help in passing the measure.
But what distinguishes Huff and many of the young people she prays with at Skyline Church here is that after the election, they will not return to normal life.
Praying and fasting is their job.
They have forsaken traditional lives to live in communal homes—supported by donations—and pray. All day, every day.
Read the full article here.