UPDATE: With comments from Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler.

What’s being billed as a Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast has some LGBT activists ready to gag.

Despite pleas from local LGBT activists, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler is forging ahead with plans to attend an evangelical prayer breakfast this week.

Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Dean Trantalis said he will attend the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast next week.

Speaking to a packed house Friday morning at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center, Mayor Jack Seiler urged attendees of the 55th annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast to come together for the greater good.