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Suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will give the opening prayer at the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast on Friday.

(Julie Bennett/jbennett@al.com)

Suspended Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore will speak at the Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast on Friday at Trump International Hotel in Washington.

Rev. Merrie Turner, hostess of the event, said Moore will give the opening prayer.

Turner said she has known Moore since participating with him on a tour with his Ten Commandments monument in 2004.

Turner said Alabama Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom Parker will also speak.

Turner said she expects Moore to speak about the scriptural mandate to Christians to pray for their leaders, including the president.

"It is our honor to pray for the office of the Presidency, for revival in the United States of America, and to invoke His blessings on all the people," Turner said in a news release.

The Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast Inc., a non-partisan and non-denominational organization, has been praying for the office of the President since 1993, according to the news release.

In September, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended Moore for the remainder of his term because of an administrative order Moore wrote to probate judges that said they still had a duty to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

His issued the administrative order in January, some six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states had to allow and recognize gay marriage.

Moore is appealing his suspension. He has said he was not telling probate judges to defy federal courts, but advising them on the status of an Alabama Supreme Court order on same-sex marriage.