Rick Perry Agrees With Wife, He Has Been Brutalized for Christian Faith

This is such a hit piece. Perry didn’t agree about being “brutalized” for being a Christian. He said he agreed with his wife that he’s the most conservative and IS a christian. What classless reporting.

“Rick Perry Agrees With Wife, He Has Been Brutalized for Christian Faith”

Well it’s your own fault, Mitt. You are not the right ‘flavor’ of Christian, for the hard-Right evangelicals. Either get yourself a thicker skin, or become an evangelical Christian. Because THAT crowd believes in ‘freedom of religion’ ONLY if that religion is theirs…………

It was George Stephanopoulos who coined the “brutalized” descriptor, not Perry.

It is obvious that this reporting and what actually was said by Gov. Perry is just another biased report of Gov. Perry. When is our media and you George Stephanopoulos, going to stop sneaking in your own agenda into the actual report. We are not ignorant…..and we can hear and read. Shame on you George!

you know people wouldn’t have a problem if we didn’t have to hear about his preferences about religion, all the time. this is why our country is so polarized and whether the fact is true or not, the perry’s need to recognize this truth that people truly believe in a separation of church and state and this is totally what is wrong with our politics. could be that some politicians will get their way someday and really try to shove their choice of religion down everyone’s throats and control everyone and then it will be a repeat of just why people left great britain in the first place…so that religion wouldn’t be forced on them…why can’t they see this? because their arrogance just won’t let them. that is why people are sick and tired of their tilt in reality…it has nothing to do with our economy, our freedoms our charitable attitude…it is they want to force their preference of religion on the country…
they suck!!

With the daily tactics of politicians to lie, cheat and steal, how can anyone justify a connection between religion and politics? They are antagonistic, they are oxymora. If there is a politician touting religious credentials then be very afraid as most of these so-called “religious” politicians will surely lie, cheat and steal our way of life.

We humans have been gifted with the ability to think, to decide, to reason. We are rational beings. To be subservient and submissive is irrational. To the religious fanatics who think they must be ‘subservient’ to be a good christian, you are being irrational and you are insulting your god.

Perry’s religious fanaticism mirrors the country’s inability to comprehend the depth of evil to which individuals and communities may sink when they try to play the role of God in history. “There is no greater human presumption than to read the mind of the Almighty, and no more dangerous individual than the one who has convinced himself that he is executing the Almighty’s will.” Reinhold Neibuhr.

Sea; I listened to the video. After reading the story I guess he “agrees”.

‘Conservative’ is a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, not a religion.
Posted by: Minorkey1 | October 14, 2011, 10:04 am.

Like that matters to Republicans. To them, they’re interchangeable………..

Smirking Rick Perry’s wife is now whining about the way she and her husband are being treated by the media because of their religious beliefs. According to her, the only reason her husband is running for president was because she received a direct message from God that he ought to run and it was her insistence that caused him to enter the race. Why does she not ask her God why her husband has now plunged in the polls, and why Rick is now being beaten easily by a man with the unfortunate Biblical name of Cain. Could it be some sort of retribution for all those executions Rick approved of that God is now tactfully telling him and his wife that they were wrong.

Mr. Perry likes to tout how many jobs he has created as governor of Texas and says that Americans are looking for a president who “really knows how to create jobs, not somebody who has a catchy slogan.” But a big part of the Republican (and conservative) philosophy is that government doesn’t create jobs! What hypocrisy.

In any event, Christians are the current group to hate. It’s apparently acceptable if you are on the giving end.

I’d be very satisfied if NONE of the candidates speak about THEIR religion, it has NOTHING to do with them being our President. In Perry’s case, he began his debut into the National scene by holding a “prayer” meeting in a stadium – is he a preacher? Nope. Then he’s always talking about creationism as if he plans to get the whole country to believe what HE does. I don’t feel we need such a man leading our Nation even If he HAD half a brain which he does NOT.

One of the main reason we have so much gridlock in Washington is because of the large increase of Evangelical Christians who now hold office. Their reason of running for office is to take control of the Government and through legislation force all of America to follow their religious beliefs. In reality the Evangelical religion is nothing more than a hate group who preaches hate among different sectors of the Americans and anyone who different in their believes from them. This is why the founding fathers of this nation wanted the Government to have separation of State and Religion. That is how this nation stated as people from the old world counties came to America to get away from persecution of religion.

If he were jewish or muslim this would not be an issue. Seems like liberals only pick on the Christian faith.

I heard someone call Palin aand Perry ” stupid” and I agree that every one is entitled to his or her opionion. The “stupid” people can be educated by surround themselves in a political enviroment and they can expose themselves to get familiar with a broader spectrum of the political arena. We can enlighten the stupid (?)people however we cannot change the unethical and twisted mind set of the people. These are two different things. An articulated politician with a crooked mind would lead us into a disaster economy for his own good. Solyndra scandal is nothing but a slush funds scheme for political financial game. The fast and furrious operation is anther living proof of what a twisted mind can do harm to his own people for his scheme to put gun control proposal under his power.

The apple does not fall far from the tree. Dirty and crooked politician’s mind set is based on his culture, education and the blood line that cannot be changed. Now, that’s detrimental to the country.

I’m SICK of ALL these “Religious” candidates spouting off about their beliefs. Keep it PRIVATE because no one CARES. If anything, I would vote AGAINST people like Mr. Perry partly because of his USE of religion but MOSTLY because he’s a dumb cowboy and I’ve seen one too many like that already.

“his campaign has been “brutalized” because of his Christianity” — The standard response from any overbearing, shove it in your face and it’s YOUR problem and you’re attacking Christianity if you attack me’ attitude of the oblivious religious right. To Clarify things: PERRY – we don’t care that you are Christian. We care whether or not you a Presidential material. AND YOU ARE NOT.

It’s real tiring hearing Christians or Catholics say they are being picked on & for that matter Perry is saying the same thing. Like these people don’t put down other cultures & religions when they talk. Hypocrites. And yes, i”m a Christian. But I don’t get worshiping a pope of mary or gilding everything & big tall hats. My God doesn’t need money. My God doesn’t want everything gilded, he doesn’t want me to wear gig weird hats. He just wants everyone to treat each other like they are his, in which they are. We all belong to God. Did you that? So Christians & Catholics if you think you’re being picked on? SO WHAT. You’re supposed to have faith & let your works shine. & no that doesn’t mean living your life to rail against abortion, that’s small minded & is more about you that the fetus. Just be simple & real & love & help one another. Politics is not spiritual.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness… I’n glad he’s a christian. But, it won’t be the reason he doesn’t get elected. I don’t think people are that shallow. We want a president who is GOOD on all counts, therefore, I’m voting for Cain.

Hege1321 | October 14, 2011 — Check the facts Hedge, repubs give way more to charity and other humane causes then libs. According to Charitynavigator.org “The fact is that self-described “conservatives” in America are more likely to give—and give more money—than self-described “liberals.”These differences go beyond money. Take blood donations, for example. In 2002, conservative Americans were more likely to donate blood each year, and did so more often, than liberals. People who said they were “conservative” or “extremely conservative” made up less than one-fifth of the population, but donated more than a quarter of the blood. To put this in perspective, if political liberals and moderates gave blood like conservatives do, the blood supply in the United States would surge by nearly half.

I haven’t seen anyone attack or single out Rick Perry, because he is a Christian. If you have any evidence to the contrary please post, but all the candidates are Christians or count themselves as Christians. Heck Herman Cain is an ordained Baptist minister.

Anita Perry commented that Rick Perry got the call from God in the Houston Cron. I wonder if God gave her a call about her luxury vacations and $10,000 a month mansion compliments of the people of Texas. I’m glad Perry is running for president that way the people of Texas that keep reelecting him will see what a hipocrite evanglical he really is. He is all for the rich non for the poor.

“He’ll argue that if we tap into our own resources such as “opening up those federal lands and water,” cutting back on regulations and rebuilding the Environmental Protection Agency, we can create 1.2 million new jobs.” Translation – Let’s sell Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc. and gut the EPA.

I don’t understand how any of these people running for president can say “I’m only a conservative!” or “I”m left all the way!” This country isn’t all conservative or liberal, damn it, and every one of us deserves to be represented! Calling this place a democracy is a farce, one party gets to rule for 4-8 years with half the population NOT being represented, and that half gets to see their tax dollars wasted! “Compromise” is not a dirty word, its how this nation should be run. As far as I’m concerned, if your not a moderate, your not really an American who believes in Democracy!!!

Perry’s is taking his “jobs plan” right from the Chinese — get rid of all regulations that companies have to deal with so they can make more money. If we do not worry about the heath of the workers, and the health of the enviornment, and the quality of product we are producing, we could let the stock holders of companies make more money. Look at the quality of life of the workers in Chinese factorys and the tainted products that they have shipped here. Look at the ecological disaster in factory towns in China. This is the jobs plan that Perry is promoting.

Brutalized?? Give me a break. You started this by espousing your religious beliefs to win votes. When they call you on it, you cry foul. What a hypocrite.

We need more people being “brutalized” for their religion, regardless of what their religion is. In the United States Of America, you are free to believe in whatever imaginary man in the sky you like, or whatever other form of nutjobbery suits your fancy. No one is going to put you in jail or just outright kill you for not believing in the right imaginary man. This isn’t Iran, at least not yet. Other sane, rational people, however, are equally free to ridicule you mercilessly. That’s the real reason that so many so-called Christians are jumping to the defense of Romney… they are utterly terrified that if they allow ridicule of one “faith”, whatever the reason, it opens up ALL faiths to such ridicule, including their own, because NONE of them have a leg to stand on in any kind of reasoned, factual debate. If you had a grown adult trying to run for the leadership of the most powerful nation on Earth, and they claimed to believe, REALLY believe, in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy, sane people would rightly consider him to to be a complete nutcase and totally unqualified to hold such a position. But when they REALLY believe in an imaginary man in the sky who supposedly created the universe and dictates morality to human beings with eternal damnation and torment as the consequences for non-compliance, while always ensuring the maximum level of misery and suffering to “test your faith” in Him, well, that’s not completely insane at all, is it? Religion, ALL religion, is a mental illness. It’s not illegal in America to be insane, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re insane. Get out of the dark ages and into the 21st century, people!

Who defines who is more conservative than the next or who is more religious than the next. I have a friend who is an ordained Baptist minister, holds a Doctorate in Theology, reads and speaks Hebrew and Greek fluently and has studied the bible in its native tongues. He has students telling him who is more religious and challenges him with things that are in the Bible. His reply is bring in the verse the next class. Invariably they come back and say they could not find it, but their preacher told them it was in the Bible so it had to be.

I just love it when Christians claim persecution for their faith…

In a nation in which over 80% consider themselves Christian.

And at the same time, they “brutalize” NON-Christians (does anyone honestly believe that a candidate who did NOT profess to being a Christian would be electable? Despite the fact that the Constitution forbids any religious test to hold office.)

But see, the Bible tells them that they WILL be persecuted for their faith, so they HAVE to imagine that is the case (and often, CREATE situations in which this appears to be the case…newsflash: when you behave in an obnoxious manner and/or attempt to cram your religion down everyones’ throats, THEY DON’T LIKE YOU…it has nothing to do with your “faith” and everything to do with your tactics.)

I still have yet to see an electable Republican candidate. Tick-tock, people.

The Right is cannabalizing itself (which is WONDERFUL news for those of us who care about this country, imo).

Perry’s wife said, “We are being brutalized by our opponents, and by our own party. So much of that is, I think they look at him because of his faith. He is the only true conservative.” and Perry agreed with her. The words are theirs, not the reporters, not those of Stephanopoulos. Not bad reporting, or biased reporting. Anita Perry’s words, agreed to by her husband. Of course, she also blamed the Obama administration because their son “lost” his job…he quit, to work on his father’s campaign, and had to make a choice because of conflict of interest rules in place at the SEC. He worked at Deutsche Bank, and last year the SEC adopted rules limiting the political activity on the part of investment advisers. So he didn’t “lose” his job, he chose to quit, and teh regulation doesn’t seem to be out of line when one considers the potential for abuse when banking, investment advisors, and politics get too closely entertwined…

Oh well, Cain has his race card and now Perry has his religion card, republican loser politics as usual.

No more than his kind of people “brutalized” Obama for his. All of a sudden the shoe’s on the other foot and it pinches!

JR –”Oh well, Cain has his race card and now Perry has his religion card, republican loser politics as usual”— REPUBLICAN LOSER Politics?? Are you actually saying the DEMOCRATS haven’t played the race card ad nauseum since Obama was elected?? According to Dems if you disagree with Obama, you are a racist, if you are a member of the tea party you are a racist, conservative = racist… if you question the black panther scandal you’re racist, question Jeremiah Wright, you’re a racist… I haven’t seen Cain rely on his race to get a pass yet on anything, but I have seen Dems rely on race to bully the opposition CONTINUALLY…

He’s supposed to represent ALL of us. I don’t give a damn what his religion is, religion should stay out of politics. He did condones the baptists statements. He does not represent my conservative viewpoint. Bottom line….he’s a horses butt!

Perry isn’t the most concervative. He’s the most evangelical.
I was surprised to hear Perry say that Americans have a right to worship as they please. Most evangelicals don’t understand the First Amendment that well. Gingrich said that it allows Christians to practice their religion in public. He evidently knows as much about the Bill or Rights as Palin does about history.
Since most Americans perceive themselves to be Christian it is doubtful that they are persecuted because of their faith. Taliban evangelicals however are a different story. I hope the rest of America is as tired of them as I am.

I think this is Perry’s 1st venture into reality….he’s used to the good ol boy vacuum that is used here in podunk Texas. Mind you Austin is no fan…just the cuntry boys everywhere else. Perry is plastic….if you can’t tell that then maybe you’re plastic too. It’s not a good time for someone plastic to stand up & lead. We’re still recovering from the dark ages 2000-2008. No need for some plastic “i know the way’ BS. His eenrgy plan is to dig for Natural Gas?? Uh , that’s already being done around here , Ft Worth is being heavily mined. And there are definitely environment issues with Fracking. So mix more fracking with more deregulation & you will get Unrecoverable Natural Disaster. That is what we are heading to if these GOP wing nuts want to deregulate the industries, especially catering to their Big Pharma, Big Oil, Medical & Insurance CEOs. Of course these groups don’t care about the future. They (GOP) just are willing to do anything to make a buck in the United States again. I mean do we really have to watch penile erection dysfunction commercials every 15 minutes??? & the image of old people getting it own dancing in the heads of our children?? It’s sick if you let the $$(tail) wag the dog & that’s what they do. Christian? hummph…a fake one.

Cloud – really? Housewives of Orange County – plastic…not real. Not worth much. Wow! I didn’t think that would confuse anyone. I see plastic people all the time. They don’t seem real. I don’t recall using that term in 1972.

The sad part of this view is that Romney uses his religion to justify his own prejudices and discrimination and then cries when people call him on these views.

BRYAN: “This country isn’t all conservative or liberal . . .”

Right, just mostly conservative according to the last few years of Gallup polls measuring ‘U.S. Political Ideology’:

Conservative – 40%
Moderate – 35%
Liberal – 20%

BRYAN: “Calling this place a democracy is a farce, one party gets to rule for 4-8 years with half the population NOT being represented . . .”

Wrong. The population is always represented by its collective vote. You just don’t like the tied is turning against your left-wing.

BRYAN: “‘Compromise’ is not a dirty word, its how this nation should be run.”

Is that what you said after Obama and Democrats had control for 2 straight years? Compromise happens naturally when the elected officials represent the people that voted them into office.

BRYAN: “As far as I’m concerned, if your not a moderate, your not really an American who believes in Democracy!!!”

Moderates are nothing more than arrogant people who claim to be better than everyone else because they are indecisive and usually uninformed. Indecision isn’t a solution or an ideology, it’s nothing at all.