Perry Urges Worshipers to Disregard ‘Politically Correct Police,’ Take Faith Into Public Arena

Well, Mr. Perry, people of faith can and do bring their faith into the ‘public arena’ all the time without being criticized for it. When criticism arises is when they try to make aspects of their faith public POLICY or try to make it part of official government activities.

Yes let us set up a Christo-Facist Oligarchy.

As a United Methodist, I find it painful to have any sort of affiliation with Rick Perry. What’s ironic about his bluster is a) he has a history of almost nonexistent tithing, and b) he has no problem with breaking the Sabbath by pigging out at commercial restaurants. Don’t restaurant employees deserve a day off?

You know, if there is one thing that has infected this country like a vile, nasty virus is political correctness. May the next generation see it for the joke that it is and do away with it completely.

Ok Perry, I’ll go for it. I have faith that the vast majority of folks aren’t dumb enough to vote for you in the primary let alone in the presidential election!

Turn out the lights. The party’s over.

Thank God for Rick Perry putting his faith front and center where it needs to be, since this is One Nation Under God. The Bible says “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD”, and in the past that applied to this nation and the nation was blessed in the past. RICK PERRY FOR PRESIDENT!!

Evangelicals want the government to provide them with the property upon which to practice their religion, and the money to pay for it. Does that sound like “small government” conservatism to you?

Perry has his way, we end up with a religion war.

Somebody’s values are going to be installed—-really? How about making decisions based on good ol’ fashion logic, reasoning and facts. You rented a stadium to pray for rain instead of making a sound logical water plan for your state. You have areas of fresh water that are so polluted it is unusable, you have an ocean you could do desalinization plants on, but eh, too hard to come up with a logical plan, maybe I’ll pray and Jesus will solve all my problems for me while I doubt climate change because I refuse to read one single scientific study on it. I’m all for persons of faith, but not their insistence that faith be used as an excuse for laziness and willful ignorance as in Perry’s case.

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD”,——and give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. I dont recall Jesus telling anyone to get into politics, and He, himself, Jesus, did not try to take over politics. I really don’t understand why Christians pretend Jesus was interested in so many topics to which He just was not. Gays, abortion, and politics. Jesus was NOT into any of these and NEVER told his followers to do anything about them either. Yet evangelicals act as though they were given marching orders from the man himself. Folks, the only marching orders you received was not to wear your faith for show, to care about the poor and sick, and to do unto others as you would have them done unto you. Oh, and when you have no sin, THEN you may cast a stone.

I am fed up with this stuff, what they are talking about has nothing to do with being capable of being the president of The United States. For those who feel that the bible is more important than the constitution, or even belongs in our government, I will say it first, please Texas, leave the union. What you do in you schools, your politics, your prisons and your churches is too different and insulting to the rest of the country. You spend all of your political fodder on what liberals do in their bedrooms, and you feel you should regulate it. I will vote to support you creating your own country, I will support you having a government led by your church, I just ask you to keep it to yourselves (and please understand the one thing we do not need from you is Perry.

We hope governments across the Middle East do not adopt Sharia Law after their uprising. We hope their people will become free from such religious ties. Why should we, the US, demand our government be tied so closely to religion, as well? Whether it is gays getting married, abortion rights, or the teachings of creation, it should be up to the individual. Just like how we fear governments adopting Sharia Law; I fear our government having such close ties to any religion. Even if it is Christian.

Biblical principles – Be honest, don’t steal, don’t murder, pay your taxes, stay out of debt, help the poor, if you will not work you shall not eat………. Sounds good to me.

It’s really sad the GOP has allowed their party to be hijacked by these right wing Bible thumpers that mean no good for our country. I am a Christian, but I understand that if somebody disagrees with me particularly in a public forum, that’s their choice. I don’t want to cram my beliefs down their throat and I don’t want their religion pushed on me. Do you honestly think this country would have half the problems it does if it just practiced the most BASIC biblical concepts like the 10 Commandments, and I’m just talking about the so called Christians living by example. How about Rick Perry living the 2nd Commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself? I recall a picture of him and Ron Paul during a break in one of the debates. He was all but about to tackle Dr. Paul. You didn’t need to have sound, you can tell by Perry’s face and actions he was not about to show any love that time. Same goes for Bachmann. They’d rather kill off a nation of brown and black faces who speak and believe differently, than sit down and speak diplomatically and resolve differences like human beings.Sorry GOP and you in particular Perry, your actions speak louder than words.

He’s going to say whatever he thinks voters want to hear. None of these guys have any allegiences other than to money. Nice photo though. Looks like he’s ready to go out and throw the ten commandments on someone.

I am becoming more and more embarassed about being a Texan. Our Governor, who has been our governor WAY TOO long….suddenly found his “biblical charge” when it gained popularity. Our country was founded on “religous freedom” not freedom to just be a Christian. If he thinks God is talking to him…he needs to have his hearing checked!

I wonder if people realize how incredibly stupid this sounds to a person of no religion.

I mistrust those who make their particular religious faith central to their bids to be their party’s presidential, or for that matter, candidacy for any public office. Freedom to worship — or not — is a core tenet to the Constitution of the United States and why the Founding Fathers and their antecedents came here in the first place.

Faith is a very personal matter; organized religion is, no matter which beliefs are trumpeted, exclusionary. When a candidate uses every opportunity to remind the electorate that his alleged religious beliefs have, do and will guide his/her governance should that person be elected, the alarm bells are deafening.

This is a secular nation and the very diversity of its population is what has made us great. We are a democracy. We see what theocracy means. All we have to do is look at Iran, Egypt, Iraq, etc. to see the tragedy insularity brings to a nation, especially so when the various sects within any given religion are at war with one another.

LOGICNOTHUFF- Don’t read in too much into it. It’s in ‘In God We Trust’ because no person, temporal thing, or faction deserves it. For us to do so, undermines our Liberty. In generic terms; God is interpreted as something to answer to or aspire to have or please. As long as God is not temporally collectively defined as a living person, specific thing, or faction then we will maintain our diversity, uniqueness and maintain enough self doubt to allow others their liberty of Faith or pursuit of excellence or happiness.

Please report these churches to the IRS. They are participating in a political campaign and thus are no longer tax exempt 501(c)(3) organizations. They are free to participate in the political arena but must abide by the laws of this country.

Perry is not only one of the dumbest guys in Texas, but also one of the most corrupt. He is a disgrace to thinking people in Texas!!!

“Biblical principles” – Well, how about that one that says you cannot eat shellfish, pork, rabbits, blood and certain birds of prey but you CAN eat locusts. (Leviticus). Or the one says you shall not wear a garment mingled of linen and wool. (Leviticus again). Nor should you shave. Or there’s the one about how anything a menstruating woman sits on or touches is impure for seven days. Oh, and if you’re in a fight and your wife grabs the testicles of another man to help you out, her hand may be cut off.

Menawhile logigsgood, EVERY strong moral imperative in the Bible predates Christianity and occurs in almost every religion. In fact, the best, most empathic, people I know are the practising Buddhists. For you letting people who cannot work, starve is one of the Bible’s good ones. Certainly not for me.

Even rats have empathy. It doesn’t come from a big rat in the sky.

It cracks me up when people say, “The Bible says ……” And then they just let the statement stand on its own, as if the Bible cannot be wrong. Well, the Bible is wrong about a lot of things. Jesus himself said mustard seeds are the smallest of all seeds (Matthew 13:31-32). But that’s not true. And what about the places where the Bible contradicts itself (for example the genealogies of Jesus found in Matt & Luke)? It would take many books just to point out all the historical errors and internal contradictions of the Bible. So why do people continue to throw around quotes from a silly book that is nothing more than a patchwork of ancient legends and superstitions?

People have to realize that if they decide to predicate their political opinions on religious grounds, then their religion necessarily becomes “fair game” in political dialogue. Those disagreeing with their political opinions will need to argue that their religion is wrong–and they may not be gentle in making that point. As people tend to take offense when their religion is attacked, things could get ugly. Which, come to think of it, is one basic reason we have generally tried to conduct political dialogue on religiously neutral ground common to all.

People use “faith” to mask their ignorance. Perry is one of them. The scary thing is that he wants to president of the United States.

RAGGMOPP–I love that quote! MinorKey–I completely agree.

LOGICNOTHUFF–> the “no” part in your name should be in front of logic! Rick Perry is a moron! Even worse than George W. and you would vote for him just because he says a bunch of religious propaganda??? See, this is why we have politicians in office that shouldn’t be there and do nothing to help the majority of Americans.

How about the scripture they all seem to conveniently forget. Mark 8:36-37. 36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Rick and friends have a tendency to sell out to the highest bidder.

Cos, you mentioned that to a person with no faith, Perry’s idea sounds incredibly stupid. As a Christian, his idea sounds pretty dumb to me, too.
Religion is a personal choice and somewhat dictates my rules of behavior but not someone else’s! Freedom of religion and lack of persecution for believing in a minority religion is so important. Perry’s idea of religion being ‘in your face’ is just plain wrong and harmful.

Obviously Perry is not a follower of Christ or he would have given away all his possesions and worked to help the poor as Jesus commands numerous times in the Gospels. Also he would not have signed more death warrants THAN ANYONE ELSE IN US HISTORY.

Jesus also commands to treat religion and politics separately, as did several of the founding fathers. But Rick Perry’s beliefs are more important than theirs.