Last Night Rick Perry traveled to Lynchburg Virginia to speak at Liberty University and kiss the ring of the ghost of Jerry Falwell founder L.U. and the Moral Majority.
Perry pauses politics, turns to faith in Liberty University speech
By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller
Perry said Americans need more Christian values in general. “It is important that [Christian leaders] stand in the pulpit every day and defend those values, those Christian values,” Perry said. “America is going to be guided by some set of values. The question is going go to be: Whose values?”
The Texas governor said he believes America will be guided by “the Christian values that this country was based upon.”
Perry's vision of a U.S. lead by "Christian leaders" imposing their notion of "Christian values" on the country is heavenly music to the ears of the Christian Right, but a its a prospect you and I would probably find absolutely chilling. I should add that the Christian Right's notion of "Christian Values" filters out much of the New Testament's emphasis on altruism IMHO.
This is a slap in the face for people of other faiths or no faith, and for many Christians who firmly support the separation of Church and State.
Does this mean that Rick Perry will ask Americans to pray together to solve the country's most pressing problems, like Perry did recently in Texas to end the devastating drought there?
I can just imagine Perry extolling Americans to pray together for millions of new jobs Americans are desperate for, or pray for the nations crumbling infrastructure to fix itself without spending any taxpayers' money.
So who are Perry's Religious backers? Preacher, fake historian and Beck buddy David Barton went on a Retreat with Perry last month.
faux historian
Rick Perry will spend Saturday meeting with one of his top donors, and a pseudo-historian who took part in 2010′s “Texas schoolbook massacre.” Good times.
Here’s a clip from my article at TheGrio:
While hundreds of thousands of Americans converge on the National Mall to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this weekend as the president dedicates a memorial to the slain civil rights leader, Rick Perry, the newly minted Republican Party presidential front-runner, will be attending a retreat with a man who believes King deserves no such honor.
The “call to action” retreat, reported by Politico’s Jonathan Martin earlier this month, will be hosted by a prominent San Antonio doctor, Jim Leininger, and his wife Cecilia. Among the co-hosts of the Fredericksburg, Texas event, which is being called a “get together to discuss the 2012 election,” rather than a fundraiser, will be David Barton, the founder of the evangelical Christian group WallBuilders.
It’s ironic that Perry will be spending the day before the King memorial dedication with a man who has said that King does not deserve credit for the revolutionary changes in civil rights law that took place in the 1950s and 60s.
Jim Leininger has bankrolled Rick Perrry's political career fron its start.
Here's what David Barton preaches:
"The Bible is so good on economic issues and specifically on taxation issues that we used to know what kind of taxes are good and what kind of taxes are bad." ~ David Barton
1. God hates Capital Gains Taxes
2. God hates Progressive Income Taxes
3. God hates Estate Taxes
4. God hates the Minimum Wage
Then there's Perry's buddy New Apostolic preacher Tom Schlueter of Arlington Texas.
This comes from what should be a must read article at the Texas Observer:
Rick Perry's Army of God
A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man.
The pastors told Perry of God’s grand plan for Texas. A chain of powerful prophecies had proclaimed that Texas was “The Prophet State,” anointed by God to lead the United States into revival and Godly government. And the governor would have a special role.
At the end of their meeting, Perry asked the two pastors to pray over him. As the pastors would later recount, the Lord spoke prophetically as Schlueter laid his hands on Perry, their heads bowed before a painting of the Battle of the Alamo. Schlueter “declared over [Perry] that there was a leadership role beyond Texas and that Texas had a role beyond what people understand,” Long later told his congregation.
Site of the Divine Revelation
Listen closely to Perry’s recent public statements and you’ll occasionally hear him uttering New Apostle code words. In June, Perry defended himself against Texas critics on Fox News, telling host Neil Cavuto that “a prophet is generally not loved in their hometown.
I'll conclude with something from my July 15th diary on Perry:
Scary Rick Perry embraces the Prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation movement
Rick Perry shows how completely he has embraced the message of the New Apostolic Reformation movement in a video on The Response website he made to promote his August 6th prayer gathering at Houston’s Reliant Stadium this: “With the economy in trouble, communities in crisis and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism, we need God's help. That's why I'm calling on Americans to pray and fast like Jesus did and as God called the Israelites to do in the Book of Joel.” The Bible's book of Joel is something that the New Apostolic Reformation movement puts a heavy emphasis on.