{"id":5396,"date":"2011-07-15T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2011-07-15T02:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T09:27:15","slug":"an-unholy-church-of-pastor-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/15\/an-unholy-church-of-pastor-president\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unholy Church of Pastor President?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How would you like for the President of the United States to consider our nation to be an extreme right wing church, and himself, the pastor?  Perhaps he would change our nation\u2019s name from the USA to the First Church of Talibangelical Teabuggery, considering that this would be Pastor President is none other than Texas\u2019 infamous Rick Perry.  Now here\u2019s the scary part.  Even though he has not even declared, there is a significant chance that he could be the Republican nominee.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"PerryHat\"Employing deeply religious language that national experts say affords both power and peril for his political career, Gov. Rick Perry in late May told a group of East Texas business leaders that he was "called to the ministry" at age 27, suggested that the governor’s office was his pulpit and that God put him "in this place at this time to do his will."<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to a transcript of the private meeting, organized to raise funds for Perry’s Aug. 6 "day of prayer and fasting" at Reliant Stadium, the governor stated that property rights, government regulation and a "legal system that’s run amok" were threatening the American way of life and "it’s time to just hand it over to God and say ‘God, you’re gonna have to fix this.’ "<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Of course, when Perry says \u201chand it over to God\u201d, he means violating the establishment clause<\/em> to make Republican supply-side pseudo-Christianity our state religion and make their false gospel of bigotry, hate, homophobia, intolerance and racism the law of the land.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow explains how Perry may well be the candidate with Republican Party establishment backing and the perils his views would bring in the general election.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Unless you share Perry\u2019s vision for America, failing to vote or protest voting will help guarantee it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How would you like for the President of the United States to consider our nation to be an extreme right wing church, and himself, the pastor?  Perhaps he would change our nation\u2019s name from the USA to the First Church of Talibangelical Teabuggery, considering that this would be Pastor President is none other than Texas\u2019 […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}