Most Americans do not accept these extreme views. It’s bad enough that Perry is using his government office to promote a prayer rally. It’s even worse that the one he is promoting excludes the majority of Americans. But worst of all is that he is partnering with the radical fringe of the Religious Right to bring it about.
Yet Perry is not only moving forward, he has invited the nation’s other 49 governors to endorse the fundamentalist event! (As of this writing, Govs. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana have said they will attend.)
Above Quote from Progressive Muckraker, June 20, 2011
Rick Perry agrees with other Religious Right leaders that even though the majority of Americans are Christian they are somehow being oppressed and not permitted to practice their religion???
This is blatantly false . But using this sort of victimization language and hate mongering and demonizing of all Non-Christian Americans appeals to a rather significant proportion of American Christians.
They get themselves in a dither over the principle of "The Separation of Church and State" and the various Supreme Court of The US decisions upholding this principle.
The Evangelical Fundamentalists get upset because public schools for instance do not begin their days with a "Christian Prayer" or they get upset because government buildings are not permitted to post the Ten Commandments inside or outside such buildings .
These are just symbolic issues they fight in order to get public attention for their own theocratic /Dominionists agenda.
They believe that only good "Born-again Evangelical Fundamentalists" whom they believe to be The Real Americans should be permitted to hold public offices or work for the federal and state governments.
The promo for Governor Rick Perry's the event sounds like videos for Ron Luce's evangelical militant Battle Cry!
Being a governor isn't he crossing the line between Religion and Politics and what he is promoting is not just Christianity but a rather extreme evangelical fundamentalist theology which is anti-gay, anti-abortion in any circumstances , anti-Islam claiming Islam is of the Devil, anti-premarital sex , pro-war, pro-death penalty , pro-corporate America , anti-public schools .
Promo Video for RickPerry's Call to Prayer "The Response"
Making America into a Real Christian Country??? Theocracy anyone???
Here's another article exposing Rick Perry's Evangelical Fundamentalist Religious Right extremist agenda and his so called non-partisan but Christian only " The Response" Prayerfest 2011. From Progressive Muckraker, June 20, 2011
On August 6th, Texas governor and self proclaimed prophet, Rick Perry, is holding a big ol' tent revival in Houston, TX. He rented out Reliant Stadium and calls his event "The Response". Rick's prayer meeting is sponsored by a conservative evangelical Christian group, The American Family Association. Unfortunately for Rick Perry, the Southern Poverty Law Center has some not so flattering things to say about the AFA:
American Family AssocationTUPELO, Miss.www.afa.netBest known for leading boycotts of advertisers who support "indecency" in the mass media (including the supposedly cocaine-snorting Mighty Mouse), the Rev. Donald Wildmon, a former Methodist minister, has led a series of religious-right groups since 1976.
Appointed by Alan Sears (see Alliance Defense Fund) to the Meese Commission on Pornography in 1985, Wildmon successfully urged the removal of Playboy and Penthouse from some 17,000 convenience stores. But another favorite target has been homosexuality.
In the 1980s, Wildmon succeeded in getting ads pulled from shows like "Thirtysomething," added to Wildmon's list of "Trash TV" because its plot included a gay romance. The American Family Association (AFA), created by Wildmon in 1977 as the National Federation for Decency but renamed AFA in 1988, has built an empire — a 200-station radio network, about 100 employees and a monthly AFA Journal sent to 180,000 people — largely on the basis of anti-gay appeals.
In one October 2004 article, the AFA Journal suggests that gay influences are leading to a "grotesque culture" that will include "quick encounters in the middle school boys' restroom." In its 1994 booklet Homosexuality in America, the AFA claims "[p]rominent homosexual leaders and publications have voiced support for pedophilia, incest, sadomasochism, and even bestiality."
AFA's direct-mail appeals are particularly shrill. "For the sake of our children and society, we must OPPOSE the spread of homosexual activity! Just as we must oppose murder, stealing, and adultery!" says one such recent fundraising letter. "Since homosexuals cannot reproduce, the only way for them to 'breed' is to RECRUIT! And who are their targets for recruitment? Children!"
AFA has 21 state directors, including California's Scott Lively, co-author of The Pink Swastika, a book that claims "homosexuals are the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities" (see also Making Myths).
In late 2004, the AFA called for a boycott of Proctor & Gamble, calling it "one of the largest promoters of the homosexual agenda," partly because it advertises on TV shows "Will and Grace" and "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." By late January 2005, AFA claimed more than 380,000 people had signed its boycott petition.
With Wildmon reportedly in shaky health, his son, Tim, now serves as AFA president.
Bryan Fischer is the director of issue analysis for government and public policy for the American Family Association. Bryan Fischer, among other thing, is a raging homophobe, and despises Native Americans:Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.
This is what Bryan Fischer believes about the Medal of Honor:
We have feminized the Medal of Honor.According to Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal, every Medal of Honor awarded during these two conflicts has been awarded for saving life. Not one has been awarded for inflicting casualties on the enemy. Not one. (quote from Fischer's blog on AFA)
Christian, right? I mean Patton was as much like Jesus as anyone...
Compare this BattleCry! Promo to Rick Perry's above promo for Prayer Fest 2011 Response.
Here's a slick video a promo for a Teen Mania ? battle Cry/Acquire the fire... weekend of ministry , prophecy with Christian Rock blasting away and preachers dressed in blue jeans preaching fire and brimstone the End of Days and/ or first a theocracy abiding by God's Law sounding like Reconstructionists or Dominionists and the Faith, Prosperity and Seven Mountains Prophecy .
2006
and for your viewing pleasure
The Cry of A generation parody unintentionally funny or horrifying as a whole generation of Americans and Canadians see themselves as part of the Church Militant
working towards a Theocracy .
Uploaded by PointeshoePrincess on Mar 23, 2009
The destruction of our generation has been comming...we've seen it day by day...as class mates die...friends are no longer themselves thanks to the things of this world...its time to step up and be someone in this battle...the world can't ignore us when we change the course of things...it can be done...if it will only be done.
Perry and other politicians at this event will be joining forces with some extremists evangelicals.
Texas Governor Rick Perry's Bizarre, Fringe Mass Prayer Rally -- What Happened to No Gov Meddling in Religion?
Gov. Rick Perry’s call for a day-long event of prayer and fasting Aug. 6 at a sports stadium in Houston is a dramatic escalation of government meddling in religion. by Rob Boston Alternet.org
...A rising AFA star is a cranky blogger named Bryan Fischer. In October of 2009, I sat in a crowded hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C., listening to Fischer tell a rapt audience at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit that Adolf Hitler invented church-state separation.
That rant was tame compared to some of Fischer’s other views. Since then, Fischer has gone on to assert that a killer whale that killed a trainer at Sea World should be stoned to death (because the Bible says so), opined that Native Americans deserved to lose control of the continent because they were Pagans and sexual deviants, called gay sex a form of “domestic terrorism,” advocated for the reintroduction of blasphemy laws in America, insisted that grizzly bear attacks on humans are a sign that “the land is under a curse” and helpfully pointed out that Muslims have no right to build mosques in this country because the First Amendment protects only Christians.
Most Americans do not accept these extreme views. It’s bad enough that Perry is using his government office to promote a prayer rally. It’s even worse that the one he is promoting excludes the majority of Americans. But worst of all is that he is partnering with the radical fringe of the Religious Right to bring it about.
Yet Perry is not only moving forward, he has invited the nation’s other 49 governors to endorse the fundamentalist event! (As of this writing, Govs. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana have said they will attend.)
Here’s the good news: Opponents are speaking out. The Texas Freedom Network, the Houston Clergy Council, the Secular Coalition for America and others have criticized the governor’s role in the rally. Kim Kamen, a Texas-based executive with the American Jewish Committee, cut to the heart of the matter when she toldThe Times, “There are many houses of worship here in Texas, not just Christian churches. As the leader of our state, we hope that he will bear that in mind.”
In mid June, more than 20 members of the clergy from the Houston area issued a joint letter blasting the Perry rally.
“We believe in a healthy boundary between church and state,” it read. “Out of respect for the state, we believe that it should represent all citizens equally and without preference for religious or philosophical tradition. Out of respect for religious communities, we believe that they should foster faithful ways of living without favoring one political party over another. Keeping the church and state separate allows each to thrive and upholds our proud national tradition of empowering citizens to worship freely and vote conscientiously.We are concerned that our governor has crossed the line by organizing a religious event rather than focusing on the people’s business in Austin.”
Eric Bearse, a spokesman for the event who formerly worked as Perry’s communications director, told American Family Radio, which is run by the AFA, that the event would be evangelistic in tone.
“A lot of people want to criticize what we’re doing, as if we’re somehow being exclusive of other faiths,” Bearse said. “But anyone who comes to this solemn assembly, regardless of their faith tradition or background, will feel the love, grace, and warmth of Jesus Christ in that assembly hall, in that arena. And that’s what we want to convey, that there’s acceptance and that there’s love and that there’s hope if people will seek out the living Christ.”
Allan E. Parker Jr., one of the event’s organizers, writes on its website,
“This is an explicitly Christian event because we are going to be praying to the one true God through His son, Jesus Christ.It would be idolatry of the worst sort for Christians to gather and invite false gods like Allah and Buddha and their false prophets to be with us at that time.Because we have religious liberty in this country, they are free to have events and pray to Buddha and Allah on their own.But this is time of prayer to the One True God through His son, Jesus Christ, who is The Way, The Truth, and The Life.”
and so it goes,
GORD.
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