Posted on 08/08/2011 9:20:51 AM PDT by NationalSpotlight
Listening to the liberal commentators on MSNBC, the left cannot stand Governor Rick Perry hosting an event of prayer and fasting in Texas. The left is irritated by the freedom to express one's religion in public. They said the governor is overstepping his boundaries in the separation of church and state. The problem with this criticism is that Rick Perry is not forcing his religion on Texans. He is not transforming the Texas government into a theocracy. Separation of church and state does not mean taking away religion from the public square. It means the government cannot force a religion down the throats of its citizens. The left loves to use Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom to make their point about the separation of church and state. However, it does not say freedom to express one's religion should be removed from the public square. Every time the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) forces the removal of a religious symbol in the public square, it is unconstitutional! I challenge the left to remove "In God We Trust" from the dollar, all of the religious statements that are inscribed in the memorials and monuments in Washington, DC, Christ out of Christmas, etc. Our founding fathers would be disgusted with the left's nonsense!
Of course, the left was downplaying the turnout for the event hoping it would be a flop. They were wrong again. At least 30,000 Christians turned out for the prayer event at Reliant Stadium in Houston. It would be great if more government officials like Rick Perry would hold prayer events around the country. America would be a better place.
Here is a verse to reflect on: "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." (II Chronicles 7:14)
Yet not one word about the muslim in chief attending a ramadan event.
Perry’s Prayer Event irks. Actually, Christ Himself irks the Left.
GOVERNOR RICK PERRY’S PRAYER EVENT IRKS THE LEFT
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At first I was gonna reply that “It irks some on the right too”. But really. You can be an atheist and a strict Constitutionalist and still have no problem with what Gov. Perry did.
God Bless Perry.
We desperately need all the help we can get. I think it is great when people pray. It should happen more often.
Good post. Perry has as much as anyone else to go to prayer meeting and to pray.
Good for the Christians who showed up by the thousands.
The left is reacting to something they sense: the focus of the prayer includes them, and God might actually break through their depraved shell and give some of them a heart of flesh.
IOW, they realize it’s an attack on the strongholds of darkness.
“At least 30,000 Christians turned out for the prayer event at Reliant Stadium in Houston.”
Emphasis on “at least”: my folks were there and said the organizers had opened the top section because the field chairs and the first two levels were full by the time they left. He also said it was truly apolitical, and Perry made sure to expressly say so. He spoke, prayed and did not try to make the event anything other than a prayer meeting.
Impressive.
Colonel, USAFR
I posted this in a thread about the topic yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2760134/posts?page=7#7
happened first thing Sunday when i walked into the gym, heard it from a left wing lunatic ...”well i guess Perry won’t be the GOP nominee”..”oh?” i asked- “he’s a religious zealot- no one will vote for him”...
i laughed- “yeh- but they’re gonna re-elect a left wing ideologue that’s brought us constant 9% unemployment, unsustainable deficits and $4/gallon gas”....”Perry will destroy obama- left wing media or not” i finished up with...
The left irks me,,, but i never see stories in the news about how they irk me. And not to put too fine of a point on it,,, but the prayer rally had no impact on them at all. They could ignore it and go be a liberal the same as always.
When they do socialist things, i lose personal freedom, to speak, to travel, to act as i please, to keep what i earn, to own a gun, to drive a car, to flush a working toilet, to screw in a light bulb, to set my thermostat to 72, to eat what i please,,etc. So, yeah,,,im irked.
Its a beautiful thing when a RINO(perry) irks the left..
A rare event... but beautiful..
Myth Romney is careful to not do that..
Obama is not "attending" a Ramadan event.
He's hosting one. In the White House.
Prayer at at time like this?!?!?
What a radical, extremist idea.
bump.
If it irked the left then it must have been a raving success!!!
Great post! I liked how you tied Ronald Reagan’s prayer breakfast event in 1984 with Rick Perry’s Response event. Good to know! The quotes by Reagan are great too!
Correct. And if it were up to me, I'd bring back public hanging events complete with the hymn singing.
It would be compassionate to send murderous perps back to meet their maker with the timeless lyrics to Rock of Ages or other great Christian hymns on their minds. And even better, it would p*ss off the ACLU.
If I were the governor and was not a believing Christian, I'd make it a point to attend a Christian event just for the value and object lesson it would give in p*ssing off the ACLU.
Many of my friends were at the gathering and one of them said that he thought 50,000 would be an accurate number. When asked about 30,000 he said no way, it was much larger than that.
It could irk anyone on the right. Perry could be as phony as Clinton carrying a big Bible to church, just to please the social conservatives in this country.
This was Rick Perry's event? The Governor of Texas had a prayer event?
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