‘Bigoted,’ ‘theocratic’ Perry prayer event sparks massive anti-Christian media backlash

Life Site News ^ | August 8, 2011 | KATHLEEN GILBERT

[NYer]

Unless the LORD build the house, they labor in vain who build.
Unless the LORD guard the city, in vain does the guard keep watch.
Psalm 127:1

Governor Perry gets it!

[Da Coyote]

Hmmmm...massive anti-Christian backlash for a simple public prayer.

Waiting for that massive anti-Muslim backlash for killing over 3,000 Americans.

Waiting...

Crickets chirping.

[jospehm20]

Godless sodomite loving socialists are offended by prayer. Who’d have thunk it?

[wk4bush2004]

Oh really, so on the same argument, if Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota (a Muslim) led an Islamic Friday prayer service in downtown Minneapolis, it would be OK? Let’s see what the Huffington Post would say about that!

[Bowtie52]

If prayer upsets liberals, the media in particular, what does that really say about them?

I think Perry has the right idea, how do we bring a deal like this to Florida?

[beethovenfan]

When some future disaster hits our country, these same people will say “How could God let this happen?”

[texmexis best]

Note to Leftwingers:

Giveth it a rest.....

Thou dost bore us nigh unto death...

[normy]

A guy I know calls himself a non Christian Deist and he said Christians scare him to death. I thought, dude, Muslims are sawing peoples heads off and flying passenger planes into buildings and Christians scare you to death?

[radioone]

You just have to take it for what it is: A political attack on Perry by a group of Leftists...nothing more. On another subject it will be Another Group of Leftists attacking Perry.

[caddie]

Be unashamed, Perry and everyone.
What he said could and probably did come almost word for word from the mouth of Washington. The press can go to Hell.

[afnamvet]

The Response, a non-denominational Christian event initiated by Gov. Perry and joined by cosponsors including the American Family Association (AFA), drew around 30,000 participants to Houston Saturday.

There, the crowd followed a Biblical injunction to “gather together, repent of their sins, and pray to God to intervene on their behalf.”

And that, my friends, is all it was. I and my family participated in The Response at home via GODTV.

I wonder how many disgruntled and disaffected naysayers would there have been if it was a Muslim event?

[DaveyB]

Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, "Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us." He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The LORD shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: ... You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.' Now therefore, be wise, O kings; Be instructed, you judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him. Psalm 2:1-12

Things haven't changed much. Fools still say in their hearts there is no God and then do evil because they have communion with the source of goodness; God still says He will destroy fools.

[all the best]

Imagine turning to God and praying at a time like this. Bunch of kooks. They could be doing something productive like promoting sodomite “marriage”. Some people will never learn.

[Rumplemeyer]

This is fun, public prayer really pushes their buttons, what are they so afraid of...

[Rocky]

how do we bring a deal like this to Florida?

Ask your governor. He couldn't make it to the event in Houston, but he sent a video greeting to the participants, about a five minute message that was shown on the big screens there.

[jospehm20]

Godless sodomite loving socialists are offended by prayer. Who’d have thunk it?

[NYer]

When some future disaster hits our country, these same people will say “How could God let this happen?”

Lol ... excellent observation!

[red-dawg]

A local news station showed a few protestors outside the stadium, they were citing the usual liberal anti-christian talking points. Separation of church and state, blah blah blah.

I'm still waiting for them to haul their butts up to DC and stand outside the fence at the whitehouse and protest the IFTAR Ramadan dinner being held there.

[yoe]

"Governor Perry gets it!

Amen!........still don't know whether I would vote for him however..........