Considering that Michelle Bachmann got a pass for her long-time membership in a church which teaches that the pope is the anti-Christ, there seems to be a double standard here—this isn’t the pastor of the church Perry attends.
You have made the first plausible defense of Perry so far on this thread, and you are to be commended for being reasonable. Still, I think he'll have to speak up, just as Bachmann did (if memory serves).