[snip]........”Now comes Perry, whose remarks on Saturday contained more religiosity than Bush ever uttered publicly, and whose supporters don’t even think that church and state should be kept separate. And because of that, they interpret concerns about Perry’s use of his office to promote one religion as criticism of his faith itself. You can’t have a conversation when the response to “If the governor wants to hold a day of prayer, maybe it should be open to all faiths” is “Why are you uncomfortable letting us pray?”
Perry’s willingness to rewrite the rules of politics is already injecting some excitement into the GOP race for the presidential nomination. But his willingness to rewrite the rules of civic religion and the establishment clause of the Constitution deserves more attention.”
http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/09/rick-perry-changes-the-rules/
This is one of those six of one and half dozen of the other things. Some places it will help, and others it will hurt. It’s calculated and obviously he thinks it will help more than hurt, but honestly, I am not so sure.
He didn’t TALK politics at the religious even, but he did politicize it whether he intended to or not. ALL the candidates know full well that anything they say or do will be fodder for the left stream.