Let's face it. A politician's main goal in mind is usually to be heard and seen of men. So it is not an unjustified suspicion to think that perhaps a politician praying in public is hypocritically trying to prove how devout he is. I don't come from Texas but nothing I have heard about Perry so far has inclined me to think that he is holier or less of a demagogue than other politicians.
No disagreement about Perry’s opportunism.