Rick Perry’s ‘Apolitical’ Spiritual Experience
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Mother Jones throws a little more light on Rick Perry’s embrace of Christian Dominionists.
Speaking from a temporary pulpit to more than 30,000 people, Texas Gov. Rick Perry emphasized that there were no political motives behind his presence at The Response, the huge evangelical revival meeting that drew some of the most high-profile figures in American evangelical Christianity to Houston’s Reliant Stadium on Saturday. At an event that was characterized throughout the day as a turning point, a crossroads—the moment at which a sinful nation would once again realize the promise of redemption through Jesus Christ—one speaker declared that Saturday marked the beginning of a Third Great Awakening. America’s “God-sized problems,” as Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention characterized them, seemed, to these worshippers, to be on the verge of finally being addressed.
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The Response, Perry insisted, was entirely apolitical. The preponderance of Republican elected officials on hand, including Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas and Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, meant nothing; God transcends partisanship. “His agenda is not a political agenda; his agenda is a salvation agenda,” Perry said. Eric Bearse, spokesman for The Response, reiterated this logic in so many words to reporters: “The people I’ve talked to, they’re not here about anything related to politics. They’re here for a spiritual experience.”
