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Originally Posted by awareness
No. But he didn't have just ordinary people like yourself sitting next to him. Not everyone gets the privilege of sitting next to the Governor.
And to add a funny. Thirty thousand prayed for rain and "God" sent fires.
I should add that the NAR movement is a fringe movement, but given those like Barton and Cahn are all over Christian TV, and even on shows like Glenn Beck, back when he was on Fox, they are getting play.
Cahn WAS speaking in Washington D.C.
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OK, so then perhaps Gov Perry isn't actually "of the NAR", just because he sat next to them in front of a TV camera.
I think this is part of why these "ultra-nationalistic" groups doesn't alarm me that much, personally. Politicians rub elbows w/a lot of leaders. African American politicians, usually of a liberal persuasion, frequently rub elbows w/church leaders in their communities. (And the media usually does not bother them w/lectures on the separation of church and state.) Pols also hobnob w/union leaders. And Barbara Streisand, and Ellen DeGeneres. It's about trust. And it's about celebrity. Trust + celebrity = votes.
It doesn't mean a Pres Perry would impose his Christian faith on non-Christian Americans, anymore than Pres Bush did. Or anymore than Pres Obama is imposing his Muslim faith on us now.
(That's a joke, btw.)