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The American Family Association, the main backer of the Christianist prayer rally so heavily promoted by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, say the event will not violate the separation of church and state. “The Response is an open event. Anyone who wants to pray to Jesus for a nation in crisis is welcome to attend. Next, The Response is a prayer …

And here’s why, according to an event organizer: This is an explicitly Christian event because we are going to be praying to the one true God through His son, Jesus Christ. It would be idolatry of the worst sort for Christians to gather and invite false gods like Allah and Buddha and their false prophets to be with us at …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry invites you to the official state-sanctioned Christian (only) prayer rally where you will be asked to “pray and fast like Jesus did.”

Texas Gov. Rick Perry will be staging an official state day of prayer at which ALL faiths will be welcome. So long as you’re ready to welcome the love of Jeebus into your heart. So sez Perry’s spokesman.

So says the governor of Texas.

Today the Texas legislature finalized a bill that requires doctors to take a sonogram and offer to show the image to the patient before performing an abortion. Gov. Rick Perry is expected to sign the bill immediately. The bill requires a doctor to conduct a sonogram at least 24 hours before an abortion and to give the woman the opportunity …

As wildfires continue to sweep across hundreds of thousands of acres, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has issued an official state proclamation urging residents to pray to God to send some rain. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day …

Speaking to Fox News Sunday today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Medicare and Social Security “a Ponzi scheme” and unconstitutional. “Do the things you’re supposed to do, like securing our border, like delivering the mail — preferably on time and on Saturdays — before you get involved in things that the Constitution doesn’t say one word about, like health care,” …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, seen here on his direct hotline to the Lord, says that maybe that pesky oil spill was just an act of God. “We don’t know what the event that has allowed for this massive oil to be released,” Perry said alongside several other governors on a panel Monday. “And until we know that, I hope we …

Will we ever tire of these? No, I say! No No no! (Via – Balloon Juice)

Sen. Kay Hutchinson (R-TX) is running for Texas governor against incumbent Rick Perry and her campaign staff thought it was a good idea to embed thousands of invisible search term meta-tags on her campaign site, including “rick perry gay.” Oh, hilarious! The folks at Google and Yahoo didn’t like that so much and have given Hutchinson the “death penalty,” completely …

According to a Research 2000 poll paid for by Daily Kos, more than one-third of Texans favor secession, with half of the state’s polled Republicans saying that the state would be better off as an independent nation. The Washington Post opines: “The secession results suggest that [Texas governor] Perry may be more in line with the average Texas Republican primary …

It’s technically true that the document that admitted Texas into the Union allows for its possible future division into five states. What would you name these five states? AMERICAblog might have some ideas to get you started.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says Texas Gov. Rick Perry is “standing up for the sovereignty of his state.” Chris Matthews rips DeLay to shreds.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry told an audience of teabaggers today that “Texas can leave the union if it wants to” and threatened “if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.” Clip is audio only.