I had not seen this side of Governor Perry and I'm disappointed. These views will scare the heck out of the Moderates who we really need in order to win in 2012.
Perry has long considered himself a “prophet” of God and is quick to combine religion with his right-wing, anti-government policies. A secessionist with a Confederate past, Perry considers programs like Medicaid, the Clean Air Act, and school assistance as unconstitutional “nonsense.” It is now standard practice for Perry to invoke his religion to justify that stance. In May, Perry claimed that the economic crisis was proof the nation needed to go “back to those Biblical principles of you know, you don’t spend all the money.” He even skewed a parable of the Bible to argue that federal public programs are tantamount to “slavery” in which beneficiaries are “slaves to government.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/14/269398/perry-government-in-gods-hands/
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