{"id":200,"date":"2011-12-08T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2011\/12\/rick-perrys-latest-ad\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T00:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:33:37","slug":"rick-perrys-latest-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2011\/12\/rick-perrys-latest-ad.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry&#8217;s Latest Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style='clear: both; font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif; text-align: center;'><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Strong\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0PAJNntoRgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>Commentary to follow, but first, the transcript:\u00a0<a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>I\u2019m not ashamed to admit that I\u2019m a Christian, but you don\u2019t need to be  in the pew every Sunday to know there\u2019s something wrong in this country  when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can\u2019t openly  celebrate Christmas or pray in school.<\/p>\n<p>As President, I\u2019ll end Obama\u2019s war on religion.  And I\u2019ll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>Faith made America strong.  It can make her strong again.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Rick Perry and I approve this message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>Rick Perry is talking to his base here. He\u2019s talking to people like my parents, who view being gay as a sin and see the removal of official prayers from the public school as the beginning of the end for this country. I remember when I saw issues like this as the number one thing to vote on. What mattered was what a candidate thought of abortion and gay marriage, <em>and nothing else<\/em>.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>The thing is, he\u2019s <em>only <\/em>talking to his base. To those who don\u2019t see anything wrong with having gays in the military or with not having official school prayer (no one is stopping kids from praying in school, it just can\u2019t be teacher led or endorsed by the school), this ad makes no sense at all.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>See, I could list a lot of things that are wrong with our country, and allowing gays in the military and removing official prayer from the schools wouldn\u2019t appear on that list at all. Our country isn\u2019t suffering from a lack of faith \u2013 it\u2019s suffering from a lack of social and economic justice. I\u2019d like to think that most Americans agree with me.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>In the book <em>What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas, <\/em>the author argues that Republicans have used social issues like abortion and gay marriage to con voters into voting against their very own economic best interests. He looks specifically at what has happened to Kansas as outsourcing and deregulation and other things born straight out of Republicans\u2019 free market agenda have stripped people of their jobs and livelihoods even as they have <em>continued <\/em>to vote for Republicans because of the issues of abortion and gay marriage.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>When I read the book, I thought it had some hyperbole. I\u2019m starting to think not, though. When issues like gay rights and school prayer trump basic economic concerns, there\u2019s a problem. Of course, someone like Perry might say they\u2019re related \u2013 that we\u2019re in this economic mess because we turned away from God and are facing his judgment. In this twisted way of viewing the world, the best way to fix our economy is to ban abortion and ban homosexuality. Only then can we achieve economic prosperity.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>To add one point to the very upside down nature of how Perry sees the world, note that allowing everyone in the military regardless of their personal life and not having official prayers in school is suddenly a \u201cwar on religion.\u201d Um\u2026since when is not being able to establish your religion as the rule of the land (through prayers and discriminating against those your religion holds to be leading sinful lives) a \u201cwar on religion?\u201d I find this very often with the whole \u201cChristians are discriminated against\u201d thing. Ask how, and what you get is things like this. \u201cChristians not being able to establish their views as the official view\u201d is seen as \u201cChristians being discriminated against.\u201d Except, in the real world, that\u2019s not how it works.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>And as a side note: We\u2019re blaming the lack of official school prayer on Obama now? Talk about rewriting history: it was the Supreme Court in 1962 and 1963 that banned official school prayers, Obama has <em>nothing <\/em>to do about it.<\/div>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;'>Personally, I prefer a president who lives in the world of reality, where things like equal rights and social justice still matter. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary to follow, but first, the transcript:\u00a0 I\u2019m not ashamed to admit that I\u2019m a Christian, but you don\u2019t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there\u2019s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can\u2019t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. 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