Gov. Rick Perry
Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a possible GOP presidential candidate, is teaming with the anti-gay American Family Association for a national prayer event Aug. 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston. The event, called the Response, was Perry’s idea and will be funded by the AFA, designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-gay views. The AFA’s issues director, Bryan Fischer, has blamed homosexuality for the Holocaust. It’s sad to say, but this event should play well with Republican primary voters and is perhaps the clearest indication yet that Perry plans to seek the GOP nomination for president. Watch a promo for the event below.
2. A study by the Centers for Disease Control shows that gay, lesbian and bisexual teens are far more likely to engage in risky behavior, from smoking to unprotected sex, than their straight counterparts. “This report should be a wake-up call,” Dr. Howell Wechsler, director of CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, said in a statement. “We are very concerned that these students face such dramatic disparities for so many different health risks.”
3. Gay couples can’t get divorced in Texas, but they can in Wyoming. The Wyoming Supreme Court on Monday reversed a district judge’s decision and allowed a same-sex couple married in Canada to obtain a divorce. A gay Dallas man who’s seeking a divorce has appealed his case to the Texas Supreme Court. Conflicting rulings in Texas and Wyoming could make it more likely for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue. But unlike Texas, Wyoming has only a state statute and not a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage.
Rick – I thought you claimed to be a christian! READ YOUR BIBLE! In the book of Matthew, Jesus said, ‘don’t pray in public ! When you pray, go into your closet and pray in private’ I believe you’re just doing your Houston thing to draw attention to yourself and Jesus will not honor it!
I completely agree with you Tom. Aside from the fact that he is surrounding himself with Hate groups, I have no respect for that. WE are not the judges in anyone’s life. What I mean is.He associates himself with many judgemental groups. These individuals and I guess Rick himself profess God’s word. Well,the word definitely states DO NOT JUDGE>
and of course DON’T PRAY IN PUBLIC. Interesting, very interesting. I am a believer in Christ, not considered a Christian I guess. I will not associate with judgemental folks who have decided the eternal future of people. Not my get. Everyone has to make their OWN peace with GOD, and HE/SHE will doll out blessings or whatever to that said person, I am not in that job to do so. So yea, pray all you want, good for you. But please don’t be discriminatory or hateful or vengeful about it. Be careful what you wish for, pray for, Just pray for God’s will, save the Bible, cuz actually that Old book has been translated, again and again, things go missing, truths get lost, So do we really know all of God’s will? Not bloody likely.
I won’t go to Texas on that day, and I won’t fast, cuz God knows it will make me physically ill, But I will pray for Peace, and good will to all men and women no matter who or what they choose to be or were born to be, I will pray for this nation to wake up and smell the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE coffee, I will pray for God’s will, for HIS/HER, love. And I will rest easy knowing that we are in THEIR Hands. I will pray for everyone’s freedoms too, be they gay, straight, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, or Bhuddist, I will pray for all. x0x0x0x0 to the world