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Rick Perry’s prayer pal Mike Bickle of the International House of Prayer, a key figure in Perry’s “The Response” prayer rally, explains how he has cast out demons. Which attacked him. Personally.

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Casual viewers of “The Response,” including some political reporters who don’t pay a lot of attention to the Religious Right, may have watched Texas Governor Rick Perry’s prayer rally on Saturday and wondered what all the fuss was about. Let me tell you.

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In case you didn’t have the time (or the stomach) to follow Texas Governor Rick Perry’s grandstanding prayer rally this Saturday, here are Mike Meno’s picks: The top five most divisive and/or outrageous statements made during the televised prayer-fest!

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Responding to ‘The Response’: AU and allies offered successful alternative to Rick Perry prayer rally

“The Response” was a fundamentalist Christian rally put on last Saturday at Houston’s Reliant Stadium by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the ultra-right-wing American Family Association. Americans United has been speaking out against this excessive government entanglement with religion, and also offered a wonderful alternative event.

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Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews on Friday to discuss The Response. During the show, Matthews played a number of videos, firs…

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For those of you who had better things to do with your time then spend seven hours on a Saturday watching the extended Christian Rock-jam session that was Gov. Rick Perry’s "The Response" rally, we put together a short video featuring the app…

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Response participants dedicated a portion of the event to a generational blessing in which James Dobson lamented that the current generation has been subjected to more wickedness, evil and lies than any generation in history while Vonette Bright prayed…

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Organizers of "The Response" were abundantly clear that people of all faiths were invited to attend and participate in the event … so long as they agreed to worship Jesus.
So it was no surprise to see IHOP’s Mike Bickle, who believes that O…

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During a speech at Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s The Response devoted to pray for the state of Israel, rally participants heard a prayer by Don Finto to send "revival" to Israel and for the Jewish people to "come to their own Messiah.&quo…

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The second portion of Gov. Rick Perry’s "The Response" prayer rally was dedicated to "repentance for the shedding of innocent blood" by which they meant abortion.  Which was why they brought anti-choice activists Alveda King, L…

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