[TheRealThing]

America is in serious trouble if the Republican candidates keep throwing God's name out. Mike Huckabee said it best in the last elections debates ""Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office...that's what Jesus would do."

I don't hate, but I come close when ANY candidate for ANY party tries to ''ride Jesus to the White House' I have no problem with someone saying they are Christian, or saying that their faith helps them make decisions, but leave all the quotes, the God told me to, God is punishing Washington, God makes hurricanes kill hundreds of people because we didn't support house bill blah blah blah. It is that junk that makes people dislike Christianity in politics. Do Christians need to hide faith or abandon it? NO! Just stop making comments like that about it.

I am a proponent of people that let their ACTIONS speak for their faith. Not telling a crowd that "Jesus made me do it" "God told me to run" "God is punishing Washington"

One thing that is appalling is how much media tries to run with these things. If it keeps up, it will go from a non-Christian could never be in the White House to a place where a Christian can never win. Then again, some of the best Presidents had questionable religious beliefs (See Thomas Jefferson and others)

I think you're being a little harsh with some good people that likely you would be proud to attend church with. To me the worst mistake he has made is to go a little overboard in proclaiming his allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ.

It's a fine line he has to walk. I can't blame Perry for standing tall in not being ashamed of Jesus. As far as Anita is concerned, if they prayed about it as a family, as they should have, and Governor Perry felt led to run for the Presidency, why was she so out of line to say what she did? I would venture all of those washed in the blood of the Savior have felt led to do things more than once. If nothing else, the truth about Mitt Romney's chruch affiliation has emerged and, it wasn't Perry that brought that out. It was Robert Jeffress, Pastor of a well known and respected Dallas church.

I thought Perry was overkilling in the area of faith too. Mitt Romney, on the other hand was handling things in a way much less likely to brand him as out of the mainstream. I believe the matter of faith is critical in that it goes to the types of decisions the candidate will likely make while in office. To me it's more of a matter of opening himself up for unneccessary criticisms and ridicule from his political opponents. It's great that he has the matter of his personal salvation issues settled but, it's almost like he is signaling that he will evangelize a little from office, which I believe will hurt him. I don't mistrust him because of that but, I think it's somewhat unfortunate he chooses to be so overt about it all.