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Rick Perry Pledges To End Obama’s ‘War On Religion,’ Dings ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ In New Ad

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Yesterday, after the White House issued a memorandum pledging to “promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons” abroad, Gov. Rick Perry hit back, helpfully reminding everyone that “special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money.” Well, did you know that America is wasting its dimes helping gay people here at home as well? It’s doing so by helping gay people here help other people overseas all at the expense of our nation’s children.

Confused? Well, Perry explains it in a new ad released yesterday in which he informs voters that “there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”

RELATED: Jon Stewart Takes The Fight To Fox News And ‘Officially’ Declares War On Christmas

Thank God (the Christian one, thank you very much!) that Perry is around to make that comparison because, as we all know, those two things are completely identical.

Seriously, do you know how horrible it is for America’s Christian children today who have to keep their love of Christmas a secret? They can absolutely never mention it in school, able only to hint at it by wearing “festive” colors (red and green being the recognized sign that one is cruising for gifts). These kids are forced to pretend to be “normal” holiday celebrators. But they don’t want to wish people “Happy holidays.” That’s a lie! It’s not who they are!

And the media doesn’t help! Our media wants to pretend that these kids don’t even exist! That’s why, according to TV Eyes, in the past month, the word “Christmas” has only been mentioned on 345,926 times! You can’t hide these kids under a rug, America!

To make things worse, as we all know, letting Americans serve in the military in an open and truthful fashion directly impedes children from celebrating Christmas. I’m not sure how it does that. It just does.

So God bless (again, the real God, not one of those stupid ones) you, Rick Perry. Thank you for protecting honest Americans from those other honest Americans who want to protect us honestly. You truly are a hero.

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  • Anonymous

    Perry’s trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator by spraying them with all the buzzwords that get conservative’s blood boiling. Making sense is not the goal. Pressing their buttons is the goal.
    In other words, please welcome the new president of the United States, Rick Perry!

  • Anonymous

    WTF. Where do you even begin? Someone else go in on this one.

  • Anonymous

    Just the latest ad from Rick “Birther Rock” Perry, Republican candidate for President. As much as I don’t like Republican ideology, I’m going to offer some advice, and you guys can take it or leave it. You might want to… shall we say… broaden… your demographic appeal. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    LOL!

  • Anonymous

    when will they have a war on stupid shit?

  • Anonymous

    I’m an evangelical pastor and I disapprove of this message.

  • Anonymous

    So Perry is running for president, and the two most important issues to highlight  (important enough to make an ad about them) are allowing gays in the military and the war on christmas.

    Now there’s a serious candidate.

  • http://twitter.com/Bennybombom Ben

    hehehe…..

  • Anonymous

    Couldn’t agree more.
    But as I mentioned above, the ad was constructed to hit conservatives where it hurts: their morals. What better way to court the Neanderthal wing of the Republican party than claiming Obama hates religion and wants gay rights.

  • Anonymous

    Good lord…give your money to the poor.  It will be better spent.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    This guy would be a great option for the Democrats (as the republican nominee).

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t a wise man once say that religion was the last refuge of the scondrel?  Anyway, pRick Perry is one of the dumbest mother you know whats that the reTHUGlican party has thrown out there and that’s saying a lot about a party that gave us Dan Quayle and Fred Thompson. So he’s going to stop 44′s war on religion? Considering that Obama has killed a shiite load of Muslims, I find it both weird and funny that Perry is now our savior.  So, what is Slick pRick going to do next? Save us from Obama’s war on the 2nd Ammendment?

  • Anonymous

    So, Rick Perry’s new strategy is to declare war on Gingrich by declaring war on gays?

    http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/rick-perry-declares-war-on-gingrich-by.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    That bit of right wing lies should resonate well with the evangelical idiots in Iowa and elsewhere.  Since Rick Perry can’t gain support on any merits, he has to pull a Glenn Beck.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Rumors Of Strange Bed Fellows In Texas In 2004
    (P.C. version)

    A Texas RINO Governor named Rick Perry
    Got busted bedding his State Secretary.
    His wife couldn’t handle
    A nasty gay scandal
    Like Idaho’s “wide stance” Senator Larry!

    Perry likes to pray, and talk of matters straight
    But she caught him with his Secretary of State.
    His wife felt disgraced
    That she’d been displaced
    ‘Cause Rick had some needs that she couldn’t sate!

    Soon after the sordid tale hit he press
    The Bilderburgs stepped in to suppress
    All these gay Perry rumors
    Which are electoral tumors
    So they brought in the Rove for finesse.

    He issued an immediate repudiation
    And arranged his lovers resignation
    ‘Cause the Bilderburg goal
    Of a Perry Presidential role
    Won’t be blocked by Rick’s back door infatuation.

    When Perry prays, he’s playin’ you for a fool
    He only practices the top half of the Golden Rule.
    He now awaits his chance
    To “widen out” his stance
    And as President, offer to push in America’s stool!
    ______________________

    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s war on religion, WTF is he even talking about?  Could some teabagger translate please?

  • Anonymous

    perry is so comical, uninformed, all over the map, and basically doesn’t know his head from a hole in the ground. . . . shame, actually, he just didn’t have it to move into the national scene. . . so will he and bachmann go pay homage to TheRug, or will the event be soon forgotten. . .

  • Anonymous

    Perry actually had a third point which tied together his points about gays in the military and xmas into a coherent, well thought out, argument… but he forgot it :)

  • Anonymous

    Any clear thinking individual saw this one coming. Gov. Goodhair’s candidacy came off the rails long ago, so now he’s trying to get the crazies back on board. Sad thing is, he’ll probably gain some (little) traction after putting this garbage on the tube and the idiots at FOX “news” will help him do just that by pushing that BS “war on Christmas” from now until the end of the year.

  • Anonymous

    I know…what does “war on religion” mean? Are there religious people somewhere being stashed by the Obama administration in concentration camps that we do not know about? 
    Talk about demagoging. It’s kitchen sink territory for poor rikkay. 

  • Anonymous

    This kind of ad works wonders though in a conservative state where the conservative is campaigning against a Democrat. It may look or sound crazy, but if you live in a conservative state, this is your typical run of the mill ad during campaign season.

  • Anonymous

    they are being kept with Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.

  • Anonymous

    You beat me to it!!

  • Anonymous

    Republicans don’t want Rick Perry. Ann Coulter and Mike Huckabee say he has made too many mistakes and is not fit to be president. He’s also an Anti-Choice candidate. He and the other five Anti-Choice candidate signed the radical Susan B. Anthony List Pledge to declare war against women.

  • BooBoo Bear

    And here I thought it was Bush that killed One Million Iraqis. While I am aware that probably 500 Pakistani’s have been killed during Obama’s tenure…He has a long way to go to even come close to Bush’s total.

    Just where is this war on the second amendment going on? In your head…

    Does Perry even know that the Christian God is the same as the Muslim God as well as the same God as the Jews.

  • Anonymous

    It was just too easy lol.

  • labman57

    Translation of Perry’s commentary: “How dare Obama take a stance which impugns the righteous cause of God-fearing Christians in our efforts to promote bigotry and intolerance.”

  • Anonymous

    I started typing and then gave up. I let others comment on the ridiculous of this ad.

  • expatpatriot

    On the upside, this ridiculous campaign will put to bed any rumors that Perry is qualified for political office. Then the good people of Texas (of which I am an ex-) can look for an adult with an above-room-temperature IQ for their governor.

    Can they recall this goofus for being too stupid to breathe?

  • Anonymous

    This ad caters to the “vegitative-comatose-state” demographic.

  • Anonymous

    Rick is sick.  Sick.  Sick.  Sick.

  • Anonymous

    How wrong are Rick Perry’s statement.  Let me count thy ways.  First there is no war on Christmas.  Its called good business.  Retail stores, malls, shopping centers use the expression Happy Holidays because its inclusive.  Theres nothing stopping individuals greeting each other with Merry Christmas.  re: Gays in the military.  He’s comparing apples and oranges. Perry is such a hypocrit.  He complains of  Christian predjudice and on the other hand he discriminates against Gays and Lesbians. Buzz words for Conservatives: homosexual,  Christian, Religion. As defined by the right wing.  What does Gays serving in the military to do with a war on religio?  What Perry really means is a war on Christians.  I wonder how soon the TX Republican will claim the US is a Christian nation.  No offense to people who practice Christianity but this a nation of multiple faiths or no faith for that matter.  I know there people who believe in Jesus are tolerant and respect other creeds. 

  • Anonymous

    And your most likely one of those ignorant Fools who are on their knees, in front of Obambi, with your hand on his pants zipper, aren’t you?  It is certainly plain that you are not a Christian, so you must be one of Obambi’s Horde of Demons.

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  • Anonymous

    Let’s talk instead about something more important instead, like the e-mails just released today by the DOJ confirming that the obama DOJ was intentionally and illegally selling guns to the Mexican drug gangs with the intention of using the crimes committed with those “American weapons” to attack the second amendment. Subversion of the constitution anyone? Are there trials, convictions, perhaps executions for being accessories to murder and treason in order here? What would your opinion be if it had been a Republican admin that had done this and caused the death of U.S. agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican nationals?

  • Anonymous

    Perry is just another cowboy boot wearing bigot with a red neck. That hayseed needs to stay away from government. Period.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, do you understand being snarky?  Now I know that 44 hasn’t declared war on the 2nd amendment, but you can’t tell that to those gun toting, bible thumpers.  They really believe that Obama is going to do a gun grab, never taking into consideration that he’s been really good for gun sales.  As for killing Muslims (for you southerners, that would be mooselums) I was refering to the terrorists and pirates that he’s whacked via proxy. Lighten up a little

  • expatpatriot

    What was the name of your alternate universe again?

  • Anonymous
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

     It’s absolute horse hockey that that kids can’t pray in school . There’s a moment of silence when you can pray if you want. It’s rightfully not organized so no one is excluded. 

  • expatpatriot

    Logic 101: Just because two things are associated doesn’t necessarily mean they are dependent on each other (i.e., correlation doesn’t imply causation).

    The article doesn’t suggest for a moment that Fast and Furious (right, wrong or indifferent) sold guns with the intent of influencing gun law. It states that government bureaucrats saw the ease with which regulations were sidestepped or winked at in the Fast & Furious program, and went on to suggest a change in regulations because of it.

    You get to call it a plot. Woo-hoo! The rest of us recognise it as doing one’s job.

  • Anonymous

    And you aren’t Christian either because you obviously don’t love thy neighbor.

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