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06-02-2005, 07:08 AM
Perry taking politics through church doors
By Bud Kennedy
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
The governor is coming here Sunday for church.
Lord knows there's nothing wrong with that.
But he's coming to sign two bills into law for all Texans.
I hope all Texans will feel welcome Sunday at Calvary Cathedral.
Gov. Rick Perry is going to the church to sign bills restricting abortion and setting a vote on a definition-of-marriage constitutional amendment.
Sounds like this will have less to do with praise than with politics.
We're about to see an awful lot of the governor between now and March. He's running for re-election against possible opponents from Austin and Dallas, so he's lobbying to line up conservative church support from Fort Worth.
Even for a governor who says bluntly that he thinks the United States was founded "on Christian faith," it's audacious to bring a public ceremony into a church.
Perry doesn't see it that way.
I asked him Wednesday at another bill-signing ceremony inside Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, where a workers compensation compromise was somehow signed into law without any political pitch for "values."
Asked about the choice of a church, he first said: "I try to go to church on Sunday."
He called Calvary Cathedral -- one of the largest churches in town, the home of the private-school Calvary Academy Conquerors -- a "great setting" for a bill signing and said he hopes for a "large and boisterous" crowd.
"Most Texans get it," he said, belittling the question. "The two issues talk about values. A church is an appropriate place to come together and celebrate a victory for the values of the people of Texas."
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/11795800.htm
By Bud Kennedy
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
The governor is coming here Sunday for church.
Lord knows there's nothing wrong with that.
But he's coming to sign two bills into law for all Texans.
I hope all Texans will feel welcome Sunday at Calvary Cathedral.
Gov. Rick Perry is going to the church to sign bills restricting abortion and setting a vote on a definition-of-marriage constitutional amendment.
Sounds like this will have less to do with praise than with politics.
We're about to see an awful lot of the governor between now and March. He's running for re-election against possible opponents from Austin and Dallas, so he's lobbying to line up conservative church support from Fort Worth.
Even for a governor who says bluntly that he thinks the United States was founded "on Christian faith," it's audacious to bring a public ceremony into a church.
Perry doesn't see it that way.
I asked him Wednesday at another bill-signing ceremony inside Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, where a workers compensation compromise was somehow signed into law without any political pitch for "values."
Asked about the choice of a church, he first said: "I try to go to church on Sunday."
He called Calvary Cathedral -- one of the largest churches in town, the home of the private-school Calvary Academy Conquerors -- a "great setting" for a bill signing and said he hopes for a "large and boisterous" crowd.
"Most Texans get it," he said, belittling the question. "The two issues talk about values. A church is an appropriate place to come together and celebrate a victory for the values of the people of Texas."
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/11795800.htm