Colbert: Perry prayer event ‘erases’ line between church and state

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Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert joked Tuesday that the U.S. needed Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) to be president because “we haven’t had a Texas governor in the White House in almost three years.”

Many are speculating that Perry might run because he’s holding a high profile prayer vigil in August.

“Gov. Perry knows that prayer is the only way to fix our problems,” Colbert explained.

Atheists have argued that the Perry event violates the separation of church and state.

“It doesn’t cross the line between church and state,” Colbert said. “It erases it.”

Watch this video from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, broadcast July 19, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/colbert-perry-prayer-event-erases-separation-of-church-and-state/

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1. I loved this line...

"Perry has looked at our problems squarely in the eye and said, "I got nothin'"!! :rofl:

[peacetalksforall]

2. Watch the video and pause it at the end. Take a look at Perry. What is wrong

with the picture. It looks like his head was photo-shopped on to another person's body. The head is disproportionate to the shoulders and the shirt collar and tie look like they are slipping up on his neck?

I hope I won't be the only one.

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4. It's a comedy show. They photochop pics all the time. n/t

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

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