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And you're conflating as though they were the same. Perry didn't just sit in some of these people's churches and listen to their sermons on how the Statue of Liberty is a demonic idol or that Hitler was sent by god to move the Jews...he invited them to speak inside a huge (and mostly empty, thankfully) stadium.
There is a difference between listening to what someone says and inviting them to say it again...
Oh, I'm not conflating them as being the same. Wright is far worse.
Wright has made it pretty clear he hates white people and America. That makes him my enemy. And Barack Obama sat in the man's church for 20 years, and thought that was just fine, when he was a "community organizer" and that was his base. When he tried to move out of that base, Wright became the crazy uncle he had to lobotomize and stick in the closet after playing the race card on his own grandmother didn't work.
The comments about the Statue of liberty are a bit flakey, but seriously, I don't get all hot and bothered over a statue. (Judging by your icon picture, you don't agree, obviously.) The comment about Hitler, I think that's a tough one for any believer.
If you believe God has a plan, Hitler was part of that plan, somehow, was he not?
I'm an agnostic, and I think if there is a God, he's pretty much indifferent to the cruelty we inflict on each other. But others have other views, and it must be a struggle to reconcile the two.