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July 25, 2011

Deseret News: Faith in the GOP: how fishing for religious votes in Iowa could lose them the general election

by Hal Boyd
Deseret News

HOUSTON — Wearing a fine silk tie and a Boy Scouts of America lapel pin on his suite, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, delivered an open invitation to join him in a day of prayer and fasting at Houston's Reliant Stadium on the 6th of August.

"With the economy in trouble, communities in crisis and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism we need God's help," Perry said in a video promoting the prayer event. "That's why I'm calling on Americans to pray and fast like Jesus did and as God called the Israelite to do in the Book of Joel."

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