Among the Republican candidates running for president in 2012, there’s been a whole lot of praying in public.

Months before his Christian revival meeting in Houston, Rick Perry prayed, presumably to Jesus, for rain--though when he established the Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas back in April, the proclamation was non-sectarian. He told the Christian Broadcasting Network in August that he prays “every day” for President Obama and then said he wished God would give the president the “wisdom” to roll back health care reform and get the Environmental Protection Agency off the backs of business.