TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan and I got together yesterday on bloggingheads to discuss religion and the GOP presidential primary. I’d like to say we didn’t have much to talk about, but, well, the good folks at BHTV appropriately titled it “Perrytastic Edition,” so you get the idea. If you want to watch the entire thing, you can do so here; among other things, we discussed Rick Perry’s allies in his prayer rally The Response, including the American Family Association, which former employees describe in the most unflattering terms, and controversial televangelist and Christian Zionist John Hagee (for more on him and other attendees at James Robison’s “supernatural gatherings,” such as Rod Parsley and Kenneth Copeland, read my book). Right Wing Watch is doing a fine job compiling a greatest hits of some of Perry’s prayer partners, including, most recently, John Benefiel of the Heartland Apostolic Network, who thinks that the Statue of Liberty is a “demonic idol.”
At the end of the bloggingheads segment, Amy asked me what I would like to see the GOP candidates asked in presidential debates. The question I’d like to see goes to the heart of my feature story today, on Michele Bachmann’s Christian legal education at Oral Roberts University: do the candidates really think that our Constitution is divinely ordained, and that we should follow God’s law? Amy had some good suggestions, too, but don’t hold your breath that any of them will get asked. Watch:
