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AUG 11 • I do not want anyone shoving their religion down my throat or my husband's, nor my grown children's nor my grandchildren's.We are a mixed family--my father's side of the family was very Jewish, my mother's was Catholic and another Christian religion......We as children had lessons in all 3 so we would have an understanding of all 3.. I do not like going to ANY event that does an invocation that ends : " in J----'s name we pray".....WHY?? It eliminates everyone who isn't Christian....just end it in Amen......I donot think it is proper for any candidate to have these types of rallies for political purposes.......How would you like us to have an event and have all prayers in Hebrew???????? Wouldn't you be uncomfortable and feel like you shouldn't be at that event-yes you would........Keep religion out of all public places unless your group is the only one attending. I am not voting on your religious beliefs..........the Nazi's went to church every Sunday that they could.....and then went out and butchered 11 million people..............AUG 06 • On Veterans Day, when I am in Little Tokyo, I walk over to the Japanese-American Memorial to the Japanese-American Veterans from World War II. Many of them were Buddhists. Buddha is not a G*d, the Son of G*d, etc. They were soldiers of the, 442nd, the most decorated unit in World War II, and were true Americans, regardless of your opinion that faith in G*d is a prerequisite They put their lives on the line in support of the United States of America, no other country. There are no religious symbols there. It is a memorial to the soldiers. I salute the Memorial every time that I pass it. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America, and no other country. If you ever do go there Mr. Perry, please make amends to all of the Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Native Americans, as well as the Deists, Agnostics, and Atheists that died to protect our freedom of religion.AUG 05 • Ricky Perry wants to run for President of the United States; I hope he does because that will assure that President Obama will have another four years in the White House. The Guv is a first-class fiscal hypocrite; he claims to be cautious about the state's money and then spends an inordinate amount of tax payer money in renting his mansion and surroundings.I am Jewish and very proud of being so. I've nothing in particular against Christianity as long as they leave me alone. I know my Judaism and I know Christianity probably better than most Christians because I have made it my purpose to know what they believe.The Prayer and Fasting event that is forthcoming, is a disgrace to every citizen of Texas and to the words of Jesus. Jesus told Christians not to pray in public, so, of course, what do they do? Yup. They want to pray at the drop of a hat (while passing the hat for donations). For those Christians who might see this, open up your book to Matthew 6:5-6. Read it and weep. What you are doing is WRONG. It is wrong not only because it excludes all other religions but it is wrong because YOUR guy told you so.When I was in elementary school we had to do to things to kick off the day's events: 1. Say the pledge of allegiance and 2. say the "Lord's" prayer. Just before they did that, I'd respectfully get out of my chair and walk out of the room. It was my way of protesting having Christianity shoved down my throat every blasted morning. I kvelled when they finally made it clear that prayer in school was prohibited.Prayer in schools had always been prohibited, but nobody bothered with obeying a law until someone finally did something about it. Unfortunately for me, it happened too late for me, but my children were not exposed to religion in school; they got it at home and at shul.The fact that Mr. Perry has decided that HATE GROUPS are the right people to have around him proves that he has no business running for anything. The American Family Association has been declared a hate group by the SPLC and others and that is good enough for me.AUG 05 • This is an excellent article, but it misses a very important point: eighteenth century evangelicals were equally committed to separation of church and state. There was a broad understanding that mixing the two was bad for both religion and government. See "Wellspring of Liberty."