Let me be brief.

Rick Perry's refusal to denounce Texas Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress' anti-Mormon bigotry should come as no surprise, given that the overwhelming evangelical tendency at Perry's August 6th, 2011 The Response prayer event, which served as the de facto launch of Perry's presidential bid in the 2012 election, was C. Peter Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation, a movement that advances the doctrine that believers should burn the Book of Mormon.

In an interview broadcast October 3, 2011 on Fresh Air, Peter Wagner confirmed that his apostle Alice Patterson had, at Perry's specific request, organized The Response. As I have documented at length, Wagner's apostles dominated Rick Perry's The Response prayer rally.

This isn't about mocking Mormonism, in the fashion of South Park. It's about the annihilation of Mormonism. But the New Apostolic Reformatiom does not stop there. As I describe in my story Burning Buddhas, Books, and Art: Meet The New Apostolic Reformation,

"Top NAR leaders, including C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Ed Silvoso and, Chuck Pierce, have repeatedly emphasized in their writings the need for believers to destroy or neutralize, by burning, smashing, or flushing down toilets, objects deemed to be unholy, including profane books and "idolatrous" religious texts (such as Books of Mormon), religious relics (such as statues of Catholic saints, the Buddha, or Hindu gods), and native art (such as African masks, Hopi Indian Kachina dolls, and totem poles.) According to New Apostolic Reformation doctrine, objects to be destroyed include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hinduism, eastern religions, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha'i."

Note: For a shorter treatment of the issue covered in the Talk To Action story referenced above (~4,000 words), please see my truncated Alternet version, Burning Mormon Scripture? Rick Perry’s “Mormon Problem” Gets Bigger.