Posts Tagged Robert Jeffress

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Controversial Perry backer Jeffress has closer ties to U.S. Senate candidate Leppert

By | 10.21.11 | 5:16 pm

A controversial Texas pastor who recently endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry in his run for the presidency, has also championed former Dallas mayor Tom Leppert’s bid for the U.S. Senate.
As the American Independent reported More…, Robert Jeffress, a senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Dallas, got behind the

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Emails show effort by evangelical Perry supporters to promote anti-Mormon rhetoric

By | 10.17.11 | 1:42 pm

While Texas Gov. Rick Perry distances himself from controversial remarks made by Dallas pastor and recent Perry endorser Robert Jeffress, calling Mormonism a “cult,” an email exchange More… obtained by The Daily Beast shows evangelical Perry backers are taking up the anti-Mormon message against Perry’s GOP challenger Mitt Romney.
David Lane,

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Anita Perry says husband has been ‘brutalized’ for faith

By Lynda Waddington | 10.13.11 | 5:22 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Texas First Lady Anita Perry minced few words while speaking in South Carolina Thursday. Her husband and 2012 GOP hopeful, Rick Perry, she said, has been “brutalized.” More…

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Texas pastor and Perry endorser Jeffress has violated tax laws, says Americans United

By Lynda Waddington | 10.12.11 | 10:45 am | More from The Iowa Independent

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State believes a controversial Texas pastor who posted videos of himself endorsing Gov. Rick Perry More… for president on his church’s website has violated federal tax laws.

Rick Perry (Mary Tuma/Texas Independent)

‘Morning in America’ host to Jeffress: ‘You did Rick Perry no good, sir’

By | 10.08.11 | 9:54 am

Bill Bennett, radio host of “Morning in America,” censured Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress during his comments at Saturday’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., criticizing the pastor for statements he made against presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s religion More….
On Friday, Jeffress told TAI: “When the smoke clears it is going to

Texas Gov. Rick Perry at the Values Voter Summit 2011, Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 (AMERICAN INDEPENDENT/Sofia Resnick)

At Values Voter Summit, controversial Texas pastor endorses Perry

By | 10.07.11 | 4:59 pm

UPDATED Oct. 8, with reaction from Planned Parenthood
Controversial Texas pastor Robert Jeffress introduced presidential candidate Rick Perry to the stage at this year’s Values Voter Summit More…, telling a jam-packed ballroom that the Texas governor deserves the presidency because he has a “strong commitment to biblical values.”