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I was having lunch with a friend of mine who is a mental health professional.  Okay, so quit laughing.

Anyway, this friend and I were discussing Rick Perry’s upcoming Come To Jesus and Vote Republican Tent Revival and she asked me, “Do you think Rick Perry has a messianic complex?”

“No,” I replied, “he’s too dumb to have anything complex.”

Reliant Stadium is big enough to hold an indoor deer hunt.  Rick is planning on filling it with people to holler at Jeeesus and to adore Rick Perry.  I’m not saying his ego is big, but you could use it to jump-start a nuclear submarine.

First off, let me explain that this is a pray and don’t eat all day function.   That’s just damn unTexan.  In Texas, you can’t have any manner of people gettin’ together without food being involved.  Even Juanita knows that every child in Texas learns to eat fried chicken on a blanket on the church grounds.  And, most Baptist churches in Texas have a bigger reception hall than sanctuary.  Covered dishes are a sacrament in Texas.

So, in order to fill up Reliant Stadium, Rick Perry has had to associate with some odd groups.  Like, for odd example, The American Family Association, which is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

AFA insists that the “seculars” pick on them because they are Christians.  There is hardly nothing creepier than whiny extremist Christians.  Ho Boy, you’d think we were feeding them to the lions daily.  They think gay people are gay just to piss them off, and women only want equal pay for equal work because it’s anti-Christian.

So, AFA insists they are normal and all the rest of us are crazy.  Not even to mention that hell thing.  Rick Perry says that all people of all faiths are invited to his Six Flags Over Jesus event, but maybe not.

But Wildmon, AFA’s president, stressed the Christian nature of the event and said people of other religions were “free to have their own events.” He insisted his group did not hate anyone, but he said that people who do not embrace Christianity were headed for eternal damnation.

“It’s not just Jews or Muslims,” Wildmon said. “It’s anybody that rejects the free gift of salvation through Christ. The Bible teaches there’s heaven and hell. Those who believe go to heaven. Those who don’t go to hell.”

Don’t you think he seems a tad too gleeful about all this going to hell stuff?

But, Rick Perry is running for President so his giveadamner is broken.  He’s willing to cahoot with anybody who can get warm bodies to Reliant Stadium.

One other thing:  Rick says this event will not be political.  The event coordinator is Wayne Hamilton.

Wayne Hamilton is the founding partner of San Jacinto Public Affairs. Hamilton was senior aide to Congressman Joe Barton as well as serving three State Chairmen. He served as Governor Rick Perry’s Executive Director of the 2003 and 2007 Texas Inaugural Committees and currently working with events and consulting for the Governor in Austin, Texas.

Yeah, sure.  Not political.  Not at all.  Nope.  Not. political.