Perry Wins Key Religious Right Endorsement at Value Voters Summit

Michelle Goldberg reports from the Value Voters Summit on the religious right’s Mormon anxiety.

Published Oct. 7 2011 11:23PM EDT

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Robert Jeffress, Southern Baptist Convention leader and pastor of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, has never endorsed a political candidate, but at the Values Voters Summit on Friday, he announced that he was throwing his support behind Rick

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Perry Wins Key Religious Right Endorsement at Value Voters Summit

Michelle Goldberg reports from the Value Voters Summit on the religious right’s Mormon anxiety.

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