As Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R-Secede or Lead!) prepares to formalize his peekaboo participation in the GOP presidential primary, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has produced a jaw-dropping profile of Perry’s preacher pals who endorsed his Prayer-apalooza last weekend.

(Perry at his National Prayer Rally:)

Maddow’s deconstruction of Perry’s links to the New Apostolic Reformation movement is both thorough and thoroughly frightening. She credits the Texas Observer’s current Rick Perry’s Army of God feature for many of the particulars.

Read it and creep.

(Oddly, the Texas Observer site won’t load right now – the hardclicking staff has tried over a dozen times. Divine intervention?)