Church of God of Prophecy
They moved to Southern California, where he pastored a Church of God of Prophecy. After Perry's wife found his copy of "The Homosexual in America" by Donald Webster Cory hidden under the mattress, their marriage quickly dissolved. They divorced after five years of marriage. Perry was directed to pray about being led astray by his homosexual feelings and later was told by his bishop to renounce himself in the pulpit and resign. Perry worked in a Sears department store and was drafted for the army in 1965, during which time he served two years in Germany.