Mixed messages from the religious LNP
Independent Australia
01 May 2021, 16:52 GMT+10
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Liberal Government haven t tried to hide their religious beliefs, yet have also displayed great hypocrisy, writes Bilal Cleland.
UNDER THE HEADING A major party to protect our religious freedom , then backbench Senator Amanda Stoker, at the time of the 2019 Election, proclaimed:
She went on to claim that the Labor, Greens and left-leaning independents threated such values:
This seems to be a pattern under this right-wing LNP government.
It is not long ago that ASIO altered its call for action against right-wing extremism as a result of Liberal Party protests about the offensive use of the term right-wing .
On Tuesday the Labor leader said that although he had “no intention of making comments on the prime minister’s faith” he objected to “the idea that God is on any political side”.
Albanese said that “for me faith is a personal matter. I respect people’s own beliefs but it is also important we have a separation here between church and state”.
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“I have no intention of making comments on the prime minister’s faith, that is a matter for him,” Albanese told Radio National.
“I think that the separation of church and state is important.
“I think that the idea that god is on any political side is no more respectful than the idea that when someone’s sporting team wins it is because of some divine intervention.”
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