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Religious views of Kevin Rudd
Rudd and his family attend church in his electorate. Although raised a Catholic, Rudd began attending Anglican services in the 1980s with his wife.[4] Like John Howard, Rudd has addressed congregations of the Hillsong Church.
Rudd is the mainstay of the parliamentary prayer group in Parliament House, Canberra. [71] He is vocal about his Christianity and has given a number of prominent interviews to the Australian religious press on the topic.[72] Rudd has defended church representatives engaging with policy debates, particularly with respect to WorkChoices legislation, climate change, global poverty, therapeutic cloning and asylum seekers.[73] In an essay in The Monthly, Rudd writes:
A Christian perspective on contemporary policy debates may not prevail. It must nonetheless be argued. And once heard, it must be weighed, together with other arguments from different philosophical traditions, in a fully contestable secular polity. A Christian perspective, informed by a social gospel or Christian socialist tradition, should not be rejected contemptuously by secular politicians as if these views are an unwelcome intrusion into the political sphere. If the churches are barred from participating in the great debates about the values that ultimately underpin our society, our economy and our polity, then we have reached a very strange place indeed.[74]
He cites Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a personal inspiration in this regard.[75]
In late January 2007, Tony Abbott - a former seminarian and federal minister for health under the coalition government - criticised Rudd's use of Christianity in Australian politics,[76] contrasting Rudd's public appeal to Christian values with his voting record on issues such as the introduction of the abortion-inducing drug RU486.[77]
Rudd is opposed to same-sex marriage:
I have a pretty basic view on this, as reflected in the position adopted by our party, and that is, that marriage is between a man and a woman.[78]
Despite this, he has announced that unlike the previous Liberal/National Coalition government, he will not take action to block the Australian Capital Territory from introducing a civil union scheme which would cater to all couples regardless of sexual orientation.[79] |
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