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...conservative Christian voice within the Coalition" is speaking with "increasing confidence and assertiveness," says Marion Maddox, author of the forthcoming God Under Howard. The Wellington-based academic, who's spent a decade tracing the links between religion and politics in Australia, notes that on election night new Liberal M.P. Michael Ferguson told a TV interviewer "that he loved the Lord. I can't really imagine that happening in any previous election." Says Baptist minister Tim Costello, "The prevailing wisdom that was, 'Don't talk about your faith, they'll think you're a religious fanatic,' is over...
...Greenway, on Sydney's northwestern fringe; and Family First, a three-year-old party of Christians whose second preferences boosted the Coalition vote in several marginal seats. David Marr, author of the anticlerical squib The High Price of Heaven, likely had tongue in cheek when he noted recently that "God is working for the Liberal Party." But that doesn't mean he was wrong...
...Those values have been under sustained attack since the late 1960s, says Bill Muehlenberg, vice president of the Australian Family Association. In that rebellious era, "the importance of authority, family, religion were all chucked out in favor of the idea that God is dead, there are no values, we can all create our own right and wrong," says the Baptist theologian. "We've had a good 40 years of that social experiment, and by every indicator - crime, suicide, pornography, drug abuse - it looks like an experiment that's failed...
...almost an anti-Christian party." An election scorecard compiled by the ACL and other Christian groups gave the Greens 0 out of 26. Labor did little better, with 4. (The Coalition rated 16.) Shadow foreign affairs minister Kevin Rudd, a devout Christian, has expressed outrage at the notion that "God has somehow become some wholly owned subsidiary of political conservatism in this country." Labor needs, he said, to connect with voters "who are searching for some form of certainty in an age of great uncertainty." Social conservatives often lean left on other issues, says Wallace, so the values vote...
...sense of the divine so that we would gather into the communities essential to keeping the species going?" As an atheist turned agnostic turned theist turned Christian, I find myself embracing a theory that both sides find controversial: intelligent design. We are created with the need for God by God. AMY E. MITCHELL Eaton, Ohio