It is well known that the leader of the Labor Party, Julia Gillard is an atheist.
It is also well known that the leader of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott is a Christian.
Over the weekend I’ve read some articles and blog posts about what sort of considerations Christians should take into account when deciding who to support for the office of Prime Minister of Australia.
But as we have recently seen, Australians do not vote for a Prime Minister, we vote for a member of parliament.
Now, what is a Christian to do if your local Labor candidate is a Christian and your local Liberal candidate professes no faith at all?
Who do we vote for?
(I suppose the same conundrum exists for atheist voters, as well.)
(And the question is framed from the perspective that if you want to lodge a valid vote in Australia’s compulsory preferential system, sooner or later you’re going to have to pick one or the other.)
Here are links to blog posts by Simone Richardson and Nathan Campbell.
Here are links to articles by John Dickson, Greg Clarke, and Michael Jensen.
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How much does the fact that Abbott is actually a die-hard Catholic, rather than a protestant, come into the equation?
I thought of that, and for the purposes of the exercise decided to disregard it, much the same way I didn’t propose our local atheist candidate was fudging themselves as a ‘sort of agnostic’.