Peter Costello curries more favour with Religious Right
Posted by Angie on Sat 24-Jun-2006 at 12:00 pm
If you want to see Peter Costello making a stirring, keynote speech you should hurry along to the Australian Christian Lobby’s (ACL) ‘Building a Nation of Character’ conference in September. Costello was a big hit at Brian Houston’s Hillsong church in 2004 and 2005 and is doing all he can to maintain his image as a Religious Right poster boy.
Fundamentalists and Pentecostals love being courted by Coalition frontbenchers and quickly forget about little lapses, like voting to strip Tony Abbott of his veto power over the RU486 abortion drug. You know, like Costello did. Because his conscience told him to. Nothing to do with most electors supporting the availability of RU 486, and safe, legal abortion in general.
But that’s water under the bridge. After all, Costello says he likes the Ten Commandments and the Judaeo-Christian heritage and young happy-clappies and all the right things. It hardly seems to matter that he’s a … POLITICIAN.