He said his decision to back gay marriage was made after "years of reflection in good Christian conscience".
"I do not believe people when they are born choose their sexuality. They are gay if they are born gay," he said.
"You don't decide at some later stage in life to be one thing or the other. It is how people are built. Therefore, the idea this is somehow an abnormal condition is just wrong. I don't get that. I think it is a completely ill-founded view."
Australians will be heading to the Polls on Saturday to vote in our Federal Elections. Prime Minster Rudd has pledged to take the first steps towards legalising same-sex marriage if he wins another term. He will be attempting to win a third term for the Labor government but Opinion polls are predicting a win for the Coalition.
Kevin Rudd makes passionate defence of his support for gay marriage in Q&A appearance - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Could not have said it better myself.
I'd also like to know how Christians manage to blow past "that you love one another as I have loved you," in the interest of denigrating gays.
Kevin Rudd makes passionate defence of his support for gay marriage in Q&A appearance - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Could not have said it better myself.
I'd also like to know how Christians manage to blow past "that you love one another as I have loved you," in the interest of denigrating gays.
Mathew 19:3-6
English Standard Version (ESV)
3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” I think he's preety clear on what marriage is.
That being said I don't think the solution is the removal of gay marriage but marriage in general from government control.
As long as straights can marry, then gays should be able to as well.
Yeah and that's why I'm for getting marriage out of the hands of government because its not something they should be involved with in the first place.
Well, that's not happening any time soon. So right now, gays and straights should have the same right, privilege, or whatever the **** you wish to call it.
Kevin Rudd makes passionate defence of his support for gay marriage in Q&A appearance - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Could not have said it better myself.
I'd also like to know how some Christians manage to blow past "that you love one another as I have loved you," in the interest of denigrating gays.
Gays are born, full-stop, period.
Mathew 19:3-6
English Standard Version (ESV)
3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” I think he's preety clear on what marriage is.
That being said I don't think the solution is the removal of gay marriage but marriage in general from government control.
So you support banning divorce?
So you support banning divorce?
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