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(82,333 posts) Tue Aug 14, 2012, 07:13 AM Aug 2012

Atheist PM to woo Christian lobby

CHRISTIAN KERR
From:The Advertiser
August 14, 20123:03PM

JULIA Gillard, an atheist, is to be a keynote speaker at the Australian Christian Lobby's national conference in October.

The ACL is credited with swinging the 2007 election Labor's way after Kevin Rudd successfully wooed and won support from the body.

But the regular churchgoer Rudd was a very different figure to the self-confessed atheist who took his job.

Ms Gillard's presence at the conference has already provoked an angry response from supporters of same-sex marriage.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/atheist-pm-to-woo-christian-lobby/story-fn59niix-1226450182545

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