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English: Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Why did Kevin Rudd frame the same-sex marriage debate as a Christian issue? He is suggesting that whatever issues Christians support can not be secular. What nonsense, writes Michael Cook. In a blaze of carefully-scripted publicity, after long and deep reflection, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has endorsed same-sex marriage . The odd thing about the essay in which he explains why he changed his mind is that he has framed the debate as a Christian issue. Rudd describes himself as "a bit of a god-botherer" (aka Christian) who has been seeking Christian reasons to support same-sex marriage. "Given that I am allowed a conscience vote on these issues, then what constitutes for me a credible Christian view of same-sex marriage?" he wrote. This is an odd question for an experienced politician. Surely in the days when Rudd opposed the legalisation of same-sex marriage he was not doin...

Symbol of gay sin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We know how important truth is to this fight, and how so many of our opponents recoil from the very idea of truth. There is no better example than the news this week  that Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson is using taxpayer funding to bring a lawsuit against a small Washington state florist named Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers and Gifts. Stutzman's crime? Refusing to sell flowers for a gay wedding . For this 'thought crime' against gay marriage, her whole livelihood is now put at the stake. It was only a few months ago, before the November elections, when gay marriage advocates were sanctimoniously getting on television and reassuring voters that our claims of the religious persecution that comes hand in hand with redefining marriage were unfounded. Made up. Untrue. They knew at the time they were not telling the truth.Because now, just a few months later, the ACLU and a State Attorney Gen...