Have you heard Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s response to a local Christian pastor and radio-show host who asked him why people should vote for him after changing his mind on same-sex marriage? Rudd’s response, in the video below, has gone viral all over the world.
Rudd tells the pastor that his position on same-sex marriage comes from his conscience.
“I concluded in my conscience, through an informed conscience, and a Christian conscience, that it was the right thing to do,” Rudd responds to the Christian pastor’s question, live on national TV.
“And let me tell you why. Number one, I do not believe people when they are born choose their sexuality. They are gay if they are born gay — you don’t decide at some later stage in life to be one thing or the other. It is how people are built. And therefore, the idea that this is somehow an abnormal condition is just wrong. I don’t get that — I think that is just a completely ill-founded view.”
The pastor, after hearing the Prime Minister’s comments, appeared a bit stressed when asked why he wants to deny loving same-sex couples the right to marriage. “I just believe what the Bible says,” he concludes.
Then Rudd gets really into it.
“Well mate, if I was going to have that view, the Bible also sys that slavery is a natural condition.”
The crowd cheers.
Rudd quotes the Bible, and says, “and therefore, we all should have fought for the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War.”
Watch:
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The Prime Minister at the end mentions an essay he wrote defending marriage equality. You can read it here.
Hat tip: Upworthy