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Flat White

Be an advocate, Prime Minister – not an evangelist

11 September 2018

1:38 PM

11 September 2018

1:38 PM

Scott Morrison has made a good start to his prime ministership. He has gone some way to rallying his divided and dispirited troops, and he has shown a realization that the Liberal party’s place on the values spectrum is centre-right, not centre-left.

But there is one thing that jars about who he is and what he stands for: his membership of the Pentecostalist religious sect, and its espousing of an exclusivist, charismatic brand of evangelical Christianity.

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