“I’m not going to pretend a faith I don’t feel,” she said.
“For people of faith I think the greatest compliment I could pay to them is to respect their genuinely held beliefs and not to engage in some pretence about mine.”
Julia Gillard has just won me over in one statement. Hallelujah. Someone who has the balls to call this shit for what it is…religion in politics should be banned. Anyone about to be given any power should have to go through a psychological evaluation that eliminates them based on belief in the fairies. Common sense.
Go Julia.