*quality answer.

shame he's going to lose

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by ChaosEngine.

Totally served in every way possible.

Hes our current prime minister (president...if you will).
I want him to win, cause we will all get fibre to the home....but he wont...:'(

Really curious what is meant by "This is the difference between Australia and America".

Seems really very unrelated to the video.

The implication is that an American politician would instead pander to the religious lobby. It's really more of a difference between America and the rest of the developed world.

And you're right, it's not related to the video.

You wouldn't have and didn't fight in the US Civil war. Someone should break it to this guy that Australia is in fact, not yet a US State.

I think it's fair to assume by "we" he meant Christians, not Australians. If slavery had ever been legal in Australia, and if it had ever been a factor in a conflict here, I'm sure he would have referenced that instead.

I upvoted for the Twitter comment at 1:25.

Fake twitter feeds to make people feel like they actually have a say are pathetic manipulations.

Except we ended DADT, and DOMA and are well on our way to becoming a majority union of SSM.

Yes, there are far too many US politicians who will gladly cherry-pick data from various bibles to confirm their twisted definitions of the religion they prescribe to, but sweeping generalizations like "an American politician" are completely uncalled for any many "American politicians" may warrant some congratulatory statements.

Us in the states aren't completely enlightened yet, but to deny our progress could come off as condescending and irrational.

@Ohmmade
yes, there has been some progress in the US around gay rights, but I think the fundamental difference is that in most of the rest of the 1st world (the UK, Europe, Australia, NZ) politicians generally don't mention their religion. It's considered a private matter.

Whereas in the US, it's almost impossible to get elected without invoking god.

I think the fundamental difference is how politicians in the USpander to religion, even the ones who aren't actively religious. I mean c'mon, we have presidents swearing on the bible and ending speeches with god bless even though it's never required in the constitution and we have a freaking establishment clause right there in the bill of rights.

It certainly wasn't what the founders intended, they were very wary of religion. But hey, thanks to paranoid Joe McCarthy, it's on our money, it replaced our motto, it's everywhere.

we have a ton of politicians who are proud of the idea that they think evolution and climate change are hoaxes

It's starting to change. People who are claiming no religion or atheist/agnostic in America is on the rise, but again We've still got a ways to go before we can make a real push to separate god from gov't.

wtf whoa that dude is a politician... and he.... was making sense... what happened here

I think the major difference is in process not necessarily in the substance.

There is absolutely no way that a person would be allowed to stand up and ask that question at a town-hall-syle-debate in a US presidential race. The campaigns choose who has access to the event; the audience members are required to write down their questions beforehand; and the campaigns choose from among those questions to decide which ones can be asked.

Or, if an American politician did dare to make such a statement, they certainly would not be met by applause.

What's more frustrating is knowing that in all reality, there are TONS of closet atheists/agnostics out there, maybe enough to even make a majority,

But there's just so much family and peer pressure to not rock the boat that progress is slow.

So as usual, it will be another uphill battle for acceptance. Battle after battle may be lost, but the war will eventually be won.

Give that pastor a cell phone and let him jaywalk in Korea!

Tomorrow I'm driving up to Ottawa to the Australian Embassy just to do an oversea's vote. Gotta do my part to try and make sure that cunt Tony Abbott doesn't get in. Unfortunately I hear it's not looking good.

My understanding is that Australia, on the whole, is somewhat more bigoted than the United States.

Have you spent a lot of time here?

But... http://twitter.com/VincoFive/status/374510912775782400

The tweets in the video were actual tweets.