THE influential Australian Christian Lobby has politically endorsed Tony Abbott and the Coalition for their “integrity” on traditional marriage a week after saying Julia Gillard had lost integrity and trust over broken promises.
Jim Wallace, ACL managing director, wrote to all Coalition MPs and senators yesterday to “congratulate the Coalition on its keeping its election promise on marriage” and accusing the Greens and Labor’s Left of wanting to “destroy the sacred meaning of marriage”.
“In standing for marriage, the Coalition has demonstrated not only a real sense of responsibility for protecting this time-honoured institution for its foundational value to society and sacred meaning to so many, but also the resolve to honour its election commitments,” the letter says.
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