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I agree with him to a point, although I have a bit of a problem with his pseudo-theocratic, xenophobic, closed-minded attitude.

Australia was founded as a penal colony, not as a "Christian nation". Much as America was founded as a refuge from religious oppression, not a "Christian nation".

I think this quote from the Treaty of Tripoli, endorsed by the early Congress of the United States and signed by John Adams says it well:

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

Given this, and that our founding fathers were deists (not Christians), and that there is ample evidence to indicate that their intent was to permanently isolate church and state I take exception to any implication that the United States should somehow follow Australia's lead on this particular matter.

I look at it this way:

Liberty is pretty much the distance between church and state. Every single time in history that government has mixed or mingled with religion, there has been an erosion of liberty and the rise of tyrrany.

I doubt either Australia or the United States really wants this.