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Charlotte King and Andy Burns for ABC Regional Investigations

Religious right roadmap to Liberal Party control revealed as internal ructions over church groups increase

A roadmap outlining how the religious right can "infiltrate" the Liberal Party with "Good Godly" candidates has been linked to a controversial former Liberal candidate and current member of the party's state assembly in Victoria. 

Peter Killin made headlines in 2019 as the former Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Wills and was forced to resign over comments he made about homosexuality.

In a submission to the former federal government's 2018 inquiry into religious freedom, Mr Killin endorsed the views of Presbyterian pastor Campbell Markham, who wrote in 2011 that the "homosexual lifestyle" was "distressingly dangerous" and had "appalling health risks". 

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