I'm agnostic but that's not what I remember from Sunday school. Rudd the plonker is exaggerating as usual.
www.abc.net.au:
Last night on Q&A, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd grossly caricatured the Bible when he suggested that it says slavery is a natural condition. This comment received the most enormous applause of the night, which incidentally seems to indicate both the depth of biblical illiteracy and the hostility to Christian morality. Even a cursory reading of the Bible would tell you it never says slavery is a natural condition. Never. Indeed, the message of the Holy Book is freedom. ...