Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Gorton akanga ari muKristu wezita kanenge muchikamu chokutanga choupenyu hwake, asi akanga asiri muendi kuchechi. Mamwe manyuko akamuratidza seasingazivi kana kuti kunyange asingatendi kuvapo kwaMwari. Akapinda zvikoro zveAnglican, uye akafurirwa nemaonero echiKristu echiKristu aJames Ralph Darling, mukuru wake paGeelong Grammar. Muhurukuro ya1948, Gorton akati "nhoroondo yechiKristu ndiyo inotyisa zvikurusa munhau yenyika". Zvisinei, mukutungamira kurubvunzurudzo ya1999,
akaramba pachena kududzwa kwaMwari muchirevo. Maererano nomunyori wake woupenyu Ian Hancock: "Gorton angave akanga asiri mutendi, tisingatauri kuti muKristu, uye paakataura nezvorudzidziso rwe'mweya' akanga asina kutenda kwakati mupfungwa. Panzvimbo pezvo, rudzidziso rwake rwakanga rwakavakirwa pamurayiro uri muBhuku raDheuteronomio: 'Munhu haararami nechingwa bedzi.'"