Australia: Daniels pro LGBT agenda for Christian Schools dumped

For years now, ACL supporters like you have been campaigning to ensure that Christian schools are able to maintain their distinctive character and ethos.

The government’s Orwellian-named Equal Opportunity Bill would have restricted the ability of Christian schools to hire staff that shared the values and ethos of the organisation. This would have had dramatic consequences for school communities.

Christian schools make a valuable contribution to our society.

They provide an environment that reflects the Christian values and ethos that parents model to their children at home. I’m proud to report that this attack on religious freedom was voted down yesterday.

This is a tremendous win and I’m so grateful to you for your support over the years as we’ve fought for this important outcome.

The Andrews government's proposed changes to the Equal Opportunity Act would have destroyed the ability of Christian schools to hire and retain all staff on the basis that they are genuine adherents, in belief and practice, to the Christian basis of the school.

Christian schools should be free to integrate a worldview based on religious beliefs and values into all aspects of school life.

And thanks to your emails, petition signatures, prayers and financial support, that will remain to be the case.

And in other good news, a ‘Birth Certificate Bill’ that would have enabled biological males to change their ‘sex’ on their birth certificate to female, merely by stating that they ‘identify as’ a woman, was also voted down in the Legislative Council yesterday.

It is so important that we continue to speak up as a voice for values in our state. I’m so proud of what we have achieved together over the last few years.