Australian Christian Lobby: Takes aim at Labor and says Coalition may allow denial of goods and services to gay weddings
The Turnbull government has refused to rule out new exemptions to anti-discrimination law to allow religious objectors to refuse to provide goods and services to gay weddings, Christian schools, Christian charities, camp sites, ministries, aged care etc. The Australian Christian Lobby claims the Turnbull government is open to a new exemption. The ACL has released a voting guide that takes aim at Labor’s promise to hold a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage. It had distributed 67,000 copies of the guide to churches and supporters. The guide claims “there is no discrimination in Australian law against same-sex attracted people”. In its response to the ACL questionnaire used to compile the voting guide, the Liberals ruled out suspending commonwealth anti-discrimination laws in the lead-up to the same-sex marriage plebiscite. State and territory laws were a matter for those governments, it said. The managing director of the ACL, Lyle Shelton, told Guardian Australia it was “disapp