Christian Youth Camp liable for declining booking from homosexual support group
Christian Youth Camp liable for declining booking from homosexual support group The Victorian Court of Appeal has handed down an important and lengthy judgment on appeal from a decision fining a Christian youth camping organisation, and one of its officers, for declining a booking from a homosexual support group.1 In Christian Youth Camps Limited & Ors v Cobaw Community Health Service Limited & Ors [2014] VSCA 75 (16 April 2014) the court, by a 2-1 majority, said that the organization CYC was liable; but by a different 2-1 majority, ruled that the individual who had declined the booking, Mr Rowe, was not liable. Background Facts The complainant organisation, Cobaw, runs a project called “WayOut”, designed to provide support and suicide prevention services to “same sex attracted young people”. The co-ordinator of the project approached CYC (a camping organisation connected with the Christian Brethren denomination) to inquire about making a booking at a Phillip Island