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Over the past few years, Catholic schools have been the targets of people and organizations who seek to use the schools as a way of attacking the Church’s teachings, particularly those on human sexuality. Typically, what happens is that the school, either in ignorance or out of guilt felt by school administrators over Church teachings, hires a homosexual teacher or administrator or staff member. After some period of time, that person “comes out” with a “domestic partner.”  Then the school is forced to either accept the scandal of the Church employing someone living, in legal parlance, “openly and notoriously,” in violation of Church teachings or fire them and become the latest “intolerant Catholic school” story. Now we have another of those stories emerging. (h/t to our new colleagues at pjmedia.) A homosexual couple tried to enroll their child in St. Ann Catholic School in Prairie Village, a suburb of Kansas City, KS. This presented the school with a major problem. Either accept

A media outlet here in Australia has released what it says are the 20 recommendations made by the  Expert Panel on Religious Freedom  chaired by the Hon Philip Ruddock. The Report itself was delivered to the Government in May 2018 but has not officially been released. Apparently, the Government is planning to release the Report at the same time as announcing its official response. The main issue which has generated controversy during the last week, in which there was a selective leaking of some of the recommendations, were proposals dealing with the rights of  religious schools to take into account the sexual orientation of students  in certain areas. The changes proposed were not radical changes to the existing law, but were presented as such when first publicized Background- religious schools and discrimination Commonwealth law has for some time prohibited discrimination on certain specific grounds, limited because the Commonwealth needs specific “treaty” justification fo