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LGBT TANKS WANT TO CRUSH CHURCHES AND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS The Labor Party’s proposed amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act, currently before the Senate, will severely limit the freedom of religious schools and religious adult education institutions which train chaplains, missionaries and in Australia. Summary Contrary to the recommendations of the Ruddock Panel on Religious Freedom, the ALP (Senator Wong) has introduced a Bill into the Senate to amend the Sex Discrimination Act to severely limit the freedoms of: · religious schools and parents who send their children there · religious adult colleges and training institutions for missionaries, chaplains and religious workers (including theological colleges); and · all religious bodies like churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples to provide education services to their members and the public through sermons, religious education classes for children, youth or adults and courses on issues like marriage, family and relationships. The...

LGBT ZEALOTS VIA LABOR AND THE GREENS   WANT TO DESTROY RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS, CHURCHES CHURCH AGED HOME For those following the debates about proposed amendments to discrimination laws removing religious freedom from faith-based schools, the LNP Government has now tabled a number of amendments to  the ALP Bill  released earlier this week. While these amendments are a move in the right direction, there are still some serious concerns about their effect on religious schools and their ability to operate in accordance with their religious beliefs. The Government amendments can be seen on  this page  as separate documents. I will aim to briefly outline the effect of the amendments. I will assume readers are familiar with the  ALP Bill  discussed in my previous blog. 1. Deleting new s37(3) An important amendment, numbered  KQ147 , deletes the part of the ALP Bill which adds news 37(3). That provision is one that I highlighted in my previ...

The NDP’s Education Minister David Eggen has been hard at work on this since the day he took office, launching a two-pronged assault on Alberta’s education system: Transform the curriculum of the public schools, and force the religious schools to either conform to NDP standards or simply destroy them. Christian schools were told that they would be forced to establish Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs at the request of a single student and that it would be illegal to tell parents if their children wanted to join it.  Predictably — and Eggen and his cronies knew this would happen — many religious schools are unwilling to implement these changes due to the fact that these policies directly conflict with the founding principles of Judeo-Christian institutions. As religious schools desperately attempt to fight off these attacks on their identity and beliefs in the courts, Premier Rachel Notley’s so-called Ministry of Education has recently revealed that the initial cannon fire is just the...

For the vast majority of religious schools, it was a shock to learn that they might be allowed to remove a student simply because of their sexual orientation—they had never considered that course of action. However, while that particular issue may have been a storm in a teacup, behind the irrational bullying furor  of the last week, there are much bigger questions that need to be resolved. Like what it means for a religious community to be able to live in accordance with its deepest convictions and beliefs. That is the question the Ruddock Review was asked to address. Changes to discrimination laws could compel faith-based schools to either change their convictions or to close. In a culture increasingly unfamiliar with religious conviction, it can be hard to understand what it’s like to have religious faith. Contrary to the stereotypes, faith usually means serious thought, regular self-examination, times of doubt and times of intellectual wrestle. It also means believing th...

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 “...