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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 “...

Years ago, I was assigned to write a series about the huge growth of Christian colleges in the United States and I got to select the 10 I wanted to profile. To no one’s surprise, four of them were in California because I wanted to go someplace warm. While enjoying the March sunshine, I also learned there are tons of Christian colleges all over the state, ranging from a Nazarene university on the ocean to a Catholic college in the orange groves east of Santa Barbara. Religious higher education is a huge industry in the Golden State and this has been the case for decades. Sports and civil rights are important too, as everyone knows. That's why journalists everywhere, including California, did that full-court press the other day following the death of boxer Muhammad Ali. However, the media – even newsrooms in California – seem to be ignoring a bill going through the California state legislature that would have a huge impact on dozens of religious colleges in the state and, even...