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Australia: Homosexual seek abolition of all church exemptions to anti-discrimination laws

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Religious schools should be forced to hire LGBTI teachers and all church exemptions to anti-discrimination law should be abolished, the "yes" campaign has told Philip Ruddock 's religious freedom inquiry. As major churches push to have their existing exemptions codified in a new law, the immoral sinful homosexual marriage victors have asked for those rights to be repealed to "prevent discrimination " by religious groups. Churches currently enjoy the right to hire and fire on the basis of gender and sexuality, in line with their religious teaching, as a Western Australian school did with a sinful homosexual relief teacher in October last year. But the Immoral Homosexual Campaign - joined by a prominent group of NSW politicians - wants those rights unwound or at least pared back to apply only to priests, ministers and bishops. "Our primary position is that the religious exemptions that allow discrimination against LGBTI people in employmen...