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It’s ‘groundhog day’ - religious discrimination bill under threat again!

By Greg Bondar - posted Friday, 28 April 2023


PM Albanese spoke of his commitment to religious freedom within Australia so if the voting Christian is to believe the PM is sincere, then his government should seriously take up the savage business of religious persecution by fast-tracking the review into the religious educational institutions' review.

Without a Religious Discrimination Bill, religious schools, particularly Christian, are set to:

  • lose their freedom to employ people of their faith,
  • be forced to employ anti-Christian and pro-LGBTIQA+ activist teachers who are hostile to the school's biblical beliefs,
  • have the same activist teachers given the right to teach and indoctrinate beliefs hostile to the school's moral and ethical teachings on the nature of sex, natural marriage, and family, and
  • face a human rights body that may be given authoritarian state powers to investigate religious schools for 'systemic discrimination' said to be the consequence of a school's moral, ethical, and biblical worldview.
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The real issue now is to what extent will the church schools, Christian organisations, and commentators accept the fact that like under Morrison, there is a sense of déjà vu with all of us facing another 'Groundhog Day'.

Christian Voice Australia is committed to holding the Albanese government to account for its promise to have a Religious Discrimination Bill in legislation before the next election - pacta sunt servanda!

 

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Greg Bondar is National Director of Family Voice Australia. He has been working as a senior executive within the not-for-profit, government, and the corporate sector for over 30 years

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