The Age reports today:
A CONTROVERSIAL review of Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act is threatening to become a political headache for the Brumby Government, with many churches, religious leaders, parents and private schools vowing to defend discrimination based on faith.
The parliamentary review, covering all areas of discrimination — including whether private men’s clubs can continue to exclude women — has sparked widespread alarm among religious Victorians, from the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne to Islamic, Christian and Jewish schools, and faith-based hospitals and aged-care centres.
At stake, these groups say, is their religious freedom to discriminate within churches, schools and church-run welfare services.
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These people were big supporters of anti-discrimination law when it is applied to business or others but they don’t seem to like it when it’s applied to them. They are hypocrites.
Of course there should be no discrimination. Irt is discrimination that isolates and separates groups and causes dissension.
It is about time these barriers were removed.
Why not junk the stupid act all together.
More non-Muslims turning to Sharia courts to resolve civil disputes
http://business.timesonline.co.....ttr=797084
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