Deputy prime minister defends Morrison and renews calls for the mystery minister allegedly behind text messages to put their hand up
Yesterday Brusbanes Citipointe Christian Christian school announced that it would withdraw its demand that families sign anti-gay and anti-trans enrolment contracts prior to the new school year.
Scott Morrison promised on Brisbane radio station B105.3 that his anti-religious discriminations, designed to shield religious people from discrimination claims, will be accompanied by changes to stop schools discriminating against same-sex attracted and gender-diverse students.
I’ve been saying that for years, that’s always been my view,.
Can you clarify the prime minister’s comments yesterday? Will the government introduce changes to the Sex Discrimination Act next week to repeal the section [section 38] allowing religious schools to discriminate against LGBTQ students?
There is certainly a group of people in our community who are pushing for that and I can understand the enthusiasm for seeing that done quickly.
But, I would suggest the original plan to make sure that we legislate the religious discrimination act first, and then change section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act, which is the provision that was inserted by Mark Dreyfus under Labor to empower the kinds of behaviours we’re trying to correct here.
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