Steph Lentz worked happily as an English teacher at Sydney’s Covenant Christian School for more than three years. But when she told the school she was a lesbian,Over the past seven years, the federal parliament has been repeatedly engulfed in a debate about freedom of religion and whether those laws need to change. But it has never been able to agree and the issue split the Coalition on the eve of the last election.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus on Wednesday insisted the government wanted to work with the Coalition to pass the full package of reforms. “That’s why we’ve commenced discussions with the opposition,” he said. In an attempt to appease moderate Liberals who supported LGBTQ+ kids – and deliver on his promise just months out from the federal election – Morrison said he would
While the government has prepared draft legislation, nobody has seen it yet, so we don’t know all the details. Religious leaders say they fear schools would be forced to hire teachers who “may not share or support the religious beliefs of the organisation” and open them up to litigation. They want to keep their right to hire and fire teachers over issues of belief.
It has learnt that lesson from the Indigenous Voice to parliament debate and will want to avoid a campaign against it by religious schools, which have mobilised against governments at previous elections. On the other hand, the government could be exposed to a political attack from the Greens if it doesn’t do enough to protect LGBTQ+ Australians.
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