Church and state clash over equality laws
By THEAGE.COM.AU
Added: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:00:00 UTC
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http://www.theage.com.au/national/church-and-state-clash-over-equality-laws-20090718-dozx.html
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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