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Following the news that Prime Minister Morrison will be changing the law to ban religious educational organisations from the right to expel gay students, the ALP has take the opportunity to say that they too will do something even more progressive.
By banning these same organisations from having the right to sack gay staff, a still-standing religious freedom that was afforded to them by Julia Gillard, the second most recent ALP leader, which, funnily enough was only in power like six years and three Prime Ministers ago.
During her stint as Prime Minister, Julia Gillard assured religious groups they would have the ”freedom” to discriminate against homosexuals and others they deem sinners, under a rights bill her government put forward.
Under current law, which was kept completely in tact by three consecutive Labor governments, faith-based organisations, including schools and hospitals, can refuse to hire those they view as sinners if they consider it ”is necessary to avoid injury to the religious sensitivities of adherents of that religion”.
“We vow to change these horrible laws that we staunchly supported in 2013” said Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten, in a press conference today.
“Shame on the coalition government for not doing more to change these laws we created”
“Utter bigotry”
