They say religious schools don’t expel LGBTQI students because of their sexuality – so why do they want to keep that power? | michaelkoziol
, not another inquiry down the track. They want the relevant section 38 of the Sex Discrimination Act removed in exchange for their support for a Religious Discrimination Act that would give stronger legal protection to ordinary people expressing faith-based views.
A protest on Oxford St against discrimination against LGBTQI including changes to the religious freedom discrimination bill in 2020.“Nobody’s trying to expel them,” said ACL deputy director Dan Flynn on a recent episode of the Christian podcast. “There is no Christian school [and] there is no peak body of Christian schools saying we would expel a same-sex attracted child. But what they are saying is they want to run the school in accordance with their ethos and the expectations of the parents.
Steenhof was concerned religious schools would not be able to limit the expression of a student’s same-sex attraction or “gender confusion”. He worried they could be forced to “allow children to engage in LGBT activism” and “allow hostile LGBT advocates to run the wellbeing program”. Asked if there might be a way to change the law so that LGBTQI students could not be expelled or turned away, but could still be subject to behavioural rules, Spencer says it was too difficult as the law “tends to be a blunt instrument”. Religious schools need the power to deal with these issues carefully, sensitively and “without the shadow of the law all over them”, he says.
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