Posted on 02/20/2023 6:20:57 PM PST by marshmallow
An alliance of the nation’s faith leaders is warning the future of religious education is under threat and that their schools will not be allowed to choose teachers who share the same faith under proposed anti-discrimination reforms Source: The Australian.
The group – including more than 30 leaders from the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths – wrote a letter to Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus yesterday sounding the alarm on a controversial reform proposal put forward in late January by the powerful Australian Law Reform Commission.
Under the ALRC plan, principals would be barred from preferencing the employment of teachers with the same beliefs and spiritual outlook as the educational institution.
In their letter, religious leaders warned the new limits on religious schools were “neither expressly nor impliedly called for in the (Government’s) terms of reference” and that faith-based teachers were now at risk of being betrayed by a failure of process.
They said that, under the plan, schools would be forced to hire teachers who “may not share or support the religious beliefs of the organisation” and whose employment could only be terminated when they “actively undermine” the religious ethos of the school.
The ALRC consultation paper proposed that religious educators could only “continue to give preference to prospective staff on religious grounds where the teaching, observance, or practice of religion is, genuinely, a part of the role”. For all other teaching roles – including essential subjects such as maths, science, history and English – it would be unlawful for schools to preference the employment of teachers who shared or were willing to commit to supporting the religious beliefs of the school.
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Australia is way overdue for a bloody revolution.
Western countries are long overdue to revolt and remove the orwellian socialists by brute force and extreme prejudice.
Basically saying Religious private schools cannot bar people of other faiths from teaching or being employed in school.
So a school would be forced to hire only a campus minister and not be able to gate keep if the staff prospective is a “whatever” believer.
It seems like, “Meet the new Caesar, same as the old Caesar.”.
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