The Religious Freedom Bill, Delayed Again By Mrs Vera West

Over six years ago Labor and the Greens joined to defeat the proposed freedom of religion Bill. Governments since have toyed with a revised version, and at present the Bill under the Albo regime has been delayed once more. At stake is whether faith-based schools have the freedom to employ staff who share parents' beliefs on issues such marriage and the science and politics, if not theology of gender.

As we know, the powerful lobbies who have vast controlling influences upon the political parties, oppose this basic freedom. They want to see religious schools being required to employ teachers who support the present woke ideologies. As noted below at the Good Sauce, this will mean an end to these schools. Many of these schools have high level fees the parents are prepared to pay to save their children from what goes down in the public school system. So, a lot is at stake here, and given that the woke lobbies have so much power, it can only be met by wide spread opposition from the ordinary people, who need to contact their local member now, and get everyone else to do so as well.

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"It's been more than six years since Liberal and Labor promised protections for freedom of religion after this fundamental human right was smashed by the re-definition of marriage in law.

Pressure on faith-based schools, churches, charities and faithful Christians in woke workplaces has mounted as society's gender norms have been upended.

The Turnbull and Morrison governments dragged the chain until a bill was finally put in the dying days of the Morrison government only to be scuttled by Liberals joining with Labor and the Greens to defeat it.

The Albanese Government is yet to present its promised bill but Attorney General Mark Dreyfus announced this week it has now been delayed until July.

Meanwhile the Government is sitting on a revised report into religious schools from the Australian Law Reform Commission.

The original version released last January recommended stripping faith-based schools of the freedom to employ staff who share parents' beliefs on issues like marriage and the science of gender.

After an outcry, the Albanese Government told the ALRC to revise it, something that took the rest of 2023.

Ominously, union leaders who essentially control Labor have warned the Albanese Government this week they would oppose moves to allow faith-based schools to favour the employment of teachers who believed what parents believed on marriage and gender.

If faith-based schools are not allowed to employ staff who share the faith, including on matters of marriage and the science of gender, it will be the end of faith-based schools in Australia.

With no serious champions in the major parties sustaining a public argument for freedom of speech and religion, it is difficult to see anything meaningful emerging this July.

The LGBTIQA+ political lobby has controlled the agenda since marriage was redefined and is intolerant of those who wish to organise schools, religious organisations and workplaces around a different understanding of marriage and gender.

Liberal and Labor are essentially on-board with the LGBTIQA+ view of the world.

It's been six long years since Malcolm Turnbull, at the urging of former Prime Minister John Howard during the height of the same sex marriage debate, agreed to protect the freedoms of those who believed in the gender diversity requirement for marriage and the biological gender binary.

It will be close to seven years before Mark Dreyfus unveils the latest attempt to put Humpty back together."