Proposed laws will allow the faithful to bypass anti-discrimination legislation
works in mysterious ways. For Christian leaders of a conservative bent, recent decades in Australia have seen what the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Glenn Davies, calls a “militant secularism” deal repeated blows to the devout. The most notable is the legalisation two years ago of same-sex marriage, after a postal survey showed Australians to be overwhelmingly in favour. The passage of a bill on October 2nd making it easier to get an abortion in New South Wales is another.
Many of the provisions work in just the same way as laws against discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability and so on. But as well as serving as a shield, the proposed legislation also acts, as Luke Beck of Monash University puts it, as a “sword”. People could take actions on the basis of their beliefs that would clearly fall foul of other anti-discrimination legislation, without consequences.
The Australian Human Rights Commission, while approving of the protective provisions in the legislation, is concerned about the assertive ones. Others have joined it. Such provisions may well be watered down. But the fact that the bill has made it this far is striking, given Australia’s growing godlessness. In the most recent census, in 2016, 30% said they had no religion, compared with 22% five years earlier.
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