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When freedom of religion becomes bullying : Comments
By Dan Haesler, published 3/5/2012The federal government could be complicit in the institutionalised bullying of GLBT children and adults across Australia.
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Rhrosty at his emotive, exaggerating best: " horrendous level of child sex abuse", " almost routinely covered up", " offenders simply "FORGIVEN"".
It is acknowledged that there have been instances of this sexual abuse and administrative failure in immediately dealing with the offenders. The offenders concerned duly have been brought to justice. More appropriate policies for dealing promptly with complaints have since been implemented.
Although the offenders accounted for a very small percentage of staff, and the incidence of sexual abuse in Christian schools is no higher than in public schools, media bias results in far more prominence being given to such cases when Christian schools are involved. Sexual abuse cases in public schools receive little media coverage.