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Freedom of conscience, thought and religion - but perhaps not in Victoria : Comments
By David Palmer, published 31/7/2009The proposed amendments to Victoria's 'Equal Opportunity Act' will have a detrimental impact on the guarantee of religious freedom.
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Posted by Shadow Minister, Monday, 3 August 2009 9:41:38 AM
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On this website are two good speakers on religious freedom
http://www.free2believe.org.au Posted by crestall, Thursday, 13 August 2009 8:56:18 AM
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Freedom of religion = the unrestricted right of church schools to force feed their pupils on a particular branch of religion.
Considering that the catholic schools form a considerable chunk of the education system, and receive considerable government subsidy, I am not surprised that their archaic exclusionary principles have begun to rankle with the education departments especially as the catholic schools have moved from being a charitable service to the community to being a profit centre.
The non catholic religious schools do not require the pupils and teachers to follow strict religious adherence.
They cannot claim to be providing a service take the government subsidy and yet both make a profit and produce indoctrinated catholics for the future.