Secular Café: OZ: Gillard's bizarre act of faith leaves vulnerable unprotected

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OZ: Gillard's bizarre act of faith leaves vulnerable unprotected Jan 14th 2013, 16:55 Quote: I hesitate to say this but the Prime Minister is living in sin. I don't give a damn. Nor do most Australians. But that sort of thing bothers religious leaders. So much that Labor's Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill will renew their authority to bar anyone in Julia Gillard's shoes from any job in any of their schools, hospitals and charities, even those they run with public money. It's a curious spectacle, a prime minister legislating against herself. Only school funding is as heavily defended by bishops, orthodox rabbis and imams as the "freedom" to punish these sinners in the workplace. Should she wish to work some day as, say, a cleaner in an Anglican hostel, she could solve the problem by marrying. But the woman who will be shepherding the legislation through the Senate really hasn't a hope. The new law will back any faith-based organisation that refuses to hire Penny Wong if having a lesbian on the payroll injures "the religious sensitivities of adherents of that religion". Legislating against herself ... This is not a summer spoof. Nor is it a distant symbolic issue like gay marriage. This is here and now. The bill is before a Senate inquiry. At present it will leave unprotected a long list of ordinary Australians working or wanting to work with some of the biggest employers in the country. Most conservative faiths have most of the following on their lists of the sackable: gays and lesbians, single mothers, adulterers - yes, even adulterers! - bisexuals, transsexuals, the intersex and couples like Gillard and Tim Mathieson. cont.... http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/pol...113-2cnf0.html WTF?!?! I wonder if this cuts both ways, can an atheist sack a religions person for being wrong? Sounds like an omnishambles in the making...

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