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Why I’m speaking out about discrimination in Christian schools

By David Patterson

I’ve worked for the Christian Schools Australia (CSA) network as a finance and risk manager for a number of years. Close family members have also had decades of experience working in this network. So I’m talking here from both a personal experience but also a collective experience.

It is a Christian duty and a moral human duty to speak out against injustice, regardless of the rejection that it may cause at times. And that’s why I am writing this piece about the discrimination that takes place in faith-based schools – discrimination that is funded by taxpayers.

In faith-based schools, we have institutionalised discrimination, enabled through state-based exemptions to anti-discrimination laws and funded by the taxpayer while the broader community remains unaware.

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"Religious rights do not sit above human rights; they sit alongside human rights. In these Christian schools and in this network, however, religious rights trump human rights, especially when it comes to the human rights of LGBT people and the rights of those who affirm LGBT people."
David Patterson

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