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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.