“EQUAL OPPORTUNITY” IN AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION? Or discriminating against religion and against God and against your child’s best interests?
Last week, a new bill was introduced into the Parliament of the Australian state of Victoria, by Attorney-General Rob Hulls.
Called the “Equal Opportunity Bill 2010″, it will restrict further the rights of religious schools to employ who they want.
A religious body will have to show that any discrimination is “reasonably necessary” to avoid injuring the religious sensitivities of adherents of the religion.
Religious schools will be subject to an “inherent requirements” clause, i.e. to justify why it is an inherent requirement for a teacher of, for example, mathematics, for that person to hold the faith and to adhere to its moral principles.
Religious organisations will be forced to justify their position before the well-known Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) – a jaw-dropping prospect for anybody who has had dealings with that charming crowd in the past.
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The bill also gives greater powers to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission to investigate, on its own initiative, “any matter relating to the operation of this Act” — without the necessity of having received any complaint from the public!
One gets the feeling that this government is working stepwise towards the education of all Victorian children being fully free from any acknowledgement of God or of any moral absolutes.
Children are to be convinced in the classroom that their existence is the result of a random series of accidents and is devoid of any purpose or meaning.
Parents serious about their responsibilities now have little option but to home-school their children
The worst they can do is take your children away from you and/or lock you up. Pray daily to God: “Thy will be done.”
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Any Victorian wanting to object to the proposed law can do so by addressing their comments by email to andrew.homer@parliament.vic.gov.au
The government has allowed just 2 weeks for public comment. Submissions close on March 18, i.e. you have until tomorrow to get your comments in.
They obviously do NOT want to hear from you.
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