A review of religious freedoms included a recommendation to allow religious schools to discriminate against students on the basis of their sexuality. But the government is rejecting that, and it is strengthening discrimination laws to remove any opportunity for schools to discriminate. "Our government does not support expulsion of students from religious non-state schools on the basis of their sexuality," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement. "I also know that this view is widely shared by religious schools and communities across the country." The Greens plan to introduce their own bill this week to amend the sex discrimination act to protect both students and teachers at religious schools.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 13, 2018 00:07 UTC