Catch up on the latest Australian secular news and views with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 10 October 2021.
” …the power of the presidency isn’t the only way Christian nationalism is advancing its agenda in America today… A coalition of Christian right groups have organized a major legislative initiative called “Project Blitz.” Its goal is to pass … Christian-right bills at the state level, whose cumulative impact would be immense.”
An EU campaign has been launched by religious and non-religious groups promoting freedom of belief . They absolutely defend the right of belief through secularism, but not the right to impose that belief on others.
Each state makes it illegal to discriminate against a person on the ground of religion in employment decisions. These anti-discrimination rules apply to public schools and their hiring decisions.
Federal and some state governments have STOPPED COUNTING COMPLAINTS against the school chaplains program and NO STATES KEEP RECORDS of the faith of chaplains.
The Education Department of Victoria has issued a directive clarifying rules on the Australian state’s requirements on secular education which could limit the activities of outside religious groups.
We hold that Australia is currently a ‘soft theocracy’, with the state favouring religious institutions via financial and legislative privileges.
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