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• STT MORRISON SAYS GAY NVERSN IS ‘NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME’
• FERAL ELECTN 2022 - ATRALIA VOTPRIME MISTER STT MORRISON SAYS SCHOOLS NOT EXPELLG GAY STUNTS, DOUBL DOWN ON RELIG DISCRIMATN BILL

STT MORRISON SAYS GAY NVERSN IS ‘NOT AN ISSUE FOR ME’

Stt Morrison has claimed gay stunts are not beg expelled om relig schools while fendg his cisn to lay protectns for them until after the passage of the relig discrimatn Labor lear, Anthony Albane, h back at the ments on Sunday, accg anyone who thks young people are not “discrimated and vilified” based on their sexualy of havg views that don’t reflect “realy”. Morrison’s ments rurfaced divisn the Liberal party, wh backbench MP Katie Allen reeratg that she will ntue to support chang “to protect gay and trans stunts” which she labelled “not negotiable” Bridget Archer and Trent Zimmerman also nfirmed to Guardian Atralia their posn remas unchanged.

Morrison is unr prsure over his mment to relig groups to retroduce the relig bill “as stand-alone legislatn” and to refe “any attempts to make chang to other laws that unrme protectns for relig stutns” Febary five Liberal morat crossed the floor to add protectns for LGBTQ stunts to the Sex Discrimatn Act at the same time as passg the relig Coaln shelved s own legislatn as a rult, due to ncern om the relig right that protectns for transgenr stunts would harm their abily to offer sgle-sex Sunday Morrison told reporters Melbourne that the relig bill and chang to prohib expulsn of gay stunts would be pursued “sequentially” proposed Febary, the chang were revealed not to protect trans stunts nor prohib other forms of discrimatn short of expulsn. Morrison repeatedly refed to nomate a timeame for the gay stunt expulsn ban and rrectly claimed the timetable, termed by the ernment, was fact ntaed the relig bill. ”Before the relig bill was bated parliament, Cipote Christian llege asked stunts to sign enrolment ntracts settg out that homosexual acts were “immoral” and “offensive to God” and that trans people would not be ntracts were whdrawn after a storm of ntroversy, wh the school sistg “do not and will not discrimate agast any stunt bee of their sexualy or genr inty”.

Relig schools also claim not to sack teachers over sexualy, although several teachers ttified to a parliamentary quiry that they had been sacked for that immediately ntradicted the prime mister on sequencg of the bills, tellg reporters Melbourne: “I believe you n protect relig eedom and n protect gay and trans stunts [at the same time] – I believe you n. Christian Schools Atralia policy director, Mark Spencer, backed the prime mister’s claim there was “no evince that stunts are beg expelled om fah-based schools simply bee they are gay”. WHEN Chris Csabs was 10 years old and startg to realise he was gay, he was terrified about what meant.

FERAL ELECTN 2022 - ATRALIA VOTPRIME MISTER STT MORRISON SAYS SCHOOLS NOT EXPELLG GAY STUNTS, DOUBL DOWN ON RELIG DISCRIMATN BILL

“From a very young age I grew up a church that talked about homosexualy as a perversn, that was an abomatn, and that people were mon posssed, ” the Sydney rint told “So I was a 10-year-old who thought I had mons me. ”Mr Csabs said he me out to the pastor his church when he was 16 years old and got Christian unsellg until he was 19 years old, when he was troduced to the lear of the Livg Waters Atralia church, which boasted Atralia’s longt-nng nversn therapy church’s lear Ron Brookman, who said he was homosexual for 30 years, clared he had nverted people om gay to nversn therapi the past have volved electroshocks or other physil torture, Mr Csabs said the program he went through was stctured like an Alholics Anonymo meetg.

“We met once a week and went through a manual, that peddled iologi that lbian, gay and trans people are broken and need to be fixed or healed, ” he was this unrlyg msage that was so damagg to Mr Csabs and that he is now tryg to change through a petn agast nversn therapy, which has attracted about 43, 000 signatur sce was posted March.