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The prcipal of Cipote Christian College Brisbane has doubled down on the school's anti-gay enrolment ntract makg headl.

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BRISBANE’S CIPOTE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE WHDRAWS ANTI-GAY NTRACT BUT FENDS ‘STATEMENT OF FAH’

A Brisbane relig school has whdrawn a ntroversial enrolment ntract sent to parents last week, after a backlash om parents and the broar pots:Cipote Christian College issued parents a ntract requirg them to formally reject homosexualy College Brian Mulheran says the ntract has been whdrawn due to muny ncernsFormer stunt Jared Mifsud said he felt anyone gay at the school was "ostracised"The ntract mand fai nounce homosexualy and that stunts intify by birth genr, or risk beg exclud om the school. Cipote Christian College's ntract scrib homosexualy as a s and par to btialy and paedophilia.

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASKS PARENTS TO SIGN NTRACT THAT ULD EXCLU GAY AND TRANSGENR STUNTS

" 'It was pretty heartbreakg'Gay former Cipote stunt Jared Mifsud this morng told ABC News Breakfast the ntract had left him "speechls", when told the ntract had been whdrawn, he said he weled the move "but I am still very ncerned". "You're already ostracised when to beg gay this school, and I feel like now the kd of language that they've ed is jt stantly sglg out the stunts.

"Mr Mifsud said while he had a group of iends and teachers who were supportive of him durg his time at Cipote, the anti-gay narrative at the school had a lastg impact. "You are nsistently told that beg a homosexual is a s and you will burn hell for the rt of your life.

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WHDRAWS NTRACT THAT ULD EXCLU GAY AND TRANSGENR STUNTS

A Brisbane Christian llege's enrolment ntract that mands fai nounce homosexualy and subscribe to tradnal genr rol is "unacceptable", and a review is unr way to whether the school is breach of s legislative obligatns, Queensland's Edutn Mister pots:Edutn Mister Grace Grace says the matter has been referred to the Non-State Schools Accredatn BoardHuman rights lawyer and LGBTI Legal Service print Matilda Alexanr qutns whether the school's document is legally bdgPrcipal Brian Mulheran says the school sought legal advice draftg the school ntractCipote Christian College, at Cardale Brisbane's east, sent fai a ntract last Friday that said "the llege will only enrol the stunt on the basis of the genr that rrponds to their blogil sex" and asserted that homosexualy, along wh btialy, ct and paedophilia, was "sful" emotnal Edutn Mister Grace Grace, who has a non-bary child, said her partment received plats om parents and stunts at the llege. A parent and teacher at a Brisbane Christian llege that is mandg parents sign a ntract affirmg stunts intify as their birth genr and that homosexualy is "sful", says she is lookg for another school for her child to pots:Prcipal says the new cls allow parents to make an rmed cisn about the schoolThe school sought legal advice before wrg up the new ntractFormer stunt says the ntract giv a '"black and whe" platform to fight agastCipote Christian College on Brisbane's southsi sent fai a ntract last Friday and said parents mt sign the ntract or unenrol their child om the than 26, 000 people have signed an onle petn mandg the llege rell the enrolment ntract, wh anisers argug the school is "g their relig beliefs to openly discrimate agast queer and trans stunts" an e-mail to parents on Friday, prcipal Pastor Brian Mulheran said the new cls the enrolment ntract were clud to "ensure that we reta our Christian ethos, which is the foundatn of what has ma the College what is today" ntract stat "the llege will only enrol the stunt on the basis of the genr that rrponds to their blogil sex" to mata nsistent wh the llege's "Christian Ethos Requirements" go on to state that the llege "acknowledg the blogil sex of a person as regnised at birth and requir practic nsistent wh that sex".

Another clse stat the llege has the right to "exclu a stunt om the llege" should they not adhere to the "doctral precepts cludg those as to blogil sex" keep their child enrolled at the school, parents mt agree wh a set of "relig beliefs" laid out a "Declaratn of Fah" attached to the of the claratn stat that "any form of sexual immoraly (cludg but not limed to; adultery, fornitn, homosexual acts, bisexual acts, btialy, ct, paedophilia, and pornography) is sful and offensive to God and is stctive to human relatnships and society". "I remember when I was school, I would always thk, 'If I was gay, I would never e out' … that would jt be so hard. A Brisbane Christian school says will whdraw s mand that fai sign anti-gay and anti-trans enrolment ntracts prr to the new school cisn before a meetg wh the Queensland schools accredatn Cipote Christian College says “eply regrets” that the ntracts ma stunts feel discrimated agast, the prcipal says the school has the right to mata s ethos and the “eedom to ntue to provi an tn based on our shared beliefs” beliefs – and the statement parents were asked to sign – are taken om the school’s erng body, the Internatnal Network of Church, and s formal “statement of fah”.

It clus statements that homosexual acts were “immoral” and “offensive to God” and that transgenr people would not be whdrawal of the ntract after the prime mister, Stt Morrison, said he “did not agree wh” the school’s e of the document.

THE PRCIPAL OF *THAT* BRISBANE PRIVATE COLLEGE HAS DOUBLED DOWN ON SCHOOL’S ANTI-GAY CONTRACT

It is central to our fah that beg gay or transgenr no way dimish a person’s humany or digny God’s ey. A Christian school the Atralian cy of Brisbane has sparked outrage for requirg parents to sign an enrollment ntract that refers to homosexualy as a s and clus a list of “immoral” behavr alongsi btialy, ct, and pedophilia.

“We believe that any form of sexual immoraly, (cludg but not limed to adultery, fornitn, homosexual acts, bisexual acts, btialy, ct, pedophilia and pornography), is sful and offensive to God and is stctive to human relatnships and society, ” the school document reportedly stat.

“Sign the petn to show Cipote that we will not stand for such blatant transphobia and homophobia, ” wrote Bethany L, the petn’s creator. An Atralian Christian school that ed outrage for requirg parents to sign an enrollment ntract that refers to homosexualy as a s has whdrawn the document.

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