The Litter Box
~ Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Mr Chris Puplick, the president of the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW, said that the proposed ban on proselytising would not be considered as religious discrimination because it was directed at Christians. Only religions associated with ethnic groups—such as Islam (Arabs), Judaism (Jews) and Hinduism (Indians)—are protected under the Anti-Discrimination Act. Further, he said:
‘The Anti-Discrimination Board has always believed that we should have comprehensive law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of all religious belief.’
But he said that the present Labor Premier of NSW, Bob Carr, had rejected a submission by the Law Reform Commission to rectify this anomaly, so:
‘… as a result of deliberate government policy, it is still lawful in this state to discriminate against people on the basis of their being Christian.’
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