{"id":6124,"date":"2009-07-27T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/a-reader-writes-from-australia\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:53:35","slug":"a-reader-writes-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/07\/a-reader-writes-from-australia.html","title":{"rendered":"A reader writes from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>There\u2019s a push in my home state to stop the exemptions in equal opportunity laws that have allowed the Catholic church (and other religious groups) to make choices on faith\/moral grounds about the people they hire\u2026  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cam.org.au\/equal-opportunity\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Our bishops outline the issues well here<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<p>And some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/opinion\/letters\/reinforcing-what-they-seek-to-avoid\/2009\/07\/25\/1248457703948.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">letters to the editor are here<\/a>\u2026 (including the obligatory \u201cembarrassed Catholic\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>I actually think it\u2019s going to be politically tricky to completely remove the exemptions from religious organisations. But it\u2019s likely they\u2019ll end up with a compromise where for example in schools, people like receptionists\/gardeners etc will come under the anti-discrimination laws, but those with \u201cdirect\u201d contact with the kids won\u2019t\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dunno how this will play out in the US since the theory is still separation of Church and State.  But I expect Caesar will not be able to resist the itch in the long run to force the Church to capitulate and call state-approved sin good.  He is a jealous god, after all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a push in my home state to stop the exemptions in equal opportunity laws that have allowed the Catholic church (and other religious groups) to make choices on faith\/moral grounds about the people they hire\u2026 Our bishops outline the issues well here: And some letters to the editor are here\u2026 (including the obligatory \u201cembarrassed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A reader writes from 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