REASON FOR GUTTING SCHOOL CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM*

by Terri M. Kelleher

Upper-house MP Fiona Patten of the Reason Party (formerly Sex Party) recently introduced her Education and Training Amendment (School Employment) Bill into the Victorian Parliament.

Ms Patten claims her Bill is to prevent religious discrimination in the engagement of chaplains in Victorian government schools. She says that a person has to be a Christian to be employed as a chaplain and that is discrimination against persons of other religions, Muslims, Hindus and Jews,…

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