Tasmanian Government issued a policy to allow religious schools refuse pupils whose families have a religious background or beliefs different from their school.
The policy changes or amendments contained in the Anti Discrimination Act measures that have been submitted to Parliament Tasmanian Government.
This amendment would exempt religious schools of legal sanctions provisions in the law.
Attorney General Vanessa Goodwin said that this amendment would make the school in Tasmania in line with other countries.
"Anti-Discrimination Amendment Act would allow religious schools to choose to accept students at school only to those who have religious beliefs, affiliations or activities consistent / aligned with the school," said Dr. Goodwin.
One of the school's immediate liberation is the Independent Schools in Tasmania.
Independent School Director, Tony Crehan, said under current law principals can only reject students on the basis of their faith if available class is full.
"Mostly independent schools founded and built at a cost of public schools and often times they are a church-based community," he said.
"They build the school with the goal of becoming an institution that teaches the doctrine of Christianity, that is the reason why they should be allowed to have an exception to the anti-discrimination rules."
However a number of people condemned the amendment. Tasmania LGBT groups call this change as "fanatical Charter 'which will give them special rights school.
Group spokesman Rodney Croome said the proposal would encourage discrimination against a student gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people as well as children of same-sex couples.
"This is because it will give fanatics charter school principals based on freedom of religion to discriminate against gay and transgender students and children same-sex couples under the guise of religion of their school," said Croome.
Crehan assert that this exemption will be misused to exclude children based on sexuality.
"I do not think there will be a massive rejection of the student and of course this amendment will not encourage the attitude of bigotry," he said.
"It is on the basis of religion, not sex or sexual preference."
Source: viva.co.id
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