The Presbyterian Church of Australia, which oversees two of Victoria’s most elite private schools, has told a review of Australia’s discrimination laws it should be able to refuse students who have pre-marital sex or are gay from becoming school captain.
In a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission , the church group said these students “would not be able to give appropriate Christian leadership in a Christian school which requires modelling Christian living”.
Islamic, Jewish, Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran, Seventh-Day Adventist and Uniting Church groups also made submissions to the inquiry which the federal government established to review Australia’s religious exemptions for schools in its first formal step toward drafting religious discrimination laws. The Presbyterian Church of Victoria also made a separate submission to the review and did not explicitly object to same-sex students becoming school captains, but rejected the review’s proposal barring discrimination against gay students.
“Catholic schools should have the ability to employ and teach according to their faith, while operating with deep care and respect for all students and staff, nurturing and supporting them on their life journeys.”
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