A Christian rehabilitation centre for women would not be shielded from a discrimination claim for turning away a biological male who identified as female under the governments draft laws upholding religious freedom.
Australian Christian Lobby managing director Martyn Iles warned that activists were increasingly using discrimination law and gender identity as a “weapon” to force religious bodies to compromise their beliefs.
In one, a biological male who identifies as female threatened a discrimination action after being subjected to a second interview for admission to a Christian women’s residential rehabilitation program.
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