Church would defy loss of exemptions

Posted on August 8, 2009 
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Presbyterian Church of Australia logoThe Presbyterian Church in Victoria will defy the law and take the consequences if Parliament removes religious exemptions to the Equal Opportunity Act, a spokesman said yesterday.

The Reverend David Palmer, head of the church’s ethics committee, warned a parliamentary inquiry into the exemptions that changes would create significant conflict between church and state. …

– from Thursday’s The Age. See also Jeremy Halcrow’s post at SydneyAnglicans.net.