Discrimination and Opposition to Same Sex Marriage in Tasmania

Posted on September 28, 2015 
Filed under Opinion

Assoc Prof Neil Foster“There are press reports… that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart is being sued under s 17 of Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 for causing “offence” or “humiliation”.

This was alleged to have been done by the Archbishop causing to be sent to Roman Catholic schools in his diocese, a booklet outlining the church views on marriage, and in particular expressing the well-known opposition of the church to the introduction of same sex marriage…”

– Neil Foster writes at Law and Religion Australia with some context for what’s happening in Tasmania.