New legislation in NSW may create headaches for religious education.

Discrimination is an ugly phenomenon. When someone misses out on a job, or is abused or not served in a shop because of their sexuality, or disability or gender, our society suffers. The dignity and humanity of those who are discriminated against suffers. The dignity and humanity of those who perpetrate the discrimination suffers. In fact, the dignity and humanity of us all suffers. (Lee Rhiannon)

discrimination: the perceiving, noting, or making a distinction or difference between things the making of distinctions prejudicial to people the power of observing differences accurately (Oxford English Dictionary)

Lee Rhiannon made the comments above in a speech launching a NSW Greens Private Member’s Bill which seeks to change NSW anti-discrimination law and which, if passed, will give private schools and some religious organisations less say over who works for them.

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