Interesting definition. Statement of belief is "of a religious belief held by a person [and] is made by the person in good faith [and] is of a belief that may reasonably be regarded as being in according with the doctrines, tenets, beliefs or teachings of the religion"https://twitter.com/AequoEtBono/status/1166892074928443392 …
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So under this, we're actually looking at an Australian law which may establish that homophobia and bigotry are a genuine religious belief.
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(they are not)
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It seems to push things a step further. You already can't tell me you aren't going to hire me because I'm Catholic. But now you can't do so if it's on the basis of a thing I ostensibly belief because I am a Catholic, with a reasonableness test between that being true or false.
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So I'm not quite sure how we're going to handle what happens if someone says "I believe that all [randomly selected subgroup... redheads?] are thieves because I'm a Sikh." How do we test whether redhead shoplifters are a genuine Sikh belief?
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I suspect you'd never find a Sikh who believes this but Catholics are a large enough group of people that you've got everything on the spectrum from "Gay people are awesome and fine by God, I am gay myself" through to people with beliefs similar to Folau. Which is genuinely held?
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Are both genuinely held? Does this create a protected category of "people who think any random shit and say 'because God'?"
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I can't wait for this to be used in defence by a LGBTQ Catholic kid ordered out of some backwater school in regional QLD who turns around and says it's their genuinely held religious belief that their sexuality is accepted by God.
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Nope won't work. Check out provision 10 - religious organisations are excluded from any discrimination based on this law, so the school is exempt even if the student claims religious belief
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