The WA Equal Opportunity Commission’s public forum last month on political correctness has acknowledged the need to protect religious freedoms.
The forum, which was attended by a hundred guests and addressed by Dr Anne Aly, Professor Gillian Triggs, Dr Peter van Onselen and Peter Abetz resulted in all panellists agreeing that the right to practice religion needed proper protection. Dr Van Onselen said as that, as conservatives became a minority in society, the new majority should avoid “an attitude that because they ruled the roost for such a long time it’s payback time. That’s not a good attitude, and I hope we don’t see too much of it.” Peter Abetz agreed with the Commission’s summary of the event, saying he was “pleasantly surprised” the other three panellists agreed that protecting freedom of religion and conscience was important. He said it was good to see acknowledgement that exemptions to anti-discrimination laws were an inadequate way of maintaining religious freedom.
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