By: Cassie

We are currently in an interesting position in Australia at the moment; we all have individual state laws which make discrimination based on LGBT*Q illegal, but there is yet to be one whole federal law. On top of this, there are specific exemptions to the laws; for example, here in Victoria, under the Equal Opportunities Act 2010, religious institutions (surprise, surprise!) are still allowed to commit discrimination on the basis of sexuality. My personal favourite excerpt from the EO Act is this gem: 'Religious bodies and religious schools can also allow a person to discriminate against another person on the grounds of the person's religious belief or activity, sex, sexual orientation, unlawful sexual activity...' Essentially putting us homogays in the same category as people who have committed indecent sexual crimes.