How’s that working out for you Tony? Senator Abetz? P-Dutty? ScoMo was all onside until even he realised what a toxic issue this is, now he’s backing away, and he’s a religious fundamentalist! When you’re too extreme for the Hillsong types that’s how you know you’re losing most Australians. You’ve crashed ScoMo’s religious campaign before it even began by being dickheads. Go right ahead, you’re the best thing going for progressives by being so tactically dumb.

Meanwhile there are a bunch of Sydney Anglican school principals who have their arses on the line because the Liberals have promised meaningful religious freedom reform and they’ve been talked into signing a letter by the archbishop. So Liberal Party, why won’t you deliver? Why not release the Ruddock report which was promised months ago? Surely you’re not terrified by it?

As for the substance of the article, why has none of these Anglicans who want “positive religious freedoms” spelled out what freedoms they do or don’t want? Even the archbishop’s weird example of an ancillary employee (not a teacher) sinning would only survive legal challenge if the school equally refused students whose parents had been involved in similar extra-marital affairs, I’d have thought. They need to spell this shit out in all its legal technicality so we can point out how stupid it is in precise detail.