This story popped up as the first thing I read all day. Basically while campaigning for a political party she grouped homosexuals with paedophiles in saying "I don't want gays, lesbians or paedophiles working in my kindergarten. If you don't like it, go to another kindergarten." and was then found to of engaged in vilification by the NSW tribunal board, she was ordered to issue an apology in a nation wide newspaper at her expense. She has refused to do this as of writing.
Now she's taking it to court and is using the bible as a basis of legal evidence:
"In a 21-page written submission, Ms Corbett’s Victorian barrister Marcel White defended his client's comments on legal and factual grounds, referring directly to the Bible as supporting evidence."
The lawyer for a woman who likened gays and lesbians to paedophiles while campaigning for Bob Katter’s Australia Party has told a tribunal bracketing homosexuality with “other notorious kinds of immoral conduct” was a persuasive strategy used by some of the “greatest contributors to Western civilisation’s philosophical understanding”.
This isn't aimed to bash religion, everyone has the right to religion, but how far should/does that belief go when it comes to legal rulings. Does 100% faith in a religious text count as a reason to discount the law? Do you think she has a leg to stand on legally, even in a secular country.
I'm concerned of this setting a legal precedent if it ends up gaining any traction in the court, not that I personally think it will but it's dangerous in a country that already has possible weakening discrimination laws.
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