Louise Pratt, outgoing Labor senator, has used one of her last speeches in parliament to demand the schools chaplaincy program not go ahead. Citing a survey targeted at the LGBT to tell their stories of school chaplaincy, she relates some of those stories.
I have no idea what the High Court will decide, but surely this abomination of a program cannot go ahead in such a secular country as Australia. Fucks sake, think of the children!
Of course don't expect any truth from the gov about this. Again they will argue that it's all OK; that black is white.
The High Court will on Thursday rule whether the $245 million chaplaincy program, and a raft of other government programs, is constitutionally valid.
In a speech to the Senate on Tuesday night, Senator Pratt, who lost her seat at the April Western Australian Senate re-run, said: “I know some great chaplains - they work with love and authenticity, doing wonderful things for our young people. But on a national level we must face the fact that our chaplaincy program is failing Australian young people.”
Senator Pratt said an online survey by gay rights group All Out, which attracted 2200 responses, had uncovered dozens of firsthand student accounts that describe chaplains as being “explicitly anti-gay”.
One respondent said their school chaplain had described gays and lesbians as “unnatural, indecent and perverse”. Another said a gay friend had overdosed on medical pills after their school chaplain said being gay was a “degrading sin” that sends people to hell.
“As well as the two stories I have just quoted, students described chaplains helping them to 'pray the gay away' and advising them to sleep with a member of the opposite sex to 'correct' their same-sex attraction,” Senator Pratt said.
“One very serious story involved a student being told by a chaplain that they should leave home because they had homosexual parents . . . Regardless of the outcome [of the High Court challenge], it is important to see this program stopped.” Read more
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