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Legal Protections for Religion Are Protections for Us All

Legal Protections for Religion Are Protections for Us All
Worshippers pray at a service for Pope John Paul II at a Catholic church in Baghdad, Iraq on April, 7, 2005. Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images
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Unless we are vigilant, Australians will soon find that any public declaration or practice of an explicitly religious viewpoint—particularly a Christian one—whether in relation to gender, sexuality, euthanasia, or even history, will be condemned as harmful hate speech. And that condemnation is likely to become ever more bitter.

Peter Kurti
Peter Kurti
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Peter Kurti is an adjunct associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, and has written extensively on issues of religion, liberty, and civil society.
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