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Sunday 19 May 2008 The Church would be in favour of eliminating discrimination wherever possible, wouldn’t it? So, wouldn’t you support moves to strengthen the law in this area? Catholics may encounter rhetorical questions of this kind if they raise their head up in a discussion on the Victorian Government’s reviews of the Equal Opportunity Act.
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Victorian Bishops make submission to the Equal Opportunity Review on Options Paper.

Monday 12 May 2008

Archbishop Denis Hart last week made a submission on behalf of the Catholic Bishops of Victoria to the State Government's Equal Opportunity Act Review's Options Paper.

Thursday 8 May 2008

A Canadian commission has "brazenly attacked" the rights of some in an attempt to protect the rights of others, said the editor of a Canadian national Catholic magazine.

Fr Alphonse de Valk, editor of Catholic Insight, gave this analysis of a 15 April ruling by the Ontario Human Rights Commission in the case of Christian Horizons.

The evangelical Christian organization is a Kitchener-based service group for the disabled. It lost a case with Connie Heintz, one of its former employees and a lesbian.

Archbishop Denis Hart made a submission to the Equal Opportunity Act Exceptions Review on 18 April 2008.
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Archbishop Hart’s Submission to the Victorian Government’s Equal Opportunity Review

Executive Summary of Archbishop Hart’s Submission to the Victorian Government’s Equal Opportunity Review

This response to the invitation for comment on the Equal Opportunity Review Discussion Paper of November 2007 is made on behalf of the Catholic Church in Victoria, and with the approval of Most Reverend Denis J Hart DD, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and the Metropolitan of the Province of Melbourne (the State of Victoria), and on behalf of the Bishops of the Diocese of Ballarat, the Diocese of Sandhurst and the Diocese of Sale.