Don't you just love the hypocrisy of the Right? Providing the kids of same-sex parents with a supportive environment at school is blasted as "social engineering" and sets off a moral panic among the talkback set and tabloid readers.
Funny then, that a plan to pay for chaplains to be included as staff in government schools as part of the Coalition's "national framework for values education" (as opposed to spending the money on something more useful like, I don't know, installing air-conditioning in overheated portable classrooms, or buying new computers or library books for disadvantaged schools) is seen as an "opportunity for values-based guidance and religious education" instead of an attempt to indocrinate kids with religious myths, and another step in the backwards path towards white-picket-fence 1950's Australia.
Separation of church and state? Not for much longer given our current political climate!
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