Karen says she was fired by a Christian school due to her sexuality. She's not alone

An Australian Law Reform Commission report on Australia's anti-discrimination laws has been delayed.

The daughter of a pastor, and now an ordained pastor herself, Ms Pack said the experience was damaging.Religious schools in WA can sack a teacher if they are LGBTIQ+. Proposed laws aim to prevent this The expert panel was due to report on Friday, but now has extended that deadline by eight months to 31 December.

"The longer that this inquiry, the findings of this inquiry are delayed - the longer we force students and staff to stay in this dehumanising, harmful environment of self-closeting and community exclusion," she told SBS News. "I found myself in a school where the headmaster would casually drop into conversation at a staff meeting: 'Well I wouldn't employ a gay teacher', and I would find myself slinking into a corner, and a part of me would die inside," he said.

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