To remind Mr Morrison,at the last census,only 57.7 per cent of Australians identified as Christian. It would be the opposite of religious freedom to impose Christianity on the other 42.3 per cent of Jewish,Buddhist,Hindu,Muslim,Indigenous religion and no-religion students.
Mr Morrison talks as though Australia has suppressed religion at school but the opposite is the case. The government gives much more support to religious education than in the US,where separation of church and state is written into the constitution.
The federal government gives billions of dollars to faith-based independent schools. Mr Morrison sends his daughters to such a school. Hundreds of millions of dollars are allocated every year to the National School Chaplaincy Program,which is reserved for members of organised religions.
Mr Morrison's use of the term"religious freedom"borrowed from the''no''campaign in the same-sex marriage debate suggests his intention might be to rewrite the Sex Discrimination Act."No"campaigners claim that it is a threat to their religious beliefs if they do not have an exemption which allows them to discriminate against homosexual couples now that the same-sex marriage is legal. Religious bakers could be forced to ice cakes for same sex-couples.
If Mr Morrison wants to change the Sex Discrimination Act it is likely that he will lose this argument for the same reason he lost the same sex marriage debate. Australia voted 62 to 38 for tolerance then and the numbers have not changed.