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The Australian Christian Lobby has a new target – the Victorian government’s proposed law against conversion practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation …

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has refused to condemn former Wallabies player Israel Folau for his latest public comments, which linked Australia’s bushfire crisis to …

Controversial footballer Israel Folau has been announced as the headline speaker at this year’s Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) conference in Sydney, which has the theme …

The Australian Christian Lobby has expressed concerns that the Morrison Government’s draft Religious Discrimination Bill does not go far enough in the license that it …

A Qantas spokesperson said Folau’s comments “are really disappointing and clearly don’t reflect the spirit of inclusion and diversity that we support.”

“Freedom needs to be protected – including and especially the right to dissent from the rainbow gender-fluid world view,” Lyle Shelton said.

The Australian Christian Lobby is encouraging school students to sign an open letter to Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten calling for religious exemptions to be preserved in the Sex Discrimination Act.

Project Rockit’s website states its goal throughout its 10 years has been “empowering school students to stand up to hate” and “building student voice, leadership and empathy”.

The report states that there are currently at least ten organisations currently promoting ex-gay and ex-trans therapies in Australia and New Zealand.

Just 26 per cent of those polled said they opposed the idea, with 37 per cent undecided on the issue.