Concern over chaplaincy program for gay and lesbian students

By Kirsty Needham
Updated September 27 2015 - 1:09am, first published 12:00am
A still from Maya Newell's film <i>Gayby Baby</i>.
A still from Maya Newell's film <i>Gayby Baby</i>.
"Chaplains may place their private spiritual views on [gay and lesbian] issues ahead of the wellbeing of young people they are charged to support": Tim Wilson.
"Chaplains may place their private spiritual views on [gay and lesbian] issues ahead of the wellbeing of young people they are charged to support": Tim Wilson.

Australia's Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has written to the Baird government expressing concern that the national school chaplaincy program could be detrimental to gay and lesbian students.

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