Education, religion, and LGBTQ+ in Australia

Ezzy, Douglas

doi:10.1080/13617672.2023.2206229

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“…Few of the staff, students, and parents who are part of religiously affiliated schools are there because they wish to engage in conservative religious moral practices (Ezzy, 2023). This is consistent with Page and Shipley's (2020) argument that conservative religious authorities continue to use their power to seek to constitute conservative sexual subjects.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…The reasons that parents and students choose these schools are typically not related to religion (Maddox, 2014). Most staff and students who attend these schools are strongly affirming of LGBTQ+ sexualities and genders (Ezzy, 2023). In this context it makes little sense to argue that discriminating against LGBTQ+ staff and students is an exercise in protecting the religious freedom of these staff and students.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most parents send their students to nongovernment schools for the perceived higher quality education they offer, with religious considerations being relatively insignificant (Maddox, 2014). Students at the majority of religiously affiliated schools are only marginally more religious than those at government schools (Ezzy, 2023). However, there is a small group of highly religious schools where the majority of staff, parents, and students are members of the religion (Evans & Gaze, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In 2019, the then conservative federal government introduced the first Religious Discrimination Bill (Australian Government, 2019), with two subsequent versions. The legislation was finally abandoned in 2022 (Ezzy, 2023). Much of the public debate focused on conservative Christian desires to legally discriminate against LGBTQ+ teachers and other employees in religiously affiliated schools.…”

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Educators’ hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia

Fielder,

Ezzy,

Dwyer

2024

Journal of Sociology

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Australian religious conservatives continue to argue that religiously affiliated schools should be able to discriminate based on the sexuality and/or gender identity of students. We argue that this discussion fails to adequately consider the serious harms that discrimination against LGBTQ+ educators has on LGBTQ+ and questioning students. The article uses data from an Australian qualitative study examining the experience of LGBTQ+ educators in religiously affiliated organisations. We describe how heteronormative/cisnormative discourses and discriminatory practices toward LGBTQ+ educators have a direct negative impact on LGBTQ+ students. Even in relatively inclusive schools, the heteronormative and cisnormative climate of the schools is damaging, not only for educators but also for LGBTQ+ students. These serious harms need to be given greater consideration in evaluating the arguments for discriminatory practices in religiously affiliated schools funded by the government to provide education to the general Australian population.

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Educators’ hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia

Fielder,

Ezzy,

Dwyer

2024

Journal of Sociology

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“…On the status of homosexual and other minorities, see for example Zhang & Brym, 2019;Roberts, 2019;Navarro, Barrientos, Gómez, & Bahamondes, 2019;Syahputra, Sandjaja, Afdal & Ardi, 2019;Tolkachev & Tolordava, 2020;Magrath, Batten, Anderson & White, 2022;Okanlawon, 2020;Strachan, 2000;Ezzy, 2023or Karaman, Alagöz, & Fidan, 2022.…”

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Christian Motives in Selected Works with Homosexual Themes in Czech Literature

Mašát

2023

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The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relationship between Christianity and homosexuality based on selected fiction texts by Czech writers and poets (Zeyer, Fuks, Kuběna, Georgiev). The selected authors represent different historical periods and different currents of opinion. We are convinced that the theoretical part provides a suitable methodological basis for the part of the paper in which we discuss homosexual motives in selected works of the mentioned authors. To sum up, we can state that the explicit expression of homoerotic and other motives is only relevant today; in artistic narratives dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries, these symbols are expressed in a hidden way, and it is up to each recipient to decide whether and to what extent they see them in these narratives. Zeyer could not fully express himself; he was forced to use hidden symbols to be who he felt he was, at least in his works. Kuběna, in the context of the 1970s, treats the topic of homosexuality very openly, he is not afraid of being condemned by society. Fuks´ works are characterized by a considerable degree of autobiography. Despite Georgiev´s clear rejection of faith, a believing homosexual appears more than once in his work. In this paper we try to fill a certain gap in the field of comparative research in works of art and poems by authors who in some way tended to homosexuality because within the Czech context, we have encountered this area of scholarly articles sporadically.

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