NSW AG Michael Daley says religious leaders who give sermons about homosexuality being "a sin" are protected under proposed NSW gay conversion therapy laws- Daley does not trust religious leaders , so exemption may well be illusory

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 



           Daley made racist comments when in opposition, but did not think he had said anything wrong

The ABC has reported: 

A bill to ban gay conversion therapy will be introduced to NSW parliament, with allowances made for parents and religious sermons.

The Minns government said the bill would "save lives" and outlaw conversion practices such as religious "straight camps" or hypnotherapy sessions designed to change a person's sexual orientation or identity.

Attorney-General Michael Daley said religious leaders who gave sermons about homosexuality being "a sin" were protected under the laws.


However, Daley does not trust ministers of religion, so it is hard to see how he will ultimatley find a means of prosecuting religious leaders for  sermons about homosexuality. To begin with, Daley has not defined "sermon".


To Be Read With 



NSW AG Michael Daley "formed a really great affinity with the beauty of the working class" in Catholic Maroubra but will not trust their priests to witness their statutory declarations

July 14, 2023

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


In 2019 The Guardian ran a story about  the aspiring NSW  Labor leader and premier for NSW, Michael Daley which said: 

(Maroubra)  still has a larger than average Catholic population, evidenced by churches and Catholic schools dotted around the suburb, including Marcellin College Randwick, where Daley went to high school.

“ I worked right through this estate. My paper run should have taken me two hours, it often took five or six. I would stop off and help the old ladies, walk their dogs, they would give me breakfast and I formed a really great affinity with what I would unashamedly call the beauty of the working class,” he says.

Now, as Attorney General NSW Daley will not even trust their priests to witness ordinary statutory declarations that they may have to attest from time to time. 


TO BE READ WITH 

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

           Daley made racist comments when in opposition, but did not think he had said anything wrong



The new Attorney General NSW Michael Daly was sent the post below.In a written response his Department of Communities and Justice has confirmed that the NSW Oaths Act does in fact exclude ministers of religion, and that he will not bring the NSW Oaths Act into conformity with the Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Cth.



Meanwhile Daley has said that he will work with stakeholders to end discrimination on the basis of religion in NSW.

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