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Churches unite to propose Religious Freedom Act
Major submission to Ruddock panel calls for a new legal “right”
A wide range of Evangelical and Pentecostal Christian churches have spoken with one voice to the Ruddock panel on religious freedom, whose call for submissions closed today.
They have received 13,500 submissions: “I think it is safe to say that people are concerned about religious freedom,” says Michael Kellahan, executive director of Freedom for Faith (FFF), a Christian legal think tank.
The federal government has set up an expert panel, led by Phillip Ruddock (formerly called the ‘Father of the…