The Australian: A QUEENSLAND father of five has taken action in the Anti-Discrimination Commission after his four-year-old daughter was asked to help make a replica of Noah’s Ark at the local state school.
Ron Williams, who has five children under the age of 10, is opposed to religious instruction in state schools.
In taking action against Kathleen’s teacher, Trina Savio, and the school’s principal, Greg Brand, Mr Williams said he was standing up for a “significant, disgruntled underbelly of parents” who do not want Christian stories taught at state schools.
He said Australians lived in a society with a separation of church and state and he was therefore protecting Kathleen’s fundamental human right: freedom from religion. Mr Williams’s complaint said Christian groups had been emboldened in their efforts to “spread the word” in state schools by a Howard government program, launched in October last year, to fund chaplains in state schools.
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