{"id":7399,"date":"2017-08-24T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:02:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T01:02:29","slug":"the-great-divide-where-religious-beliefs-and-the-law-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7399","title":{"rendered":"The great divide where religious beliefs and the law meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Faith is accommodated In Australia, but there is piecemeal protection for religious freedom.<\/h2>\n<p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-great-divide-where-religious-beliefs-and-the-law-meet-81180\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Michael Quinlan<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Michael_Quinlan\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia is a multi-faith society. The <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/census-2016-shows-australias-changing-religious-profile-with-more-nones-than-catholics-79837\"> 2016 Census<\/a> shows that, while the mix of beliefs has changed over the years, Australia remains a pretty religious place.<\/p>\n<p>In the last census, nearly 70% of Australians self-identified as religious. The number of Australians who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/Lookup\/by%20Subject\/2071.0~2016~Main%20Features~Religion%20Data%20Summary~25\"> self-identified as Christian<\/a> in the census has fallen from 88.2% in 1966 to 52.1% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Australians identifying as being of another religion has grown from 0.8% to 8.2%, with Islam (2.6%), Buddhism (2.4%) and Hinduism (1.9%) being the largest non-Christian faiths.<\/p>\n<p>The number who self-identified in the category of &#8220;no religion&#8221; has grown from 0.8% to 30.1%. This category includes having secular beliefs, other spiritual beliefs or having no religion. This makes it hard to be sure what these Australians believe. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/law\/commentary\/legal076.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith is accommodated In Australia, but there is piecemeal protection for religious freedom. The Conversation Michael Quinlan* Australia is a multi-faith society. The 2016 Census shows that, while the mix of beliefs has changed over the years, Australia remains a pretty religious place. In the last census, nearly 70% of Australians self-identified as religious. 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