So "Key faith leaders are backing a compromise on religious freedom ..." are they? Why do journalists always cite "key faith leaders" when most Australians are not religious, don't care about religion or are actively pissed off with religious leaders and religious institutions?
As Jack Waterford writes in Pearls and Irritations (see below), "Fewer Australians were declaring themselves as followers of any religion, and even fewer were active members. There was a time once when leaders of significant religions or sects spoke in public, they were read and heard, but increasingly they were and are being ignored.
The problem was not so much active hostility to religion, or religious groups, but indifference, and, sometimes, resentment at privileges some religions continued to have."
