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Allegedly under pressure from the Catholic Church,\u00a0Australia’s largest telecommunications provider will not be participating in the public campaign in support of same-sex marriage, a new report suggests.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0The Australian<\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0Archdiocese of Sydney business manager Michael Digges approached a number of companies who had given permission for their logo to be used in a newspaper advertisement in support of marriage equality in May 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He suggested the church could withdraw business from participating companies, including Telstra, which reportedly serves Catholic schools around Australia.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Allegedly under pressure from the Catholic Church,\u00a0Australia’s largest telecommunications provider will not be participating in the public campaign in support of same-sex marriage, a new report suggests. According to\u00a0The Australian,\u00a0Archdiocese of Sydney business manager Michael Digges approached a number of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,768,1794,1793,1135],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-catholic-church","tag-marriage-equality","tag-telstra"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}