Chosen CEO of Australian Football Club Resigns Following Pressures on Religious Views

Chosen CEO of Australian Football Club Resigns Following Pressures on Religious Views
National Australia Bank CEO Andrew Thorburn speaks during a media briefing for the bank's full year results in Sydney on October 28, 2015. Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP
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The chosen chief executive officer of Australian rules football club Essendon, Andrew Thorburn, has resigned after only one day in the job on the basis of his religious belief. 
Thorburn is chairman of City on a Hill church which said on its website that lust, practicing homosexuality and sex outside of marriage are sins according to the bible’s teachings. 
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