This is actually one area where the U.S. is more liberal than most of the world with our "
Americans with Disablilties Act." It's actually the greatest achievement of GHWBush's presidency, even though it had to be piggybacked on vital legislation to pass veto.
It's not perfect though and has been abused by some unscrupulous lawyers. It also wouldn't apply in this case because the church is private property. I can understand why some European countries haven't adopted similiar measures because of their ancient cities, but surely Australia could do something like this.