Comments on: Laws protecting LGBTI students delayed over Coalition religious freedom push

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 23:32:12 +0000

In reply to An angry gay. Given your reference to LNP I'm guessing you're a Queenslander and even Queensland LNP types include some great advocates for gay rights. Warren Entsch deserves a medal, for example. Principled to the core. The opposite of George Christiansen who's a massive dickwad. Whether you vote or otherwise give your preferences to Liberal or Labor do so on a case by case basis. Reward the good, punish the bad. Neither is perfect but equally both have great advocates and both have haters.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:27:07 +0000

Exactly right Dave!

By: An angry gay

An angry gay — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:40:38 +0000

My anger and frustration with the LNP has reached boiling point.
I will never again vote for any member of those righwing, moronic, homophobic idiots. They are hell bent on forcing everyone to bow down to their distorted view of life, and their self righteous hypocritical religious beliefs ! I discovered at age 13 there was no god and never has been. Why should anyone think it is a useful god. What has it ever done for anyone…nothing !
Our dumb government learnt nothing when it lost the Wentworth election. It continues to dither and fawn over the religious right who controls their every action and thought.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 06:31:20 +0000

This stuff continues to backfire for the Liberals, it certainly contributed to their woes in Wentworth which of course recorded one of the highest Yes votes of all electorates and it guarantees that Liberal infighting will continue to dominate the headlines in the leadup to the federal election.

ScoMo is all over the place on this issue personally. He shows every sign of being incapable of saying no to churches while pretending to love everybody, the end result is just indecision devoid of principle.

The religious freedom review was a terrible idea, but that’s what happens when the reactionaries on the far right of the Liberal Party get to have a say in anything. They don’t think through the consequences of their actions. First they demanded a plebiscite. Then the Senate predictably bumped that off and these idiots continued to refuse a conscience vote, so Turnbull and Brandis invented the statistical survey, a tool future governments may choose to use against the Liberals just for giggles (eg on negative gearing). Then they lost that and looked incredibly petulant by ignoring their own electorates’ support for marriage equality by abstaining in Parliament. Then they demanded more religious freedom but this has now resulted in a community campaign to reduce anti-gay discrimination by churches.

Don’t ban Abbott from the Mardi Gras, he’s doing a hell of a lot for gay rights by being so tactically stupid in his support for religion and that needs to be celebrated.