the GLORIA (Gay and Lesbian Outrageous, Ridiculous and Ignorant Awards) awards have been finalised. miranda devine, the same woman who thinks kids should not recieve anti-homophobia education, won the golden gloria and media category for this statement:
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“As a Catholic, I believe the push for same-sex marriage is not about enhancing the lives of gay couples.
“It is simply a political tool to undermine the last bastion of bourgeois morality – the traditional nuclear family,” Devine wrote.
“You only had to see the burning streets of London last week to see the manifestation of a fatherless society".
hahahaha bourgeois morality heheeh. marriage equality and the london riots: how did we not see the link?
personally i think the worst international comment should have gone to the preacher who said that if a boys wrist should go limp it should be slapped, among other things, violent things, he said in his very long anti-gay rant. but it went to this guy :
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Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina who told his congregation that they should build a large fence,150 or 100 miles long, put all the gays and lesbians inside it: "And have that fence electrified 'til they can't get out. Feed 'em. And you know what, in a few years, they'll die out. Do you know why? They can't reproduce."
i think he is forgetting we come from straight people a lot of the time. and bisexuals/pansexuals- we exist.
politics/law category also cracked me up:
Philip Pocock, ACT Election Candidate:
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“I believe sodomy of man or woman should be regarded as a criminal offence and while people do not have the right to go ‘poofter bashing’, to use colloquial language, they should have the right to discriminate in terms of employment, accommodation etc as they do in dealing with drug addicts etc".