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For release: 18th February 2011
A South Australian Labor MP should be disendorsed by the Party for his intolerant remarks about people who support natural marriage.
Ian Hunter reportedly claimed that a failure to support the gay lobby’s ambit claim to redefine marriage was akin to supporting the racist White Australia policy.
“This is just the latest example of intolerance from the gay marriage lobby,” Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Jim Wallace said today.
“At a time when the Federal Government is reaffirming the virtues of multiculturalism, Mr Hunter labels as racists those who for religious and cultural reasons affirm marriage as between a man and a woman.
“Where is the evidence of tolerance and understanding of diversity which is so essential to multiculturalism?
“This attempt to bully natural marriage proponents out of the debate on gay marriage should not be tolerated by the Labor Party, which claims to support the religious and cultural values of all Australians.”
Mr Wallace said Mr Hunter’s attempt to silence debate follows the shutting down of debate on gay marriage at the Internet journal On Line Opinion after gay activists ‘attacked’ and ‘intimidated’ the owner, Graham Young, forcing the withdrawal of advertising from IBM and ANZ Bank after the site published just one pro-marriage article.
“The South Australian Premier Mike Rann must act to distance his Government from these statements,” Mr Wallace said.
“It is appropriate to have a debate on gay marriage but it cannot be conducted in the atmosphere of intolerant rhetoric where emotive labels are too often used to suppress debate and intimidate people into silence,” Mr Wallace said.
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Mr Hunter is obviously displaying his Ignorance of Marriage across the many Nationalities of the world. The Whole Pro-Gay Lobby ignore the Muslim cultural understanding of Marriage where Gay Marriage is a major offense against Allah. It is not just the Christians and the Jewish peoples of this world that embrace Marriage, even the Soviet Communists saw the folly and did not endorse such selfish and self-interested propositions that the Gay community somehow has a right to claim Marriage within any acts they perform.
I wonder whether Mr. Ian Hunter , South Australian Labor MP , understand and analysed the “Racist White Australia policy”.
It is a disgrace that the South Australian Labor MP is comparing ‘Indigenous Peoples’ suffering to gay marriage lobby’s un-natural thinking stunt.
Mr Hunter has confused behaviour and ethicity. They are two different things. To discriminate on ethnicity is not acceptable to Australians although many races actually do this. However all discriminate on behaviousal grounds whether we agree with them or not,
sincerely
K Fishley
Mr. Hunter is discriminating on an institution that works, even though the breakdown is there between male and female, it is proven to be the best way for a child to be brought up. It is not acceptable for minorities to trash what most Australians know is right.