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Australia: The Australian Prime Minister has never dealt well with questions from non-tame sources, as was recently proven at a Dublin University when one student challenged John Howard to defend his efforts to entrench homophobia in Australia.
The Prime Minister John Howard has described people campaigning for gay marriage as fundamentalists.
Mr Howard says it is not discrimination to deny gay men and lesbians equal marriage status with heterosexual couples...
...Mr Howard replied that his Government had remedied much of the financial discrimination, but said most Australians do not want gay couples to have equivalent status.
According to John Howard it's all fine and dandy for him to discriminate against people based on their sexuality due to his fantasy that everyone else agrees with him. That sounds suspiciously like the turn of phrase all loony fundies use to justify their small-minded prejudices.
Australians don't support gay marriage: Howard—ABC News Online, 23rd March 2006 (via redwolf.newsvine.com).
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1: Posted by: Red Wolf | May 23, 2006 5:35 AM
In today's subscriber only news, Crikey asked why, if Howard believes that Australians don't support gay marriage, he doesn't mention it when he's at home?
2: Posted by: Feòrag | May 23, 2006 8:53 AM
A comment on the LiveJournal feed of this article notes that it was University College Dublin, and that the students gave him a really hard time.
3: Posted by: Red Wolf | May 23, 2006 10:00 AM
Joy! I hear he's copping a bit of stick from some Irish MPs over being a racist, a warmonger and a thief.
There's a little bit more on the backlash from Howard's University College faux pas via queerplanet.
4: Posted by: aeduna | May 25, 2006 1:25 AM
Goddamn non-core lying piece of crap waste of oxygen. I really wish there had been an election coming up when he last opened his lying mouth and said "marriage is just about children"...
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