WATCH: Phelps and Wallace face-off

WATCH: Phelps and Wallace face-off

There has been a massive show of support for Channel 7’s breakfast program Sunrise this morning, as celebrities and marriage equality supporters came out in Melbourne and Sydney for the “I Do” special.

The special event collaboration with Marie Claire magazine for its campaign for equality was not without controversy, however.

Coming under pressure from the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) in the days leading up to the special coverage, Sunrise producers held a debate between gay marriage advocate Dr Kerryn Phelps and the ACL’s Jim Wallace.

The debate was quickly marred by comments from Wallace who slammed the show for covering the event and compared marriage equality campaigners to Nazis.

“This whole campaign would do great credit to Joseph Goebbels,” he said.

Watch the full exchange below:

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7 responses to “WATCH: Phelps and Wallace face-off”

  1. Jim Wallace is flogging a dead horse with his arguments. Please, a Nazi comparison? Low blow and sensationalist to the extreme. I was married to a guy for 14 years, divorced when our 2 sons were 3 and 4. I have raised my sons on my own because their Father could not get past his ego at my being GAY. Did he put his sons first like a good father should? NO. Who showed my sons how to shave? I did. Who talked to them about puberty and mens issues? I did. Who worked on cars with my sons? I did. I have a same sex partner of 10 years now and my sons are 19 and 20 years of age. Both are hard working, caring and beautifully adjusted you men: one gay and one straight. Don’t for one second tell me that my sons are worse off for being in a single parent OR a same sex relationship. they are doing just fine thank you very much Mr Wallace!

  2. When people bring up motherhood and fatherhood and raising children in same-sex marriages, do they even consider single parents? Child with only one mother or only one father is perfectly fine. They don’t ‘need’ a mother and a father figure. Two mothers or two fathers works just as well as one mother and one father. It’s a lot better than only having one parent. The guy said that a woman cannot be a father to her child, well I think that every single mother in the world should get together and kick him for that.

  3. Kerryn needs to be careful on the Polygamy versus Gay Rights debate – South Africa is (the only?!) country where both are supported.

  4. Nazism, polygamy and procreation? If that is the best that Wallace and his cronies at the ACL can come up with, then this battle is as good as won! Thankyou GetUp and Sunrise. I DO!!!!!!

  5. Jim Wallace, you deserve the greatest sadness in your life you evil conservative lunatic, the only relation this campaign has to the the Nazis is the belief that you should be sent to a concentration camp and made to pay for the suffering of every person in every minority that has ever existed.

  6. According to Godwin’s Law, any debate is automatically forfeited if someone resorts to Nazi/Hitler comparisons. Well done, Jim.

  7. The ACL Compared the marriage quality campaigners to Nazis, I feel that it is the oppersite. I feel if the ACL had there way they would be making homosexuals wear the pink triangles on their clothing once again and because we would stand up to that. Then they would put homosexuals into camps or institutions away from society.