De Bruyn scaremongering: Rainbow Labor

De Bruyn scaremongering: Rainbow Labor

The Australian Rainbow Labor Network has accused conservative union official Joe de Bruyn of “scaremongering” and says it will “unanimously reject” a Labor conscience vote on same-sex marriage at the party’s upcoming National Conference.

Speaking at the Rainbow Labor ball in Melbourne on Friday, November 11, Rainbow Labor co-convenor Neil Pharaoh said the group wants the party to change its platform for marriage equality.

“Rainbow Labor has unanimously resolved to call on National Conference to pass a positive policy platform that makes marriage equality the official, supported position of our party,” Pharaoh said.

“The suggestion that we have an untouched or neutral policy platform is simply unacceptable.”

Pharaoh also rejected renewed calls by de Bruyn that a Labor change in favour of same-sex marriage would be “electoral suicide”.

“I say to Joe de Bruyn that we will not be shaken by your misinformation and outdated scaremongering and untruths about electoral backlash over marriage equality … because we know that marriage equality is not only supported by the vast majority of our party, but supported by the vast majority of Australians too.”

Last week federal Mental Health and Ageing Minister Mark Butler spoke out in favour of same-sex marriage and said he opposes a conscience vote on the issue.


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One response to “De Bruyn scaremongering: Rainbow Labor”

  1. In the darkness of the Labor Machine World, everybody ultimately does not matter, just the machine. This is demonstrated by the likes of far Right Catholics such as Joe de Bruyn , having a greater say then the 5000 people of good faith, who are fed-up and leave Labor every year.

    Labor has the numbers, and at any time could include us in the Federal Equal Opportunity Act, they could give us the same legal protections others have, but refuse to. Instead we are left with insults fromm people like Gillard, a machine, telling us to look up lessons in the Bible when we demand equality before the law. In fact the last two Labor Prime Ministers cared more about the Labor Machine World, than they did traditional Labor supporters.

    While Labor acts like robots, I will continue voting Green. A party that does not seek to make the birth of GLBTI people a punishment.