Bob Katter says Australia should focus on killer crocodiles instead of SSM
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Conservative MP Bob Katter has told Australians to focus less on marriage equality and more on catching killer crocodiles, in a bizarre television interview.
Last week the majority of Australia said Yes to marriage equality via a national postal survey.
After roughly 16 million ballots were sent out to eligible Australians around the country, 61 per cent voted in favour of same sex marriage, and 38 per cent voted against.
Senator Dean Smith also introduced his marriage bill, which was built upon a cross-party Senate inquiry earlier this year.
Speaking after the legislation was introduced, Katter said he had better ways to spend his time.
“I mean, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities,” he said.
“Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I’m concerned.
“But I ain’t spending any time on it, because in the mean time, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland.”
A few months ago Katter made headlines when he accused the LGBTI community of stealing the word “gay”, and demanded they give it back.
In case you missed it, here's Bob Katter's alternative view on the #samesexmarriage debate. Thanks for watching. #Insiders #auspol pic.twitter.com/iObsR1tDs1
— Insiders ABC (@InsidersABC) November 18, 2017
As always, isn’t he ‘special’*? (*inverted commas intentional) ????
Does anyone, anywhere actually care what Bob Katter has to say?
Here’s a little something to ponder and probably what we should have done during the run-up to the Survey!
The Founder of the Christian Religion: Jesus taught, or so the churches and other would have us believe, that we should all be Compassionate, Generous, Loving – three things which those within the Australian Christian Lobby and their followers do not practice. Nor do people like Tony Abbott, Kevin Andrews, (understandably) Erich Abezt and other who were so loud in their promotion of the “It’s OK to say NO” campaign. None have the right to call themselves “Christians” for to a many/woman they and their followers refuse to obey Christ’s teachings.
“It’s OK to say NO – BUT it’s Better to Say YES”
It’s OK to say NO – BUT it is MORE Loving to say YES”
It’s OK to say NO – BUT it is MORE Generous to say YES”
“It’s OK to say NO – BUT it’s MORE Compassionate to say YES”
We could have taken 10s of 1000s of their “It’s OK to say NO” stickers and simply attached the rest.
That is what Christ – the most misrepresented person to have ever lived – would have taught them.
killer crocs in N Queensland? Perhaps he could wade thru a few mud ponds up there to find them..I hope he does’nt run into any that voted FOR marriage equality
Our Esteemed White Man Leader might use his noggin a little more clearly if he can: I point out to you Sar… regarding use of the word “gay” in the world, aside from referring to carefree, is now usually referring to a bum chum… as per Standard Oxford Dictionary.
“It is now the standard accepted term throughout the English-speaking world. As a result, the centuries-old other senses of gay meaning either ‘carefree’ or ‘bright and showy’ have more or less dropped out of natural use.”
Get with it Sar Katter or get out of it. We need progressive, open minded politicians to lead us to the new world so we can all have a gay AND carefree time in our lives.
Hey Bob Katter you dill, do you know where they’ve managed to entirely shut down the conversation about same sex marriage? Just made it go away completely? Here’s a list. New Zealand, the UK, Sweden, Holland, Spain, France, Germany, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, it just goes on and on.
If only you could work out how they did it.
What’s more they’ve also largely solved croc attacks, but admittedly they were coming off a low bar.