Dutton says an anti-marriage equality song should be performed at the NRL grand final
Image: Peter Dutton. Image: Facebook / Peter Dutton.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has spoken out about rapper Macklemore’s intention to perform his pro-LGBTI hit Same Love at the NRL grand final, saying that messages promoting the ‘no’ vote should also be allowed.
Dutton said the NRL was creating a precedent for future social messages being part of the code if it allowed Macklemore to promote same-sex marriage, according to The Australian.
“I don’t think Australian parents taking kids to the footy want political messages down their throat,” he said.
“I think sporting events and work places are totally the wrong places for these political messages. People go to the AFL and NRL finals to see a game of football: they don’t want to be sold political messages.
“The NRL might find in the next seasons people may want to promote social issues, this is an interesting precedent, what other social issues do they want to make in the years to come?
“I am into free speech – presumably two songs should be played, one for gay marriage and one against gay marriage.”
Since the announcement that Macklemore would be performing his equality hit, both Tony Abbott and Pauline Hanson have come out against it, with Hanson suggesting “Johnny Farnham” get up onstage instead.
However, due to public support for the musician and his song, Same Love is currently sitting at number one on Australian iTunes.
What would you expect from this idiot- who is partly the reason there is a postal vote? Part of the homophobic Christian right in the coalition…
I remember years ago Tina turner and Jimmy Barnes sang simply the best so maybe they should sing you’re simply the worst this year
Came across your story in my newsfeed. Failed to find a suitable Duttonesque song, so wrote one. Delete it if you don’t like it.
DUTTON RAP – GOVERNMENT APPROVED HALF TIME SONG
My XY pokes your XX
That’s the proper sort of sex.
That’s the only sort of grooves
Which the government approves
It’s time, No, no, To make a stand
And know, No, no, that for our land,
The only model that really fits
Are non identical jiggly bits
Hey ho! Away we go!
Stand up and vote No No No!
Welcome to our half time show
Vote no, revote No, vote no.
Let me hear you say “Nah”
Let me hear you say “Nah”
Only trad marriage is cool
Voting “Yes” is real fool-
-ishness. Bad. Just not dope.
(Dope is them that fills out “Nope”)
Your life and love
Is not our biz?
The “No” we’ll tick,
Says it so is!
SSM? We don’t think so!
Stand up and vote No No No!
Welcome to our half time show
Vote no, revote No, vote no.
Yes votes to the bin must go…
– Suck on this, you flake of snow …
Let me hear you say “Nah”
Let me hear you say “Nah”
Let me hear you say “Nah”
Etc.
Peter Dutton is obviously a genius, but he’s thinking too narrowly. Why limit it to only playing a song in rebuttle of Same Love? We need to hear rebuttles of EVERY song at the NRL grand final. They need to play the losing team’s song at the end of the game as well as the winning team’s song. They need to play A.B. Original’s Australia Day right after they play Advance Australia Fair, and perhaps also the North Korean national anthem to make sure the balance is appropriate.
And next election, I look forward to Peter Dutton endorsing the Labor Party just as much as the Liberal Party because what always matters is balance. (Actually, you can scrap that, Peter Dutton is doing plenty to help out the ALP every time he opens his mouth.)