Margaret Court may end her 50-year relationship with Liberals over SSM

Margaret Court may end her 50-year relationship with Liberals over SSM

Former tennis legend and vocal anti-LGBTI pastor Margaret Court has threatened to end her 50-year association with the Liberal Party.

Court believes the major parties are complicit in Australia’s moral decline, according to The West Australian.

“We look at what’s there now and they are not listening to the conservatives or what a lot of people would like,” she said.

“They are not allowing you to speak. I don’t think I want to be with either party.”

She urged politicians to follow their conscience rather than the marriage survey result and oppose the marriage reform bill in parliament.

Court said she thought the government and media had not properly examined the effects of marriage equality on education and society in other countries.

The Victory Life Church pastor has argued that the Bible defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.

She famously announced she would boycott Qantas over the airline’s support for marriage equality.

Court drew more attention earlier this year after a bizarre rant on a Christian radio program in which she compared LGBTI people to Hitler and communists.

On another occasion she spoke about her fears that marriage equality would end Christmas.

Her repeated homophobic and transphobic comments have been met with wide criticism and calls for Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena to be renamed.

Western Australia Liberal Party president Norman Moore said he hoped Court would reconsider her threat to cut ties with the party.

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14 responses to “Margaret Court may end her 50-year relationship with Liberals over SSM”

  1. Ms Court the Liberal party will collapse if you resign your membership.

    Collapse laughing. Get over yourself, you were a true legend on the court, no one denies that, but 61% of voting Australians voted in favour of SSM it’s called democracy.

  2. The real Liberals within the Liberal Party – that excludes such people as Abbott, Andrews, Erich Abetz, Dutton and a few other of the Ultra-Right-Wing neo-Fascists within the Coalition will Welocme Maggie’s departure from the Liberal Party. Maybe she should, and would be welcomed by, the neo-Fascist ill-named “Australian Conservatives led by El Duce Cory Bernardi or Pauline Hanson and her not-so-One Party of rednecks, bigots, homophobes and racists.
    The Liberal party can do without any of these people. In fact it will be simply returning to it’s original roots as laid down by Middle-of-the-Path, centrist Bob Menzies. As I have said before, the reason Menzies was able to remain in Power for so long was that the Most Important People in Australia: The Voters – have always rejected Extremism – be it from the Left or the Right.
    It was not until Whitlam dragged the ALP from the extreme left to the Centre (currently being taken hard left by Shorten) that the ALP actually got back into Government.

  3. So what if she does disassociate from liberals, big deal, whether there is anything after she dies who knows…I dont believe in hell and a devil but maybe she will reincarnate as a cockroach…or an ant…

  4. Margret, luvvie, you may want to google the meaning of ‘Secular Democratic Society’. Or maybe they don’t have that kinda thing on your planet.

  5. The headline should read

    “Margaret Court, whose views are published in all forms of media, complains about being silenced.”

  6. Court seems out of her depth when understanding politics/democracy and society generally. Perhaps some people are good at sport or religion but have no aptitude when it comes to understanding their insignificance in a community as a whole. Poor woman , she looks dreadful!.

  7. “We look at what’s there now and they are not listening to the conservatives or what a lot of people would like,” she said.
    Margaret, a lot of people, the majority, in fact, support SSM, it’s called Democracy!

  8. She says the bible states marriage is between man and woman. The old testament also says those working on sabbath should be stoned though she isn’t advocating for that. Why not, because it is ludicrous. Much the same as most of her arguements. Amyway this debate is about a LAW not the bible. 2 very separate things!

    • Technically a non-binding statistical survey isn’t democracy, the High Court agrees, your question should be “what part of Grade 2 maths does she not understand?”

      I’m a maths nerd, so please don’t take my comment as anything other than pure maths nerd technicality with the rare opportunity to mention the High Court in that context.

  9. Why would the Liberals want to hang on to Margaret Court? She is clearly mad. Her predictions about the end of life as we know it in the event of a Yes vote right down to the end of Christmas are surely not doing the Libs any favours.

    She’s clearly an attention-seeking loose cannon unsuited to mainstream politics. Are the WA Libs in the same category? If not, be glad she’s moved on.