Anthony Mundine says his comments about executing gays were “twisted”

Anthony Mundine says his comments about executing gays were “twisted”

Boxer Anthony Mundine has backtracked from his comments about capital punishment for gay people, claiming he was talking about paedophiles.

Mundine said his words had been twisted by the media, Pink News has reported.

“If we were to live in a society, just like Aboriginal culture, where homosexuality is forbidden and you do it and the consequences are capital punishment or death, you think you are going to do it?” Mundine had said.

“Or think twice about doing it?

“That’s the only way to deter the problem.”

He went on to claim that gay rights were leading to normalisation of paedophilia.

“Hang them suckers,” he said.

“Because they are pushing these gay rights so much in the Western world, the paedophiles out there want their rights.

“Now they are going to claim to have rights. They want their rights just like the gay people want their rights.

“They aren’t going to be happy until they have primary school kids being gay.”

Mundine’s comments were met with outrage.

Indigenous LGBTI advocate and Black Rainbow founder Dameyon Bonson handed back his Dr Yunupingu award for human rights, distancing himself from the National Indigenous Human Rights Awards, which also include an Anthony Mundine award for courage.

Mundine this week said his comments had been misrepresented.

“I’ve got nothing against the gays, I’ve got nothing against them,” he said.

“[The media] turned it around… I was talking about the paedophiles.”

Mundine has previously come under fire for homophobic comments after the ABC series Redfern Now featured a gay character, in what he branded “promoting homosexuality” in a Facebook post.

“That ain’t in our [Aboriginal] culture and our ancestors would have their head for it!” he wrote.

“Like my dad told me, God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.”

Blackfella Films, which produced the series, criticised Mundine’s comments at the time as “inappropriate” and “insulting”.

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2 responses to “Anthony Mundine says his comments about executing gays were “twisted””

  1. No you were not just talking about paedophiles, Anthony Mundine. You specifically stated that All Homosexuals should be killed and you said it more than once.
    You are just displaying your Total Ignorance.
    The vast majority of Paedophiles have long-since been shown to be Heterosexual Men and Women.
    Heterosexuals who have been Priests or allegedly devout members of Religious businesses such as the Roman Catholics, the Anglicans, Salvation Army
    Teachers from Christian, Islamic and Jewish Schools – heterosexuals to a man/woman have been involved.
    You did not call for any of them to be killed, did you?
    Now that you have been called out on your Messages of Hatred, you are trying to back down.
    Before you open your trap again, Anthony, get your Facts Right and make sure that what you are saying is the Truth.

  2. Dear Anthony Mundine,
    Before you state something in the future, please read up on non-biased scholastic essays and other researched material. Let us finally have a chance to be proud of you.
    If you do searches online (try ‘Google Scholar’ for starters, and please don’t rely on places like ‘Wikipedia’, ‘Twitter’ or even ‘YouTube’ for honest non-biased sources of research), or even in university libraries, then you should find many *balanced* objective (*not* subjective) essays that teach and inform about those from the Rainbow Community; and that same-sex couplings were seen as a normal and celebrated part of cultures such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, the Roman Empire, and various Indigenous cultures *long* before colonisation, invasions from missionaries and other self-righteous man-made religions intruded into their lives.