WATCH: New Zealand MP’s hilarious speech
New Zealand Parliament’s final passing of a same-sex marriage bill yesterday prompted a hilarious and heartfelt speech from National MP Maurice Williamson.
Speaking in favour of the bill, Williamson recounted outlandish claims made to his office about marriage equality to the delight of fellow parliamentarians and gallery spectators.
“I’ve had a reverend in my local electorate say ‘the gay onslaught’ will start the day after this bill is passed. We’re really struggling to know what the ‘gay onslaught’ will look like – we don’t know if it will come down the Pakuranga Highway as a series of troops, or whether it will be a gas that flows over the electorate and blocks us all in,” Williamson said.
“I also had a Catholic priest tell me that I was supporting an unnatural act – I found that quite interesting coming from someone who’s taken an oath of celibacy for their whole life.”
He also responded to a claim that support for gay marriage was causing New Zealand’s current drought by noting that it was “pouring with rain” in his electorate of Pakuranga, causing an “enormous big gay rainbow”.
Williamson ended with a quote from the Book of Deutoronomy for anyone who may be worried at the bill’s passing – “be ye not afraid”.
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