PM dodges protesters at Dunstan address
Ms Gillard’s appearance in Adelaide on Wednesday was marked by a marriage equality protest organised by Equal Love Adelaide.
About 50 people showed up to protest the PM’s stance and gathered outside Adelaide’s Bonython Hall at Adelaide University holding placards and chanting slogans in support of gay marriage.
However Gillard was a no show, dodging the protesters via a rear door.
Gillard was at the University to present the Dunstan Keynote Address- named in honour of South Australian premier Don Dunstan.
The Dunstan State Government became the first to decriminalise homosexuality in 1976 and Dunstan had a 13 year same-sex relationship with restauranteur Stephen Cheng, which only ended with his death in 1999.
A spokesman for Resistance told media that it was hypocritical for Gillard to memorialise a premier who had moved forward on gay rights when she refused to do the same on same-sex marriage.
Meanwhile Teresa Gambaro has honoured a pledge made last year and become the next Liberal member of the Federal Parliament to seek her constituents views on same-sex marriage.
Gambaro has set up a survey on her website so that constituents in her electorate of Brisbane can make their views known.
For Brisbane residents the survey can be found here- www.teresagambaro.com/out-about-in-brisbane/surveys-and-petitions/marriage-act-survey/
Julia, for your information the same part of the Bible – Leviticus – that supports anti-gay “culture” ALSO say that adulterers – that is, those who live in sin as she and her partner do – should be stoned to death.
So much for “remembering the lessons of the Bible” …
Would she dare say that to Muslims “remember the lessons of the Bible.
No wonder women were not allowed to speak in church.
“PM Julia Gillard: Gay marriage against my upbringing”
http://dalby.tk/8
Re DavidW’s comment: “Even though she is an athiest… she said when it comes to gays, we all need to remember the “lessons” of the bible.”
I just cannot believe what Gillard said at 23:00 on this video:
http://video.news.com.au/1850179188/Australian-Agenda-PM-Julia-Gillard?area=videoindex2
David W
That is terrible if the Prime Minister Julia Gillard is daring to Bible bash us in an excuse to justify her own extraordinary human rights abuses of people in our community. We have trouble accessing nursing homes, we are not included in the Federal Equal Opportunity Act, and government funded services run by religious groups can carry out acts of hate, and sack us even though our taxes pay these bastards. All this let along our right to get married being denied.
We have a fundamental right to be free of other people’s religious beliefs. Gillard has committed a grave human rights abuse by inciting religious hatred onto good and decent Australians in the GLBTI community.
The power of the Prime Ministers words should not be taken lightly. For what other lessons in the bible are there about homosexuality depends on the person reading it. Some believe we should be killed, some believe we should have Same-Sex Marriage, some believe we should be locked-up.
I believe in a fair go, and believe Gillard has no place in the Australian Government if her current policies are the best she can do. Gillard’s legacy will be the death of Labor as a party that can never govern without the Greens support. Labor simply has no heart without the Greens.
Julia then commented yesterday on Sky News that she has a strong personal opinion that gays are second class citizens as the bible tells us so. Even though she is an athiest… she said when it comes to gays, we all need to remember the “lessons” of the bible.
Well, the lessons of the bible not only justify her rejecting equal civil marriage (as country after country gets except us), but also justifys us being put to death for being gay????
On ya Julia- thanks for reminding every gay person and all their family members & friends to only vote Greens until the persecution stops. Even if we don’t agree or like the Greens other policies, we can no longer vote for Labor & Liberal now they are direct puppets of the Australian Christian Extremist Lobby.
Where is the report on the anti carbon tax protest, that was in the same locality. I know it was small, almost minute, but that is no reason for not making a report.