Tony Abbott wants a straight couple to raise his sister’s kids

Tony Abbott wants a straight couple to raise his sister’s kids

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott is continuing his hard line against marriage equality, this time bringing his sister Christine Forster’s family into his rhetoric.

After Forster earlier this week said the two have ‘agreed to disagree’ on marriage equality, Abbott said in a radio interview that he wants all children to have a mother and father, Pink News has reported.

“My position on this is not driven by religion, it’s driven by the fact that marriage is what produces families, families are what produces communities and societies and nations,” Abbott told 2GB.

“I want to strengthen the family, I want to support the traditional families because it’s better for kids, if possible, to have a mother and a father.

“As everyone knows, my distinguished and much-loved sister Chris is on the other side of this argument. Chris has been a very good mother with her partner Virginia, they do a good job, but nevertheless I’m old fashioned enough to think kids do best with a mother and a father.”

Asked if his relationship with his sister had broken down, Abbott said, “Chris has made it very clear that as a family we can all get on even though we don’t always agree on everything.”

He declined to publicly debate his sister on the issue of marriage equality.

“There’s nothing exhibitionistic about the Abbott family,” he said.

“We are not show-offs, we do not parade ourselves or make a public spectacle of ourselves.”

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6 responses to “Tony Abbott wants a straight couple to raise his sister’s kids”

  1. What a joke how many divorced parents are there in our country in theory Abbott’s comments mean that children should be taken away and given to a married couple so will he bring a law in for this there is only a few things children need is love care understand and it doesn’t matter if the child has one parent or same sex or married . Also in theory if your partner in a married couple dies does that mean we should take the children away from the single parent and give to a married couple. Abbott is a Rhodes scholar and with this education I’d expected more from him thank God that He is not our PM , I would hate him to be in my representative from my area . We also know who is bank rolling Abbott which is the Catholic church and we all know there history I wonder if Abbott agrees with that history . Abbott is a joke his views belong in the 1950s were women have no vote no rights and there are only mucho blokes no gay people and a Sunday roast . God help Australian with people like this running our country . I’d hate to have him as part of my family I feel sorry for his sister having such a biggot as a brother .

  2. Like a fire that requires oxygen, if we stop giving press coverage to this oxygen thief, will Tony Abbott just slowly extinguish himself? One can only hope…

  3. What does it say about this bigot that he’d toss his own sister under the bus….He can’t even work up loyalty–> to his OWN FAMILY!

    What a horrible, awful creep, is right. Just a nasty man, all around.

    Go back to the tar pit, Abbott– & take the rest of the LNP dinosaurs with you. The sooner, the better. If you all could stop dragging forward-thinkers by the ankles, we might actually make real progress.

  4. Well in this version of Australia where thanks to Tony Abbott everyone’s opinion about marriage matters, I’m sick of reading Tony’s comments and having to fight the urge to vomit. Imagine having to live with that creep full time. And even sleeping with him! And it’s gotten me thinking, if (as Tony insists) everyone’s opinion about what’s a good and bad marriage matters, I should do the decent thing and launch a campaign to amend the marriage laws to invalidate Tony Abbott’s marriage. I’m calling on everyone who thinks Tony is a creep to get on board! VOTE YES TO SAVE MARGI ABBOTT!!!!