Unions desert Katter over anti-gay policies
The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) has withdrawn its support for Bob Katter’s Australian Party due to its recent homophobic television advertisements and threats to repeal the current civil unions legislation.
QCU president John Battams said individual KAP candidates were yesterday given an opportunity to reject the party’s policy to repeal same-sex unions.
“Already two candidates have indicated their support for the current civil unions legislation and we would call on other Katter party candidates to do the same,” he said.
“The QCU supports legislative reforms that enable fair access and rights to the legal and social recognition established by civil unions. The Civil Partnerships Act 2011 is a good example of action taken by governments that believe in equality.”
Battams made the announcement at a civil unions celebration breakfast in Mt Coot-tha, where a same-sex couple highlighted how repealing civil unions legislation would also endanger their rights at work.
Shannon Michaels said the current civil unions laws gave her partner financial security if Michaels was hurt or killed at work.
“If these laws are repealed then any certainty my partner had of receiving my super or compensation payments disappears. It’s unfair and an attack on our civil and workplace rights,” she said.
Battams said the party’s television advertisements had caused considerable distress in the union movement, which had prompted the QCU’s change in position.
“The QCU and its affiliated unions, representing more than 350,000 Queensland workers and their families, totally rejects the misleading and homophobic depiction of same-sex couples in these advertisements.”
Ben, thanks for all the biblical quotes and yes, Chelsea, I hope you aren’t eating any shellfish, shock horror but then again all of those ‘fundies’ can’t help themselves, enjoying the good life can they? Dollars for Jesus is such a wonderful business ploy! All those fundie Pastors driving around in Mercedes doing Jesus’s work! lol The happy clappies are so full of hypocrisy and double standards. That is why I love Christians so much, hehe,they set themselves up for complete failure and I love watching their personal downfalls, always never-ending!
Chelsea, I hope you enthusiastically also embrace biblical injunctions on:
Tattoos:
Leviticus 19:28 Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos.
Killing of adulterers:
Leviticus 20: 10 “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Burning of off-spring:
Leviticus 21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
And then there is the issue of beard-trimming…
Leviticus 19: 27 “‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
Errr, Chelsea… God loved David, who loved jonathon – and Saul was killed by David, who then became King. Now, do I reply that, David sets an example that those who reject their gay children should be killed? No, because, you, know, the whole point Jesus was trying to make was to stop making nonsense of the word of god and start getting the point of it – remember ? All that stuff healing people on the Sabbath, he who throws the first stone etc. You should ask Jesus to send you the holy spirit so your eyes, ears, mind and heart may be opened – I’ m serious, because right now, you are a Pharisee – and whoever is feeding you this hate is closing the door of the kingdom of god to you.
@John – I agree that unions should represent the rights of workers and their families. Inclusive of their homosexual workers and their families. Disadvantage on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation or marital status is wrong and should be eradicated as soon as possible.
Just look at that picture of Katter, what a nasty old redneck. i wish only the worst for this terminal BIGOT.
Deuteronomy
“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.” 22:5
God says not be bring any whore, sodomite, or dog into the house of the Lord. For “these things are an abomination to the Lord.” Sodomites and dogs are biblical names for homosexuals. 23:17-18
1 Samuel
Saul is angered by his son’s homosexual affair with David and says, “do not I know that thou has chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?” 20:30
Saul sets an example for Christian parents that discover that they have a homosexual child: try to kill the child and his or her lover. 20:31-33
Everyone deserve to be happy GAY OR STRAIGHT…I will not support Bob Katter and Campbell Newmam.I am supporting the battle for the Gay`s and Lesbian`s,everybody should have the right to get married who every they want to be happy…
I might be a shade old fashioned, but personally I think that unions should be about supporting workers and advocating for jobs and they should keep their big noses out of social policy. Considering the stance of the KAP on encouraging jobs in Queensland, they should be more than happy.
I can’t believe that such redneckery still survives in Queensland.
@Stuart, the SDA is also on the record as not supporting marriage equality. Shameful.
I was at this event in Bardon today, Well done Andrew Fraser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMxkVvhhbyw
We also reject Bob Katter and Campbell Newman in our electorate of Ashgrove.
We do not want to be governed by rednecks thanks.
Nice to see the Queensland Council of Unions throwing their weight behind the gay community. Unfortunatley, the same cannot be said about the Communications, Electrical and Plumbers Union (CEPU). I’m a member and, until recently, was a delegate, but resigned due to their apathy and lack of support for gay rights.