Comments on: Gay ally won’t support marriage

By: PeterinSydney

PeterinSydney — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:01:18 +0000

Warren Entsch is just covering his own arse. How typical for a politician. He is a right hand dude for Abbott, so don’t expect anything from him. He is a time waster.

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:05:14 +0000

What a knob. Are we meant to be grateful that he supports us to sit at the back of the marriage bus in the civil unions secton???

By: JackAlison

JackAlison — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:57:12 +0000

What a pompous arse
Dictating an agenda on HIS terms
I don’t care how friendly he is
A paternalistic ego centric pric
He’s just like the rest
We desperately need a
1)bill of rights
2)rigourous anti-discrimination legislation
and a
3)high court challenge

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:35:25 +0000

With friends like Barnaby Joyce and Bill Heffernan, who needs enemies?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:59:42 +0000

This is very disappointing news.

By: Michael Moore

Michael Moore — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:56:04 +0000

Warren has been up to this type of duplicitous support / non-support for gays for years…. he wants to *be seen* to be a friend of the poofs. I’ve been in conversation over dinner with him where he recounts many a gay friendly story – always couched with a nervous disposition I might add. He’s told his Lib followers that any more gay law reform (civil union / marriage) is “not a priority and there are many other things to deal with..” After some critical (non-gay related) stories I’d written on CairnsBlog.net about Entsch (his secretary not paying $750,000 in bills to local Cairns businesses and when he spent truckloads on his new website in Brisbane instead of locally), he went around privately and verbalised some good ol homo bashing to all in sundry… calling me, among other things, a “horse’s hoof”, a derogatory term meant to insult. Entsch is nothing but a fraud on gay issues…. a populist that thinks he’s a trailblazer for all things gay.

By: Derek McCue

Derek McCue — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:19:04 +0000

Why do intersexuals and Transexuals need to be supported instead of gays and lesbians. where is their political muscle?

By: Perkin Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:01:47 +0000

Ben: Entsch clearly says he will not support marriage equality but the lesser civil unions. Entsch thus supports a version of apartheid for the LGBTQI community. His words of support are merely that – words. If he cannot support marriage equality, then he must stand up in front of every member of our community and explain why.

By: Brendan of Wollongong NSW

Brendan of Wollongong NSW — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:56:00 +0000

Ben, I reckon you’re giving Entsch a hall pass where none is deserved.

If he can stand up personally for civil unions, why can’t he stand up for equal marriage?

He doesn’t need to “campaign” for it, just vote for it and say so without shame.

To do this need not trump or diminish any other efforts he may be making towards intersex and transgender rights – indeed, it would enhance them and remove the appearance of flimsy excuses, double standards and wedge politics that are otherwise created by his apparent intransigence on authentic marriage equality.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:05:14 +0000

But he’s not campaigning against marriage. He’s simply not campaigning for it in order to ~successfully~ increase support for us on other fronts. How is respecting that important contribution ‘kissing arse’?

By: Dave Canberra

Dave Canberra — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:53:55 +0000

And what’s more when it comes to the vote he won’t be alone, preselections, careers and promotion will all trump marriage equality just mark my words.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:41:42 +0000

I bet one could find him at taxi club

By: davo

davo — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:40:42 +0000

We need to stand up and be counted. We have to eliminate people from seats in areas where we have the opportunity and replace them with people of action, not words. We will not get gay marriage until we scare them into it.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:13:44 +0000

There are some seven Liberal MP’s that will cross the floor with a little movement from the leadership that I can recall just off the top my head. The Libertarians gaining voice after many years in the cold.

It is time for ‘movers and shakers’ to regroup and give time to regroup, and plan strategy.

For either the Greens or Labor to push a bill prematurely for wedge purposes is malproductive and self serving, and indeed they should be part of a consultative process. While Abbott pushes his, ‘dissolving of barriers’ between church and State agenda, a bill will be still-born.

There are many Libertarian Gay and Lesbians in the electorates of Hockey and Abbott whom would see and issue of equality that needs addressing. They should be encouraged to give voice.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:44:57 +0000

Bloody hell, the gay and lesbian community kiss the asses of Turnbull and Entsch, but turns out they are just a friendly version of Joe de Bruyn