By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 05:27:07 +0000

Typical ACL lies, don’t they have a commandment about telling the truth? They must have dropped that. There are two sides to the marriage equality debate, both have exhibited their share of poor behaviour. Some extreme activists on the Yes side have used social media etc to shut down No side meetings, for example. It’s not clear from social media how many of these folks exist, or how many are Australian, but it’s not representative of the broad Yes campaign. On the No side, on the other hand, the most prominent No campaigner in Australia is Senator Cory Bernardi, who linked marriage equality with legalisting bestiality because he’s a disgusting toad. So the “extremists” in the No campaign ARE AT THE VERY TOP OF THE CAMPAIGN, LEADING IT.

The No campaign is all about bullying. They have no rational argument to make, as the Irish referendum proved all they can do is tell lies. They are lead by liars and bullies like Bernardi. The debate and any hope of a reasonable discussion went out the window when Bernardi (then a front bencher in the Liberal government) used his Senate position to slander Australia’s gay community for no better reason than he could.

That said, the Yes campaign should have a quiet word with the folks who stopped the meeting or are harassing IBM, it detracts from the big picture and stoops to the ACL’s level.

By: Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 07:42:29 +0000

It's disappointing that you linked to the ACL video and not the official version on The Drum web site. It's also disappointing you didn't pick up on the apology and correction the ABC issued: https://mikeybear.com.au/2017/03/30/apology-from-abc-the-drum

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