Comments on: Equality Australia launches to continue fight against LGBTI discrimination /news/national-news/equality-australia-launches-to-continue-fight-against-lgbti-discrimination/174258 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:01:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Dave /news/national-news/equality-australia-launches-to-continue-fight-against-lgbti-discrimination/174258#comment-608388 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:01:31 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=174258#comment-608388 I enjoy watching ultra-right reactionary Rohan Dean on Outsiders on a Sunday, I usually can only stomach 10 minutes or so, but it’s some incredibly entertaining shrieking going on.

He was furious that White magazine closed down after sponsors dumped it when they declined to cover gay weddings. “We were told nothing would change when same sex marriage came in” he ranted, completely forgetting that this was a free market issue and he loves the free market. So imagine his reaction to this news that the anti-discrimination campaign keeps rolling on.

The fact, “conservative” reactionary dickheads, is that you brought this on. Tony Abbott couldn’t be a normal conservative and adhere to the High Court ruling that this was firmly a matter for Federal Parliament, he had to go all “You can’t trust politicians” and have a plebiscite. Not conservative to declare war when none was needed, that’s reactionary. Then they got absolutely smashed in the popular vote, unbelievably played the victim card and demanded a religious freedom inquiry. Not conservative to demand an inquiry when you don’t already know the answers, Margaret Thatcher would be rolling in her grave. The answers turned out to be so bad we still only have leaked extracts from a report which was due six months ago.

And now entirely thanks to the Tony Abbott / Rohan Dean / Milo Whatever crowd a whole new range of battles have opened up, and they’re going to lose all of them. If they were true conservatives they never would have gotten into this mess, but they’re reactionary dickheads and they deserve to lose and lose and lose.

Keep up the great work Equality Australia. Keep it sensible, rational and reasonable and let your enemies bring on these dumb battles, and you’ll go great.

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