There to no good reason to place any faith in the Coalition on this issue while Tony Abbott is leader. Abbott opposes marriage equality. He has described it as “the gay marriage distraction”. He has said he personally will do nothing to advance it. He has consistently opposed a true conscience vote on it by the Coalition. He seems to have been quite unconcerned by John Howard describing marriage equality as “nonsense” on the campaign trail this week. The single most prominent obstruction to marriage equality in Australia since Tony Abbott became leader is Tony Abbott.

I love this comment so much.

Hypocrisy is rife with you people. How quickly you all forget.

Gay marriage is important, but it’s not pivotal to gay survival – we’ve lasted this long. There are more pressing issues to attend to before we so carelessly place faith in a man who so quickly changes his mind as he does the leadership.

Policy is key, not pandering.

I sincerely doubt Christine is being used. More likely she simply doesn’t care about anyone less privileged than herself. Considering she is related to Tony Abbott and was doubtless raised with the same moral compass, it’s not all that surprising.

Is Christine even Gay? Or is she a mole sent to try and divide our beliefs and worm the LNP tendrils in to our community.

You can’t fool us Christine. The only good thing about an Abbott government (which perhaps you’re actually, secretly aware of), is that it will fan the flames of anger our community feels about being treated as second class citizens, promoting a new, stronger movement towards equality.

Though I’d still prefer the much easier route of voting in a Government that is putting same-sex marriage at the forefront of their election campaign and not just treating it as ‘nonsense’ and the ‘fashion of the moment’.

Far too long have Abbots daughters been pulled out and waved in front if the public to say ‘our dad isn’t a misogynist, he’s just a dag’

Far too long has Abbot pretended to care for anyone other than himself and for the next three years there’s a risk that we’ll have to accept his hateful bigotry day after day. But I will NOT accept his sister saying liberals under abbot are our hope for equality. Ive lost all respect for her as a person with this. Shame Christine.

Christine, you’re a poor excuse for a lesbian, and no friend to any of us,

You silly cow.

Tony Abbott has also openly abused his sister’s status of being a lesbian, whilst actively denying her respect, love, support, equality, and her humanity.. the worst thing is she has ACTIVELY allowed it.

Christine, he says he ‘loves you’ but to treat you the way he does is nothing but DNA admiration… Love would see him actively ensuring that you were as equal as every other person in the country. Love would see him defending you to the death. Love would mean that his ‘politics’ ran last to his your welfare and human rights.

Christine, you are a woman who needs support, love and kindness to see that NOBODY deserves to treat you that way, ESPECIALLY not family… You are still so full of shame that you would allow someone to treat you so badly. You need a massive wake up call – if he were my brother, I would not stand by and let him use me as his ‘GLBTI playing card’…
Please stop defending someone who is so indefensible. I would love to see you lead from the front,stand up to his abhorrent treatment of the GLBTI community (and you) and show Australia what a strong woman you are. Show Australia that NOBODY deserves to be bullied and have their rights denied to them, ESPECIALLY by family.

If he loved you, he would allow you to be free… He doesn’t truly love you.

The LNP has record of the exact opposite on gay civil rights issues.

1. Specifically banning same-sex marriage in 2004.

2. John Howard refusing to let his party support a raft of amendments to Federal laws removing discrimination against same-sex couples. Only after Howard’s fall in 2007 did is party vote Yes with Labor.

3. Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party voting in 2013 to allow church-run but taxpayer-funded aged care homes to refuse admission to gay and lesbian people. Not a single Christian aged care provider supported this position.

Christine, stop the bullshit. You must acknowledge your party’s homophobic past if you want us to believe your promises about its future.