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August 8, 2010 5:27 PM   Subscribe

"Children in homosexual relationships are subject to emotional abuse. Legitimising gay marriage is like legalising child abuse," --wendy4sentate's twitter

Wendy Francis, a candidate from Australia's Family First party has gobsmacked the Australian gay rights lobby by equating legalising gay marriage with legalising child abuse on Twitter and then posting a statement on her website calling for government to "end the gay marriage debate and protect children from abuse".

Both the tweet and her longer statement were removed after being bombarded with thousands of replies and Francis is yet to make a statement to any Australian media.
posted by Talez (7 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: maybe have more than one link fleshing this out? It's pretty thin outragefilter/Conservatives Say The Darndest Things right now -- mathowie



 
An article about a tweet about a gaybasher saying something insensitive.

It's no blog post about a font someone found on a movie poster, or thinly-disguised advertising, but I suppose it'll do for weekend MetaFilter- let's get this baby to 150 comments.
posted by hamida2242 at 5:31 PM on August 8, 2010 [2 favorites]


[j/k Talez, you're alright in my book]
posted by hamida2242 at 5:32 PM on August 8, 2010


Nuh-uh
posted by The Whelk at 5:32 PM on August 8, 2010


If it wasn't for legitimising being spelled with w/o the z, I'd think Wendy was running for office in the US.
posted by birdherder at 5:33 PM on August 8, 2010


No.
posted by Splunge at 5:34 PM on August 8, 2010


Must we?
posted by Gator at 5:35 PM on August 8, 2010


Children shouldn't be in homosexual relationships! They should wait until they are 13 or 14 like the straight kids do.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:36 PM on August 8, 2010 [2 favorites]


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