And another thing…
I’ve mentioned a few times that Prime Minister John Howard was passionately against the idea of the notion of gay marriage. Here’s what he actually said.
“You’re talking here about the survival of the species,”
An adult said this. An adult in charge of a democracy of 20 million persons. Who thinks that granting equal civil rights to around 5% of the population will somehow result in a spiralling vortex of human extinction. An adult. With an education. Our publically mandated leader. Never forget that.
The rest of the transcript is an interview with Perth Primate (*snicker*) Peter Carnley (by a disappointingly pissweak Tony Jones), who manages to heave himself across the threshold of the 20th century by acknowledging that homosexual relationships have as much gravity as heterosexual ones, but gets snagged on a branch by insisting on patronisingly referring to them as “very intense and loyal friendships”. Which is weird because, I don’t fuck my friends every night.
