These comments made people laugh, cry, and shake their damn heads.
When Eric Abetz allegedly used Dolce & Gabbana as an argument against same-sex marriage.
It was reported in August that Eric Abetz had argued against marriage equality by saying gay men don't want to get married, pointing to Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana as an example. Abetz denied the reports, but didn't confirm whether or not he had mentioned the fashion designers.
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When the Australian Marriage Forum compared marriage equality and slavery.
After the US Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage across the country in June, David van Gend at the Australian Marriage Forum was furious. So furious that he saw fit to compare the decision with the one that legalised slavery.
“The Supreme Court’s slavery decision was eventually repented of and reversed, just as the homosexual ‘marriage’ decision will have to be repented of and reversed – but after how much social damage is done?” van Gend asked.
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When Germaine Greer said transphobia isn't a thing.
"I didn't know there was such a thing," the prominent feminist author said in a talk at Cambridge University.
"Arachnophobia, yes. Transphobia, no."
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When a grown man quoted the dictionary to tell a child her same-sex family isn't normal.
News Corp columnist Piers Akerman turned to the Oxford Dictionary in order to refute an old quote from then 12-year-old Ebony, who appeared in the documentary Gayby Baby.
"Children in same-sex couple families are one in a thousand of all children in couple families (0.1 per cent). Statistically, you are not in a "normal" family, no matter how many LGBTIQ-friendly docos you may be forced to watch by politically-driven school principals," he wrote. Ebony wasn't fussed.
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