“Gay Express” Rag Resorts To Bully Tactics Against Mps In Civil Union Debate

“The latest Express Magazine (30 June-12 July), the major organ for the homosexual, lesbian and transgender communities, resorts to desperate bully tactics in its efforts to denigrate MPs who voted against sending the Civil Union Bill to the Justice & Electoral Committee,” says Society president Mike Petrus.

On its front page and smeared across the colour photos of MPs who opposed the Bill are the words “THE UGLY FACES OF HOMOPHOBIA”. These are 50 men and women, Mr Petrus says, “who in good conscience chose not to support the Bill and who are now denigrated and subjected to strictly ad hominem attack.

“The term ‘homophobia’ is clearly being used as a term of abuse to try and marginalise anyone who does not support the bill, which includes MPs from all parties with the exception of the Greens and the Alliance. It is ironic that those who assert they are so-marginalised and discriminated against by society should stoop to such gutter-level tactics in trying to marginalise those who hold views that differ from their own,” he says.

“The Express Magazine has indulged in a puerile attempt to try and stigmatise MPs of the stature of the Hon. Winston Peters, Hon. Maurice Williamson and Hon. Peter Dunne, who wouldn’t for a moment accept the accusations levelled at them. Despite the Prime-Minister’s assertions to the contrary, these sorts of attacks from the 'gay' community lend weight to the observation that ‘gay-rights’ activists have high-jacked this Bill for their own benefit and agenda. It is noteworthy too that the Prime-Minister has used Express to vent her own distaste for the views of the Maxim Institute which opposes the Civil Union Bill and tried to marginalise this conservative research organisation whose views on family values and marriage differ from her own.”

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

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