An Australian politician has suggested legalising same-sex marriage will lead to demands for beastiality to also be sanctioned.
Speaking on a gay marriage bill sponsored by four Labor senators last night, Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi described the push for same-sex marriage as “another chip in the fabric of our social mores” and part of an attack on “our enduring institutions”, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
“The time has come to ask, when will it end? If we are prepared to redefine marriage… what is the next step?” Senator Bernardi said.
''The next step […] is having three people that love each other should be able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society, or four people. There are even some creepy people out there, who say that it's OK to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals. Will that be a future step?''
A number of Labor senators spoke in favour of the bill, with Senator John Faulkner saying the debate was not about the value of marriage or its role in society.
“It is a debate on the simple question of whether it is right for a government to deny some of its citizens access to a secular, government-recognised status on the basis of the gender of the person they choose to share their life with.”
Senator Bernardi’s comments echo that of New Zealand Conservative Party leader Colin Craig, who suggested it was “not intelligent to pretend that homosexual relationships are normal”.
“It is important that marriage remains between a man and a woman,” Mr Craig said.
He later called an 80-40 vote in favour of the Marriage Amendment Bill a “failure of democracy”.
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source: newshub archive
