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by Tory Shepherd

16 Oct 12:15pm

Filed under: Animals, Bestiality, Cory Bernardi, Liberal Party, Politics, Sex

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You’ve gotta admire Cory Bernardi for sticking by his (misguided, mischievous, warped, cruel) guns. Don’t you?

Cartoon: Peter Nicholson

Well, you don’t have to admire him in general. But it was good to see that he didn’t come out today with a typical politician’s mealy-mouthed, insincere apology for linking homosexuality to bestiality. Because we all know he wouldn’t have meant it.

Senator Bernardi dropped the bestiality clusterbomb a month ago. He was employing what is by now a tired, limp argument against same-sex marriage – in essence, that if you make one change to marriage then others will follow.

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Ian1 says:

06:53pm | 16/10/12

Politics makes strange bedfellows. Case in point, shouldn’t multiple spouses be on the agenda too? I imagine at least a few marriages would have survived if that were the case. Multiple husbands or wives? Who could refuse that once the saloon doors were flung so far apart. Careful to avoid… Read more »
Seano says:

06:50pm | 16/10/12

The silent majority, rarely silent and rarely in the majority. Read more »

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