Australian PM Defends Homophobic Comments Made by Party Candidate
Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister of Australia, has defended homophobic comments made by a fellow Liberal party candidate, Gladys Liu, reports the Guardian Australia.
Gladys Liu, who fought a campaign against equal marriage in the country, reportedly said in a 2016 interview: “A lot of Chinese parents, they do not agree with letting boys go into a girls’ toilets. Not only toilets, it’s also the crossdressing, the introduction of transgender. It is something they found difficult to accept.
“The second thing is same-sex marriage… that is their belief that same-sex is against normal practice.
“Chinese people come to Australia because they want a good education for their children… not to be destroyed by these sort of concepts of same-sex, transgender, intergender, crossgender and all this rubbish. To them, this is ridiculous rubbish.”
Morrison claims Liu is being misrepresented: “As she said at the time when she was campaigning for the previous Liberal candidate, and now current member in Chisholm, she was simply saying that these were the views of that community.”
The Guardian has since released a recording of the interview and stands by its initial report.
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