Tim Watts (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

He will be writing cheques to the kinds of groups who produce television ads telling LGBTI Australians that they are flawed parents who will damage their children. He will be writing cheques to the groups that will install billboards telling LGBTI teenagers that the love they feel and the relationships that they enter into are inferior to heterosexual love and not deserving of recognition from the society in which they live.

You can understand why the former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, wanted this. After all, the former Prime Minister was comfortable with groups like the Australian Marriage Alliance. He recently told the US Alliance Defending Freedom, a group that has actively sought to roll back anti-discrimination laws, that homosexuality was a personal choice. But why will Malcolm Turnbull write them a cheque? Because it is easier than showing leadership in his party. (Time expired)

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