Alex Antic (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

What does it say about us as a society when we commemorate our Anzacs on a single day and yet we get a whole month for pride? What is Pride Month? In case you've been living under a rock, haven't wandered past your local council chambers to see it lit up in rainbow colours, logged onto your bank portal and seen the rainbow logo, or trudged into your office lunchroom to be forced to eat a rainbow cupcake, Pride Month is a four-week campaign from the corporate sector in which we're all told to celebrate the sexual preferences of a small minority of the population at the risk of excommunication from polite society should we refuse. I'm here to tell you that being sceptical about this and the motives of this exercise in corporate rainbow washing doesn't make you a bigot or a homophobe. It just makes you someone who wants to watch the footy without getting another political message jammed down your throat.

Rational people scratch their heads at the concept of having to publicly celebrate one's sexuality with BDSM displays, especially for an entire month. As I said, we don't remember the sacrifices of our fallen Anzacs for an entire month. Do you know the Anzacs, the people who fought for this nation and endured the gravest of hardships? We honour these people on a single day. I wonder what they would think about this. Despite what the grievance industry wants you to think, we all support LGBT people and their community and we want what's best for them, but don't be fooled—this isn't about what's good for LGBT people; this is just another attempt to divide Australians on sexuality.