Bob Katter wants to take the word “gay” back from gay people
Image: Bob Katter. Image: Bob Katter / Facebook.
CONSERVATIVE MP Bob Katter has accused the LGBTI community of stealing the word ‘gay’, and he wants it back.
Katter told Sky News last night that he was furious gay people had “taken” the word, The Australian has reported.
“I have a very clear idea of what is going on here: the homosexuals in Australia, they took the word gay,” he said.
“It has a particular meaning to me because I got 84 per cent in English, in matriculation, which was a very, very high mark indeed.”
Katter went on to talk about The Rape of the Lock, a text he studied in school, which uses the word ‘gay’ in its original sense.
“It was the most beautiful word in the English language, and [homosexuals] said ‘oh god we will take that word and we will have it as ours’,” Katter said.
He expressed concern that gay people would also “take” marriage and freedom of speech.
“’Oh they’ve got this thing called marriage, the other mob, we will take that too’. Well what else are they going to take? Are they going to take our freedom to say we don’t approve of what you are doing?
“That is what is happening here, they are taking it away from us, the same as the most beautiful word in the English language was taken away from all of us and they took it for themselves.”
Voters have only today to enrol or update their details to ensure they can vote in the upcoming postal poll for marriage equality.
First up, Katter tells porkies when he says “Australian Homosexuals took the word “Gay”!
We didn’t just like every single person living or dead in Australia, the word “Gay” as a reference to the GLTBIQ Community, is an Immigrant Word. We adopted it from the USA.
Rather than persisting in his eternal homophobic rants may be Bobbsie should concentrate on cleaning up Queensland: The Land of the Scam, The Con-job, the Rip-off. There are more scams etc. which originated in Queensland created by Queensland criminals and con artists than those which come out of Nigeria.
At least the Nigerians are trying their scams on people outside Nigeria.
Bobbsie’s Queensland scammers are worse for they are ripping off Australians.
Just remember this: Bob Katter is no different to any of our politicians – particularly those from the Federal Parliament.
They live an almost Cost Free Life and all at the expense of the Taxpayers.
They get huge, undeserved salaries to which they add even more 10s of 1000s for sitting on their socalled “Parliamentary Committees – they are just an excuse to swell their bank accounts. They Travel to and from Home at Taxpayers expense. They get paid over $300 per night if they have to spend the night or nights in Canberra – $300 which they have even admitted ends up in the pockets of Family Members because they stay in houses, flats etc. owned by family members. When they go overseas their Premium Business Class Return Air Travel is paid for by the Taxpayers, their 5-Star Luxury Hotels are paid for by the Taxpayers. One of them recently was revealed as having stayed with her partner at an hotel which cost Taxpayers $16,000.00 per night! Whilst away, we , the taxpayers pay for all their food and wine. Whilst in Canberra they Wine and Dine in the Parliamentary Dining Room with us, the Taxpayers, subsidising the cost.
When Bob Katter and his ALP, Liberal, National, Green, One nation and others start showing a bit of interest in Australia and her People rather than themselves then they have the right to criticise us.
Its easy to say not surprising, but the sad truth is that this national embarrassment actually represents and gets votes from the ugliest and dumbest of the Australian population.
Bob Katter- I regret I cannot speak to your face, right in your face, and so would you because I would probably just punch you right in the face.
At least focus on real issues, such as the rural economy or something, and cease using such cheap distractions from the real and important issues. Just shut your stupid mouth. You are contributing to the laughing stock of the world that Australia is fast becoming.
This is seriously sad that our politicians ARE actually getting worse- they are setting new benchmarks for the depths of stupidity and incompetence, as well as general gutlessness!
I want to take back the word Christian from the RWNJs. They don’t speak for me.
If Bob feels he’s ‘lost’ something called ‘gay’ and ‘marriage’, don’t bore us with it. Report it to the Lost Property Office.
As a straight dude I’m in no position to make deals on behalf of the gay community but here’s an idea: how about the gays give Bob ‘gay’ back when the only references we hear to ‘faggots’ are specifically references to bundles of sticks. Make it a package deal. Just a thought.