Bob Katter says homosexuality is a ‘fashion trend’ and a ‘waste of time’
Image: Bob Katter. Image: Bob Katter / Facebook.
Queensland MP Bob Katter has been slammed for labelling homosexuality a “fashion trend” and that he had “never seen or heard of a homosexual person” until he was 50.
Katter made the comments while on the campaign trail for Katter’s Australian Party candidate Anthony Wallis, who is standing for the Maranoa electorate, according to The Dalby Herald.
“In my whole life up to 50, I had never seen or heard of a homosexual person,” the controversial MP said.
“Now it’s fashionable, it’s just like a fashion trend — tomorrow there’ll be another fashion,” said Katter. “I just don’t want to waste any time on it.”
Katter also addressed anti-bullying programs in a typically cryptic – perhaps simply nonsensical – fashion.
“It’s sort of controversial,” he said. “‘Stop bullying’ which is pro-homosexual, is the way I would describe the ‘stop bullying’ campaign.”
While campaigning, Wallis said that marriage equality was Malcolm Turnbull’s only ‘achievement’ as Prime Minister.
It’s yet another entry on a long list of anti-LGBTI statements from Katter, who infamously said he would “walk backwards to Bourke” if there were gay people in his electorate.
Katter went on a bizarre tirade during the postal survey complaining about the word ‘gay’ being taken away from straight people.
“I have a very clear idea of what is going on here: the homosexuals in Australia, they took the word gay,” he said at the time.
“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’.
“’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,” Katter said.
The ultra-conservative politician complained in November 2017 that the focused on marriage equality was detracted from the more pressing issue of killer crocodiles.
“I mean, people are entitled to their sexual proclivities,” he said.
“Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I’m concerned.
“But I ain’t spending any time on it, because in the mean time, every three months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland.”
Katter then made a baffling speech in parliament in December 2017, in which he warned that boys would be forced to crossdress at schools, said that people are “genetically programmed” to be straight, and claimed that gay people were responsible for transmitting AIDS to “poor little children” through blood donations.
“The people advocating this proposition tonight, the LGBTIs, have maybe 60 years on their side. I have 3.5 million years of genetic programming on my side,” he said.
Katter’s latest comments come just a day after releasing a campaign video promoting “Australianism”.
CALLING BOB KATTER GAY DOESN’T AID IN CALLING OUT HIS HOMOPHOBIA. IT ACTUALLY PERPETUATES IT.
*LOOP FOREVER*
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— Kirsty Webeck ????️???? (@KirstyWebeck) January 23, 2019
We really have no right to criticise America and Trump or the Philippines and Rodrigo Duterte when we have clowns like this buffoon and Scott Morrison in the Australian parliament. Just remember this tirade in the upcoming elections Australia and remember, you get the politicians you vote for!!
What about his brother? Does he really expect us to believe that he did not know that his own brother was not homosexual?
Let’s not forget that the only reason he got into parliament at all was because he rode in there on his father’s coat-tails. He did not get there on Merit or because he was even intelligent. As with so many other bits of dead-wood in our parliaments Katter got his seat as a result of nepotism. I wonder how he feels about his latest candidate Wallis who has praised Malcolm Turnbull for bringing in Marriage Equality. How long will he last? Remember also that Katter took on Fraser Anning as his candidate after he left One Nation and then dumped him because it was politically opportunistic to do so.
Good ol Bob – keeping the intelligence average on Australian politicians really really low!
Dear Mr. Katter,
Homosexual attraction is not a human-construct (please Google that term if it’s foreign to you).
Many species exhibit homosexual attraction/behaviour.
Famous, known homosexuals prior to your date of denial: 1950:
Again– Google is your friend.
Why are you so afraid of homosexuality/anything not heterosexual?
Have you ever thought about it?
Great to see we are now recognised s being fashionable and trendy, because we have been all our lives.
Bob, talk to your brother more you moron!
Seriously, what was he really smoking that day? Honestly a parliament of toilet brushes can run this country a 100% whole lot better and efficiently – instead of Scott Morrison and his far right-wing mates at One Nation and Katter!