Ugly and racist same-sex marriage rant caught on camera

A WOMAN has been filmed yelling racist abuse at an anti same-sex marriage campaigner as she tried to remove his signs.

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A SAME-SEX marriage supporter has been caught on camera shouting racist abuse at a No voter while removing his signs from a Sydney intersection.

Video posted on Ray Hadley’s Facebook page shows a young woman collecting signs that say “It’s OK to vote No” posted around a busy intersection at King Georges Road in Sydney’s west.

The young woman is shown swearing, yelling insults and running down the middle of the road before approaching a Lebanese-Catholic Australian man known as Alan who is filming the encounter.

“Gimme those signs,” she said to him while he tells her not to touch him.

“You’ve done well. That will do. You’re not taking them,” Alan said.

“Give me those signs,” she replies. “I’m not threatening anybody, you’re double the size of me.”

Alan says to her: “Please don’t touch me or my signs,” before copping racist abuse.

“Get the f**k out of our country,” she yells at him while walking away down the road.

“Go back to la la la la la Arabland ... you want to change our country, go change your own f***d up country get the f**k out of ours.”

Alan later told Ray Hadley he was shocked to receive racist abuse having been born and raised in Australia. He said he has been putting up the signs every second day along King Georges Road for the last couple of weeks.

“I was a bit concerned about her safety because she seemed really erratic and over the top,” he said.

“That’s the kind of stuff we get all the time ... We love and respect all people, this is a debate ... to be vilified and to be chased around. She literally chased me around.”

Hadley praised him for showing “remarkable restraint” in the encounter, while Alan said it was “ironic” to be faced with racist abuse from a same-sex marriage supporter.

“Even though I’m born here and raised here ... apparently I should go back there which is ironic because you think the left is aligned with minority groups.”

It comes after former Prime Minster Tony Abbott received a headbutt from a Tasmanian man wearing a Yes badge.

The anarchist DJ Astro Labe said it was nothing to do with the debate but motivated by “personal hatred” for Mr Abbott.

“I didn’t think it was an opportunity I’d get again,” he said.

The same-sex marriage debate has prompted a wave of vitriol from both sides, with marketing experts slamming the “invasive” and “grubby” tactics from both Yes and No campaigns.

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