Lib MP needs lesson on bees and the bees after comparing gay couples to cycling mates
Kevin Andrews launches his campaign against same-sex marriage on Sky News, yesterday:
Andrews: There are all kinds of affectionate relationships. I have an affectionate relationship with you, Sam.
Samantha Maiden: We’re not married.
Andrews: That’s right, we’re not married.
Maiden: You have a very lovely wife.
We assume this going somewhere. Andrews on Sky News, continued:
I have affectionate relationships with my cycling mates, who I go cycling with on the weekend, but that’s not marriage.
Hey, mate, gay people aren’t friends they, umm, actually have sex. The Oxford English Dictionary’s definition of homosexuality:
Feeling or involving sexual attraction to people of the same sex.
You get that, yeah? Sky News, continued:
Political reporter Tom Connell: Are you saying that same-sex relationships don’t have the same depths?
Andrews: No, I’m not saying that …
Is this like the time Queen Victoria refused to ban lesbian sex? Victoria and Albert Museum website:
Lesbian and Sapphic came into use as terms for female relationships. Apocryphally, these were also due to be criminalised in the 1885 legislation (which banned gay sex between men), until Queen Victoria declared them impossible, whereupon the clause was omitted …
OK, OK, that’s just a myth. The Scotsman, January 30, 2011:
… the idea Victoria refused to sign MP Henry Labouchere’s amendment to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, until it had been de-lesbianised, is easily dealt with: the monarch in the late 19th century did not have the power to overrule parliament.
But Kevin gets that same-sex couples are more than friends, right? The former Liberal minister on Sky News, yesterday:
Connell: A colleague such as (gay Liberal MP) Tim Wilson would say he’s just as committed to his partner as other politicians are to their spouses.
Andrews: And that’s fine. I have commitments to friends. I have affectionate relationships with friends.
Oh dear. Nobody has ever told Andrews about gay sex. The Scotsman, January 30, 2011:
Some suggest the male establishment avoided legislating on lesbianism, for fear of drawing women’s attention to its existence.
Look, when two men love each other very much … Sky News, yesterday:
Maiden: Tim Wilson’s partner isn’t his friend.
Andrews: Well, I hope they’re friends.
The Queen Victoria myth was started by the Kiwis. The Scotsman, continued:
The myth apparently started in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1977, to explain why a demonstration for lesbian equality centred on a statue of Victoria.
If only we could send someone to investigate. News.com.au, yesterday:
Authorities in New Zealand have confirmed that our Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is indeed a citizen of their country.
Barnaby Joyce speaks about Greens senators’ dual citizenship troubles on Sky News, July 19:
You’ve got to be really careful when you start throwing stones when something was an honest oversight, because you bet your life the stone will come back and hit you.