CORY… A ST. BERNARD OF A SENATOR!
UPDATE:
Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi has resigned as Opposition leader Tony Abbott’s personal parliamentary secretary following a storm of condemnation of his view that legalising gay marriage could lead to the legalising of bestiality.
In announcing Senator Bernardi’s resignation Mr Abbott said: “They are views that I don’t share. They are views that many people will find repugnant.”
Here’s The Hoopla’s view…
There might have to be something of a media blackout for the kids for a couple of days otherwise you’re going to have some explaining to do about the term “bestiality”.
And why, if we allow gay people to marry, the next thing you know someone will want to get married to a horse….or date a dog.
Oops! Some folks already did in the US and it was in an episode of the Jerry Springer show a while back.
“Titled I Married a Horse, the show includes a guy describing his five-year marriage…yes, marriage…to a horse named Pixel, a woman recounting her whirlwind romance with her dog and a man who says he pines only for canines.”
Who knows if South Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi saw it when he was visiting his friends in the US Tea Party, with whom he has close ties.
Speaking in Parliament last night on a gay marriage bill sponsored by four Labor senators, Senator Bernardi said the push for same-sex marriage was part of an attack on “our enduring institutions”.
If same sex unions were allowed, he mused, what would be next? Legality for polygamy? Bestiality?
“It is another chip in the fabric of our social mores,” he said. “The time has come to ask, when will it end? If we are prepared to redefine marriage … what is the next step?”
“The next step … is having three people that love each other should be able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society, or four people. There are even some creepy people out there, who say that it’s OK to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals. Will that be a future step?”
Well, it’s plain to see who’s the “creepy” one here.
Looks like Senator Bernardi, known as one of Tony Abbott’s “attack dogs” has bitten off more than he can chew with this one.
It’s reported he has been called in to Mr Abbott’s office and Malcolm Turnbull has “totally disassociated” him from the remarks.
Labor and Greens MPs and gay rights lobby groups have furiously rejected his remarks as “highly offensive, appalling” and as having “taken the civility out of the debate”.
Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has called for Senator Bernardi’s sacking as Mr Abbott’s parliamentary secretary.
At The Hoopla, we reckon it’s time he kept his big yap shut too.
What’s your view?
46 Responses to this article
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Colin September 19, 2012
People with such ridiculous views as Bernardi’s (and silly enough to voice them) have no right to be in Australia’s parliament. Hopefully the people of SA will see sense and vote him out at the next election. Offensive and just plain stupid, Cory Bernardi. You’re a fool.
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redandwhite September 19, 2012
Notice how Mr Abbott only says he doesn’t share Bernardi’s view, he stops short of saying he himself finds it repugnant.
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Rick September 19, 2012
how cute, someone talking about bestiality that is known as one of Abbott’s ‘attack dogs’, oops
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beReal September 19, 2012
Why all the fuss? His comments are totally justified when you consider that the arguments given to support SSM are exactly the same as the arguments used by other groups who want 3 men married, 2 men and a woman, and oh yes….marriage with an animal. Seems Cory made an obvious comment. No wonder the media have twisted Cory’s words with headlines like “Bernadi compares same-sex marriage with Bestiality”. In my opinion…case dismissed.
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Don't be Naive September 20, 2012
I agree…next thing paedophiles will justify their love for a child and seek legal recourse to marry one. Just wait.
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Janet Georgouras September 19, 2012
This man’s statement shows serious ignorance. To think that he attained a senate seat is the real concern.
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KMo September 19, 2012
So ridiculous that someone would even think this is where equality could lead. I’ve also been trying to work out how you can have “consensual” sexual relations with an animal? Is it 1 bark for yes, 2 barks for no?
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DeeDee September 19, 2012
how does one obtain consent from an animal to have sexual relations? what an absolute twit! how he attained a senate seat is a real concern indeed, scary! I also agree with redandwhite Abbott hasn’t condemned his comments nearly enough. Amazing!
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Brendan September 19, 2012
To continue in the vein of anamistic comparison this would appear to be an extraordinary happenstance of one who has quietly erected the screens around himself and pulled the trigger on his own blunderbuss thereby humanely ending his own public career…CREEP!
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Brendan September 19, 2012
What’s next, Senator Bernardi wanting to marry a grub?…bloody social climber!
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Margot September 19, 2012
Brendan you had me laughing out loud – love it!
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neeter September 19, 2012
Wow. What a great day in politics (not). And many ask why I vote green . There’s one good reason.
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JoanneH September 19, 2012
Pity Abbott didn’t get rid of his racist anti Islam/Muslim Parliamentary secretary sooner. He has allowed him to get away with countless inflammatory remarks, and to take frequent trips to the United States to hanging out with the leadership of the fanatical Tea Party red necks. Senator Bernardi helped Alan Jones organise the failed truckers’ protest, and earlier this year he suggested “celebrating” asylum seekers’ boat arrivals by sending Julia Gillard a birthday cake with the same number of candles on it as the boats that had arrived since she began as PM.
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Rhoda September 19, 2012
More and more of these nutters are coming out of the woodwork. Where do they get this stuff from. Church? School? Books? Where?
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Glen September 19, 2012
The irony being the majority of other politicians voted against gay marriage today. Which is worse?
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Jenny September 19, 2012
All very well to have an opinion, and express it, against SSM, but to come out with garbage like that to make a point – words fail me!
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Carolyn September 19, 2012
Bernadi is LESS than a grub. I cannot believe his kind of trash talk is creeping into what should be an ADULT conversation.
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Leesa September 19, 2012
You know I wish to god this whole gay marriage thing had never come up. I am gay and at 49 used to homophobia and have a good sense of humour but I confess I’m losing it. It’s very hard not to take these comments personally and they do hurt. I know I’m a good human being…but to be compared to humans raping animals…or to hear people think my relationship is as unhealthy as smoking etc etc etc makes me want to go and live in a cave cut off completely…and I know some folk would be happy for me to do that. It is incredibly depressing.
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Janet Georgouras September 19, 2012
There will always be idiots out there, unfortunately, Leesa. Just remember that the good will prevail. Look how many commentators speak out in favor of same sex marriage. Don’t give trolls the privilege of upsetting and insulting you.They are simple people with complex problems.
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Miranda Muer September 20, 2012
He is a long long long way behind the times. Not since carpenter Jesus made a house for the Shephard and a separate manger for the sheep has their been a need for the things Berbardi speaks of.
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Noogi September 20, 2012
SBS’s Insight program ran an episode on polygamy in Australia earlier this year, and how it even exists (and is common) in many Indigenous communities.
I thought it amusing that one child’s complaint was that sometimes the second household “doesn’t have that fatherly figure around to actually control them [the children] and play his role [as a father]” and that “these kids get neglected” as a result. (One wonders what that child would have said about a Lesbian partnership…)
So I do agree with Bernardi that polygamy will be the next step. In much the same way that the “normality” of homosexual relationships has lead to the current Gay Marriage debate (with arguments being made that such coupling already exists, it’s all about love, it’s normal and natural), I fully expect that – once Gay Mariage is sorted in the next 10 – 20 years – that the debate will move on to polygamy.
So I believe it’s a debate that we should certainly be having now (and not childishly decrying as “never gonna happen” like some sites have said this morning).
Now, as to whether that will move on to bestiality… That’s a bridge too far for me to see but Senator Bernardi is quite correct that “those people exist”. Of course, then there are the objectophiles… Perhaps one day we’ll be debating about whether it’s ok to marry your stapler?
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Don't be Naive September 20, 2012
I agree, for centuries Homosexuality was seen as abhorrent, unnatural and repulsive and punishable by law, just like paedophilia is now seen. The attempt to normalise it all will then apply to paedophilia and bestiality etc
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Jenny September 20, 2012
Yes, I agree that polygamy may one day become an issue for political discussion re the legality or otherwise – it doesn’t require an enormous leap of the imagination to foresee possible circumstances under which it could be justifiable. But to mention bestiality in the same sentence is way, way too far for anyone to consider acceptable!
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Linda September 20, 2012
So foolish, so sad. We seem to have forgotten that this about people and people being seen as equal and treated as equal. I am embarrassed by this gross and immature outburst motivated by personal bigotry at worst or ignorance at best. I expect and demand better from those who have been given the trust and faith of the electorate to do what is best for us.
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Jackie September 20, 2012
Don’t forget the lady that marriage the Eiffel Tower… I’m officially engaging myself now to the Sydney Harbour Bridge! So when it’s legal we will have a hell of a party…I mean obviously once same sex marriage is legal we will be able to marry whatever we want!….hmm my TV looks pretty sexy too!*
*tongue in cheek
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annabelle September 20, 2012
I’d like to thank Cory Bernadi for helping to enliven our dinner table conversation last night! The topic of bestiality somehow never surfaced up till now!
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Heather September 20, 2012
This exhibition of hysteria By Bernardi has snatched people’s attention away from the main issue – that the same sex marriage vote was lost by such a large margin.
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Ro. Watson September 20, 2012
Scapegoating and conscience denial~ how weird is that….
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Ro. Watson September 20, 2012
Whose version of reality are we living in today? What we do in full love and trust, in our daily lives, is good for us. So,pollies, you are not invited into our bedrooms or our trust if you perform so badly~ I for one, question your morality around who you do and don’t regard as human beings, with the same rights and obligations as you……
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Marnie September 20, 2012
As sad as it is, I can’t help feeling that there is more to this story than meets the eye……. or have I just been watching to many episodes of “Yes Minister” ?
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jane September 20, 2012
There must have been “something” in Bernardi’s past for him to have such extreme out there views.
I cant believe i m saying this but i admire him as a conviction politician
He was also the one who invited far right leader Geert Wilders to Australia……..
How many others are in parliament, through a dodgy pre-selection process that have out there views…?
I think inside the liberals they have a far right beating heart….
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jane September 20, 2012
furthermore…
he fits the liberal party stereotype
a right wing WEIRD creep….
i don”t know weather to laugh or cry but its sad….
his family must be very disappointed in this.
i wish them well!!
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Ro. Watson September 20, 2012
How many times does the horse have to tap her foot on the ground ,to say yes to gay marriage?(you know~ the old one about “I love you because(BIG HORSE) you understand me, I love you because you care……”)
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Ro. Watson September 20, 2012
I am raving tonight~ love and marriage and all that carriage ~ came with me growing up~ and a few times, I felt devoted and sincerely married,since I came out in 1977,whatever the laws said about our committment.Still, I struggle with some people who have no clue about the depth and breadth of love and committment in daily life~ this communion which has no name,unless it is gone~ when criminal and civil laws jump in for supervision to stop/halt/limit~ something quite testy should be considered~like how much good,honest,healthy same sex relationships are supported by good,honest people.
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dean September 21, 2012
Abbott is incorrect about the liberals not discriminating
Ask Mr Olexander
Btw He is a gay conservative
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mr ed September 21, 2012
What on earth does his wife see in him?
ugh
yuck
Im really interested in who she is now!!
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liza September 21, 2012
It still confounds me that people do not understand why we have Homosexual/lesbian people.
A foetus has an excess or deficiency in certain hormones while it is forming just as some may not lose the web in their feet as they move from a fish like state in utero.
My son was born with Spina Bifida although very mild.
I love my son and if he were gay or lesbian I would love him/her equally This is not a question of lifestyle choices.
If someone told me that my child should be treated differently from others I too would rise up in anger. -
mr ed September 21, 2012
Bernardi=Tosser inc
Australian made
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jonah stiffhausen September 21, 2012
I thought Bernadi was on the money. Sodom & Gomorrah and all that. Plus, sodomy must be very painful.
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royce September 21, 2012
Go carefully here everybody….
The argument is actually quite serious.
These arguments always start with outrage and ‘how could you suggest such a thing” then….No really. Maybe ‘marriage’ will only extend to same sex, or possibly polygamy, but keep in mind the groups who place animals as equal and those who treat their pets as people.
Legal connections are already there.
Then again society is always changing. Genetics will allow all sorts of cross species fun eventually so… hey…. enjoy.
