"Candidates should declare Sexual Preference"

[SassyMummy]

The only time sexual preference would affect my vote is if their preference was for children or something...

It's ridiculous, and I agree with you 4Boys... what nutters!

[veve]

Sorry if this offends anyone but 'family first' are a bunch of idiots. Sure they have given themselves a lovely little title so that the unsuspecting, unresearched voter might think 'Mmmm, I love my family, they look good, they might help families'
They should change their name to 'nutters anom'

since I heard that one of their candidates said in an interview (last election) that all lesbians should be burnt at the stake .. I highly doubt they are very tolerant people ..

which FRUSTRATES me - because their party name is misleading - that kind of bias, intolerance is NOT what I want my family thinking... so its hardly putting the family first .. sigh ..

I dont want to think about howard or rudd shagging - a man OR a woman

politics has nothing to do with sexual preference... sigh .. just get off your butt - do your job .. and make my life better - that is all I ask.

xx
Jen

[Ana Gram]

I usually count backwards when voting, and Family First are Family Last for me.

[Odessa]

I lob Family First in with the other nutbag fringe groups like One Nation and Fred Nile's Christian Dems.

FF were recently embarrassed when their candidate for Reid in western Sydney, Andrew Quah, was found to have circulated explicit photos of himself on the internet. They quickly disendorsed him and expelled him from the party. Poor old Family First. You think they'd have a screening process? Apparently this Quah character was a rabid political activist while at university and was a committed communist - that is, until he found the light of Family First?

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html

[~Bec~]

I dont want to think about howard or rudd shagging - a man OR a woman

Thanks, I now have that image in my head.

[Tam-I-Am]

how far are they going to go with this. do they need to stand up and say - my name is Mike, I am a happily married hetero and on Saturday nights my wife whips me with wet celery....

ridiculous.

oh wait

Ok but what should you know?

Would you want to know if they are religious?

Married?
If not married do they have someone? does that person live with them?


What do you think you should know?

I don't think I need to know ANY of that - I think that what people do has nothing to do with how they can run a country. I would like to think that my clients at work don't think that my sexual preferences, marital status, relgious beliefs etc would impact on my ability to do my job - and if they did, they'd be sadly mistaken.

[Bumblez]

how far are they going to go with this. do they need to stand up and say - my name is Mike, I am a happily married hetero and on Saturday nights my wife whips me with wet celery....

ridiculous.

i'm now going to look at celery in a whole new light....



this really cracks me up

[Odessa]

The celery thing reminds me of one of my favourite Keatingisms:

(on being attacked by John Hewson) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.

[Phyllis Stein]

The celery thing reminds me of one of my favourite Keatingisms:

(on being attacked by John Hewson) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.

Oh, the eloquence! And the arrogance...

"I am not like the Leader of the Opposition (JHo). I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot..."
"I'd put him (John Hewson) in the same class as the rest of them: mediocrity".

If politics must be adversarial, at least it should be entertaining too...

[Odessa]

Hear, hear!