Normally when people stick their foot in their mouth, they stop to take it out before putting the other one in. Not Bob the Builder though - he just keeps right on swallowing. Not content with yesterday's display of bigotry against Muslims, Bob has followed up by targeting gays:
Elaborating on his stance for the Herald on Sunday, he said he could tolerate homosexuality - even though he found it "unusual" and "not normal" - but he objected to gays promoting their sexuality in public."If you walk up and down the street picking your nose, you're a bit different, aren't you? You're going to offend somebody.
"Do it in your home if you want to," he said.
"Take that gay parade. They flaunted themselves out there that they're all different than us, and to a certain extent, in my mind, they're trying to make out that we should be the same as them."
Really? I don't see gays telling people that they should hide their sexuality in public, that they should "keep it in the closet", that they should pretend to be gay in order to avoid giving offence. But "hypocrisy" is probably too advanced a concept for someone who finds any sign that someone is different from himself to be disturbing and threatening.
As Helen Clark points out, this is par for the course for National. But most National MPs are usually too smart to say it...
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the test then I gues is does he oppose the boobs on bikes thing
I doubt it (considering his repuation) but maybe
Posted by Anonymous : 8/27/2006 01:07:00 PM
"Really? I don't see gays telling people that they should hide their sexuality in public, that they should "keep it in the closet", that they should pretend to be gay in order to avoid giving offence."
Really? Read this re the views of th e gay community on "heteronormativity"
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3763803a11,00.html
Posted by Gooner : 8/27/2006 03:02:00 PM
Clarkson decifers an implied meaning from gay parades; "they're trying to make out that we should be the same as them".
However, it's fine for the old hypocrite to expressly state we should all be the same as him. I don't expect him to realise the contradiction.
As for all his 'us and them' garbage, it's people like him drawing the lines.
What an embarrassment for National this guy's turned out to be, did he not get the party email about 'wooing urban liberals', and about keeping his prejudices under raps until the party conference- when he can let fly in the safety of conservative christiandom.
Posted by james cairney : 8/27/2006 08:09:00 PM
James,
he was standing for the electorate that elected winston - he may well have been told to spout as much rubbish as possible.
Posted by Genius : 8/27/2006 08:28:00 PM
What I would like to know is why Don Brash has been so silent on this. Does he tacitly endorse Clarkson's comments?
Posted by Jordan : 8/28/2006 11:09:00 AM
Bob DOES represent a particular electorate of buffoons out there. It would be nice if we could dismiss his utterances as just a buffoon talking to buffoons. Unfortunately,as Christian activists instruct us, dim witted buffoonery is very, very dangerous when allied with money, a wholesome lifestyle which doesn't have a lot of excitement and determined organisation.
Posted by Sanctuary : 8/28/2006 04:01:00 PM
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