Mark Latham says media full of gays pushing marriage issue
A media commentator sacked for calling a schoolboy gay says same-sex marriage is getting saturation coverage because homosexuals are rife in the mainstream Australian media.
Mark Latham is upset gay issues get so much publicity considering that same-sex couples make up just 0.8 per cent of relationships in Australia.
‘So how do they dominate debate via same-sex marriage?’ he tweeted.
‘Because they all work in the mainstream media.’
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Media commentator Mark Latham says gay people over represented in the mainstream media
Former Labor leader Mark Latham says homosexual journalists are pushing a gay agenda
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed there were only 46,800 gay couples in 2016
Mark Latham says gay marriage gets undue attention because there are lots of gay journalists
Mr Latham, a former Labor leader, said the left-wing ABC and Fairfax Media were the worst offenders when it came to gay journalists pushing the gay marriage agenda.
‘They’re over represented and consistently pushing a militant gay left line out of step with mainstream public opinion,’ he told Daily Mail Australia on Tuesday.
His comments come as newly released data from the 2016 Census shows that there were 46,800 same-sex couples in Australia.
It marked a 39 per cent increase on the 2011 Census when there were 33,714 same-sex couples in Australia.
Mark Latham said same-sex marriage was dominating debate despite their small numbers
However, Australia’s proportion of gay couples, as a percentage of all relationships, increased from 0.7 per cent to just 0.8 per cent.
Mr Latham that despite this, gay marriage appeared to constitute 95 per cent of public debate.
Under his leadership in 2004, the Australian Labor Party unanimously backed then prime minister John Howard’s amendment to the Marriage Act so that matrimony was defined as a union between a man and a woman.
Mr Latham’s Labor successors, including left-wing atheist Julia Gillard, supported the idea of marriage as a heterosexual union until Kevin Rudd became prime minister again in 2013.
Labor under Mark Latham was a party of affiliated trade unions, not same-sex marriage unions
As a media commentator after a career in politics, Mr Latham has courted plenty of controversy as a campaigner against minority-centred left-wing identity politics, cultural Marxism and political correctness.
In late March, he was sacked as a Sky News presenter on the Outsiders program after asking if a high school student was gay.
That Sydney Boys High School student had made a video in support of feminism on International Women’s Day.
Mr Latham’s Sky News co-presenter Ross Cameron, a former Liberal MP, had recently referred to the Sydney Morning Herald as the ‘Sydney Morning Homosexual’ in a speech to the conservative Q Society.
The former Sky presenter has since defected from Labor to the libertarian Liberal Democrats, whose sole Senator David Leyonhjelm supports gay marriage.
He now hosts a weekly online program, Mark Latham’s Outsiders, in partnership with conservative Canadian group Rebel Media.
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