Wed 5 Mar 2014 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Colin Craig Colin Craig says he has nothing to hide in emails where he’s shared his many thoughts on gay people, after suggestions that’s why he’s backing away from taking legal action over Russel Norman’s dig that he believes ‘a gay man’s place is in the closet’. The latest move in the political wannabe’s crusade against the Green Party co-leader’s comments at the Big Gay Out has been a decision to press ahead only with defamation action over Norman’s statement that Craig thinks women belong in the kitchen. Craig says that’s because going through all his emails and correspondence on his thoughts on gay people would take too long and cost too much. That’s left many wondering, and Norman asking, whether Craig actually doesn’t want the contents of such emails revealed. "One can only speculate what might be in Mr Craig's emails that he doesn't want them to come out in court about his views about gay New Zealanders,” Norman has stated. Craig has responded to the New Zealand Herald with a convoluted statement, ultimately saying splitting the defamation case in two is purely strategic – but that he also has nothing to hide in his personal emails. Many of the emails including his views on gay people would have come during the marriage equality debate, where Craig professed being gay was abnormal and a choice, and that he could be gay if he wanted to.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Wednesday, 5th March 2014 - 10:45am