Newstalk ZB host Kerre Woodham has defended the Civil Union Bill, saying "prejudice, intolerance and an unhealthy prurient fascination with sodomy are more dangerous than people who just happen to love each other". An inordinate number of callers to the talk radio network this week have raised their opposition to the Civil Union Bill by giving extended treatises on anal sex between men, using choice terms like "queers", "sodomites", and "fairies" to back up their arguments. While Woodham has cut these type of calls short, other hosts on the station have allowed uninterrupted, unchallenged ranting. "If people put the same energy into stopping violence in the home as they are into the fight against the Civil Union Bill, the world would be an infinitely better place," Woodham wrote in today's Sunday Herald, also taking a swing at MPs who pulled their support for the Bill at the last minute. "To know in your heart of hearts that gays are entitled to the same civil rights as everyone else, and yet then vote against the Civil Union Bill for contorted political reasons, is downright ugly."
Credit: GayNZ.com News Staff
First published: Sunday, 5th December 2004 - 12:00pm