Last month, she mocked lesbian parents. This month, Dominion Post Rosemary McLeod is attacking the gays that don't have children. In a 7 July column entitled Meddling with gay abandon, McLeod observes that “people resent a Government they see as being heavily influenced by gays making laws about parenting" because "there ARE ways in which gay people and straight people differ. The most blindingly obvious of these is in having children..." McLeod concludes from a recent survey that showed public opposition to the anti-smacking proposals, that "we are becoming weary...of having self-styled experts moralising about how families treat their children – the very experts who so resent anyone else moralising about other sorts of conduct." Gay MP Tim Barnett, whom McLeod describes as "both gay and childless" came under fire for being the architect of prostitution law reform, and for saying it shouldn't be automatically assumed that children of working prostitutes are in danger. "He is also not a woman, and to my mind his advocacy of that position was mischievous," McLeod writes. If Barnett had children, McLeod says, he wouldn't hold the opinions he does. "He'd know a lot more about the needs and rights of children, something his Government is so hot on when it comes to spanking their bottoms. And he would understand how powerfully protective normal parents feel toward their children, whom they do not knowingly expose to danger."