Self-appointed "Bishop" Brian Tamaki has become the latest to hit out at the AIDS Foundation's takataapui Gay Warriors For Safe Sex campaign, alleging that homosexuality was so unacceptable in pre-colonial times that gays were lynched. "I think that you'll find, especially, particularly for Maori, that the whole, the whole gay lifestyle is, is, is generally rejected or not accepted," he told host John Banks on Radio Pacific last week. "In fact, in the old days they took them aside and killed them." Tamaki went on to attack the AIDS Foundation as a gay community front organisation after Banks suggested they were attempting to save people from becoming HIV-positive. "Oh don't be fooled by that," he answered. "I'm very much aware of their front and what they've done." Former Auckland mayor Banks, who courted the gay vote at the last election, thanked Tamaki for the "work and leadership" he provides, thanked God for the Destiny Church, and joined Tamaki in slamming the AIDS Foundation. "Why wouldn't the AIDS Foundation encourage them [Maori] to join Destiny Church, find god and behave themselves?" he asked. "Why don't we have some education around how dangerous it is to, to provide each other with behaviour, sodomy behaviour and, and how it can kill you?" Tamaki's appearance on Banks' low-rating breakfast show is one of his first appearances since Destiny's dismal showing in last year's general election, where the church's political party scored a mere 0.6% of the vote, despite a well-funded campaign. Meanwhile, Banks has not ruled out contesting the next Auckland mayoral election. Since he was defeated by cereal magnate Dick Hubbard in 2003, Banks has taken regular swipes at gays on his Radio Pacific show. Last July, he engaged in an extended rant about "filthy" and "pervert" homosexuals on his programme that went on for nearly an hour. He also invoked the Koran to suggest that sexual acts between men should be punishable by death.