Bob Katter’s Australia Party are running a homophobic television advertisement to try and convince Queenslanders to vote for them instead of the alternative conservative political party, the Liberal National Party (LNP) in the forthcoming state election. Given this is an ad pitting conservative against conservative there’s a big effort being made to say that the alternative conservative choice, the LNP, is too close to the progressive environmental party, the Greens. And given that the leader of the Greens is a happily partnered, gay man, well, all the better for their gay conspiracy.
It is a very blunt ad, take a look.
Here are some interesting things to notice in their advertisement:
- The leader of the LNP, Campbell Newman is shown working with laundry. Lady work.
- Loving heterosexual family juxtaposed against loving homosexual family for maximum contest. There can only be one winner.
- The loving heterosexual family is smiling, the loving homosexual family is not. What’s the problem, sin getting you down?
- The loving heterosexual family is an extended family, the loving homosexual family is not. They’re not one of us.
- The loving heterosexual family are clothed, the loving homosexual family is not. Gay family time is nekkid time.
- The loving homosexual family are two men with what appears to be a signficant age difference. Paedophile alert.
- Finally, notice that the loving homosexual family requires pixellating. Why is that?
If you freeze-frame the ad the loving homosexual family appears to have what might be a baby, but they have been pixellated so strongly that it is really hard to say what they’re holding there exactly. Could be gay, kinky stuff that is so bad it must be censored or could be their adorable, much-loved baby?
Perhaps Bob Katter’s Australia Party feels it is unfair to show the baby’s face in an ad running down his/her family, but then how fair is it to run down the baby’s family in the first place?
Also, the pixellating is used even when nothing like a baby can be seen. Is the idea of men’s bodies being close in affection kinda obscene?
Because…
Image: Bob Katter in the middle showing us what appropriate affection between men looks like.
Cross-posted at Hoyden About Town. Thank you to Mark and Kim of Larvatus Prodeo for the link to the ad.
Intolerance is rampant, and I see its not just a problem here in the US.
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ugh those poor guys representing the gay family. ugh ugh not even interested in watching ad, makes me feel awful already
The debate about the ad: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2012/s3450907.htm
It’s so much worse watching it than just reading about it, isn’t it?
It doesn’t even make any sense. I thought LNP were against gay marriage anyway? Ignorance and homophobia usually go together.
You know, I think they’re just pixelating their naked torsoes. As in, their nudity. The stuff you see at the beach. I’m getting it mostly from the kissing shot and haven’t watched the clip (not sure I can bare to).
It’s just peculiar!! It’s seems so blunt and manipulative – surely the backlash will be widespread?
Great post!
Here’s a link to the original photos that they censored: http://www.123rf.com/photo_5978003_portrait-of-a-homosexual-pregnant-couple-expecting-a-baby.html
And my response to the ad: http://nathanstoneham.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/katters-homophobic-ad/
Thanks Nathan for the extra information on the original photos and for the link to your post on the issue. Loved it.
So are they so crap they took any old stock photo they could find and pixellated it, or did they deliberately look for something to pixellate to make it look worse? Incompetence or malice?
Conservative pundit, Andrew Bolt having a well deserved go at Katter: http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/katter_disgraces_himself/
And this is one of the men our last election hinged upon?? Yep, our political system is fine. Totally, totally, non-problematic in any way.
Wow this is very interesting! It just no longer seems right to me to concern politics with what goes on in the bedroom… I wonder when they’ll listen…
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