Take back the word gay? You never lost it Mr Katter

By Richard King
Updated November 9 2012 - 11:03pm, first published August 24 2011 - 2:48am
The brother of independent MP Bob Katter, Carl has come out about his homosexuality after he was distressed about his brother's views against gay marriage.
The brother of independent MP Bob Katter, Carl has come out about his homosexuality after he was distressed about his brother's views against gay marriage.

Of all the stupid and spiteful things said at last week's rally against same-sex marriage, one of the dumbest, and indeed most clarifying, fell from the lips of independent MP Bob Katter. Quoting from Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock – "Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay" – and lamenting how the terminal word is now pressed into service as a synonym for homosexual (as opposed to a perfectly healthy adjective meaning happy or merry or brightly coloured), Katter croaked, "Nobody has the right to take that word off us."

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