Who would have thought daytime television could get so heated?

The notorious Christian Democratic Party candidate for the state seat of Sydney, Peter Madden joined National Convenor of Australian Marriage Equality and Same Same 25 recipient Alex Greenwich on Kerry-Anne’s programme this morning to discuss the social effects of legalising gay marriage.

Greenwich’s opening statement humanised the cause. “Many Australians grow up and we’re told to aspire to this great institution called marriage… and I guess I hope to be able to get married to the person I love in the country that I love.”

By not legalising gay marriage, society is perpetuating a form of discrimination, he added. “I don’t have a different driver’s licence because I am gay, but I have a different form of relationship recognition… [Gay marriage] will provide loving Australian couples with unquestionable legal protection which we currently don’t have.”

Not one to disappoint, a true-to-form Madden then spilled his hate-filled diatribe in the name of the Lord and under the guise of protecting children everywhere. Referring to the heterosexual population of Australia, he nonsensically stated “98% of the country, if indeed the legislation is passed, will actually lose their rights to determine what their children are taught in school.

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