Australian Christian lobby chief’s anti-gay tweet sparks outrage
April 25th, 2011 - 4:14 pm ICT by ANICanberra, Apr 25 (ANI): Australian Christian lobby chief Jim Wallace has sparked off an online outrage by saying on Twitter that the country’s soldiers did not fight and die for gays and Muslims.
Wallace, who is well known for his hostile views on gay marriage, made the comments on Anzac Day, the day Australia remembers soldiers who died during First World War.
“Just hope that as we remember Servicemen and women today we remember the Australia they fought for - wasn’t gay marriage and Islamic,” news.com.au quoted Wallace, as saying.
The retired brigadier’s comment invited immediate condemnation.
“Jim Wallace of the Australian Christian Lobby should be ashamed, using Anzac Day to push a homophobic and racist agenda,” wrote a Twitter user in response to Wallace’s remarks.
Wallace apologized about an hour after he posted the tweet. “Ok, you are right, my apologies this was the wrong context to raise these issues. Anzac mean too much to me to demean this day, not intended,” he wrote. (ANI)
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