Miranda Devine isn’t a bigot. She can speak fluent Japanese! Miranda Devine isn’t a bigot, she just outspokenly prefers clean living, white, heterosexual, middle-class conservatives more so than any other type of person. Just like the way some serial killers prefer to target brunette females in their early-thirties. Or the way Roundup Weed Killer only poisons plants but does not cause any harm to humans or soil.
…Actually, much like Roundup Weed Killer, the reason Devine is a leading columnist with The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun (their words, not mine) is her extraordinary ability to expel poison onto the target of her choosing through inflammatory rhetoric. Yesterday, The Daily Telegraph published her column titled “Pregnancy of Penny Wong’s female partner no cause for mass celebration” in which she uses the pregnancy of senator Peggy Wong with lesbian partner Sophie Allouache to illustrate the point that the London Riots are a “manifestation of a fatherless society”. Basically same-sex partnerships are in some way responsible for causing riots.
If you think I am exaggerating you can read the… I guess you would say crux of her lunatic assholery argument below that can be found somewhere in the middle of extensive incoherent ramblings. Anyway, here it is…
Maybe same-sex marriage is as inevitable as its energetic proponents say, but it would be a pyrrhic victory [i.e. a victory where you lose so much it isn’t even worth it to begin with] if it were achieved through intimidation of opponents. As a Catholic, I believe the push for same-sex marriage is not about enhancing the lives of gay couples. In countries where it has been legalised, there has been no rush to the altar.
The issue is largely symbolic. It is simply a political tool to undermine the last bastion of bourgeois morality – the traditional nuclear family.
You only had to see the burning streets of London last week to see the manifestation of a fatherless society. The collapse of family life in Britain has been laid bare, reported to have the highest proportion of single mothers in Europe and nearly half of all children suffering family breakdown by the age of 16.
Fatherless families in underprivileged boroughs of London are the norm.
Hm.
This bizarre diatribe has rubbed a lot of non-Fascist people up the wrong way, including triple j broadcaster, comedian and “professional homosexual” Tom Ballard. In the video below watch and listen to Tom’s rebuttal titled Miranda Devine: What The Fuck Are You Talking About?
Miranda Devine isn’t going anywhere. That’s because staunchly conservative types with strong outspoken opinions are perfect fodder for columns. Great work then, Tom Ballard, for representing (one would hope) a majority of your generation with a fantastic and measured response to a preposterous, poisonous pile of poo.
