Australia: LGBTQ agenda revealed
WHAT is happening to this country?
There isn’t anything more Australian than two people sitting down, sharing a drink and having a yarn. Our core culture is built around this activity.
Our diversity and inclusiveness as a nation — by far one of the friendliest and most tolerant on the planet — has long been lubricated by people sitting down and sharing a drink together as they explore their differences, sort out their differences or just accept their differences.
And now we have this travesty. A beer boycott by inner-city hipsters who think they are right-on but actually are just outing themselves as ignorant twats.
If you haven’t heard, a bunch of pubs and bars in the “progressive” parts of Sydney and Melbourne have banned beers made by Coopers after the Bible Society produced a video featuring a debate about gay marriage.
Released last week, “Keeping it Light” features Liberal MP and former human rights commissioner Tim Wilson and Andrew Hastie having a “light discussion” on the “heavy topic” of gay marriage over a Coopers beer.
A still from the video produced by the Bible Society.Source:Supplied
Wilson, who supports gay marriage, and Hastie, a conservative Christian in favour of traditional marriage, are each asked to state their case and then say which element of the other’s argument they found most convincing.
Coopers has released a statement saying it didn’t have any involvement in the video featuring its beer.
The statement released by Coopers. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook
The video shows two perfectly respectable people offering two perfectly respectable but differing points of view.
The aim of the video is to foster rational and measured discussion about an important issue. What it’s done is flush some bigots out of their beard-grooming salons.
Bigots are people who are intolerant of other people’s points of view. The majority of Australia’s population can’t cop bigots.
The actions of the pubs and bars who have boycotted Coopers beer because of its appearance in the video are disgraceful. It is bigotry, pure and simple.
These venues are attacking an innocent party. They are having a hissy fit because an alternate view to the one they hold was given equal weight, and are punishing a neutral bystander to the exchange.
A cynic might say it is a marketing exercise to ingratiate themselves to their customer base. If that’s the case, shame on them.
What they should do is invite Tim Wilson and Andrew Hastie to their venues and use the occasion as a vehicle to promote inclusion, tolerance and recognition, the very things the gay marriage lobby are pleading for, and what the Bible society was hoping to foster. A society that accommodates opposing points of view is an admirable one.
Coopers will survive this. It is one of Australia’s great businesses and is a good corporate citizen. People love the company’s beer, and it is the largest Australian-owned brewery.
When Thomas Cooper first started making beer in Adelaide in 1862, Australia was a young country full of promise.
The old codger had a beard that would make him feel right at home in the pubs and bars banning his beers. If he knew how prejudiced they were he wouldn’t be seen dead in them.
Beer has helped Australia recover from a dozen wars. Beer has helped people from dozens of nations assimilate into a country far from their original homes. Beer has been witness to our country’s greatest triumphs.
To ban a particular beer for no reason at all is bloody well un-Australian.
Rory Gibson is a Brisbane writer whose regular beer columns appear in the Courier Mail.
