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Giant Pink Condom - sponsored by Aussie Government?

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The 18-metre giant pink condom placed onto a heritage listed monument in Sydney’s Hyde Park this week, is a distasteful and completely inappropriate stunt, according to the Australian Christian Lobby . Australian Christian Lobby director and outdoor advertising spokesperson Wendy Francis said it was the government had the responsibility to ensure children and their parents were not confronted with adult material. “It is also confronting to the many visitors to the city who are not used to Government funding projects like this,” Ms Francis said. “It is disappointing that the NSW Government is funding ACON, the organisation behind this stunt. The Baird Government should explain to taxpayers why it’s funds are going toward such an inappropriate project. How can it support this? “We recognise the need to combat HIV in our community but this is not the appropriate way to deal with the issue. “My position on this is always that the government and the community have a res

Gay slurs take AIDS fighter by surprise

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A NSW government MP stunned colleagues at an inquiry into gay marriage when she accused the gay community of ''looking down'' on women and deliberately excluding them from efforts to combat AIDS . Catherine Cusack , a Liberal , asked the head of an AIDS-fighting agency whether gay men routinely referred to women as ''breeders'', ''beards'' and '' fag hags ''. Nicolas Parkhill, the chief executive of ACON, a community-based gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health organisation, said he was ''taken aback'' at the line of questioning at a hearing of Parliament's standing committee on social issues on March 15. Ms Cusack went on to question whether ACON was delivering HIV/AIDS programs to the 20 per cent of people who contract the disease every year who are heterosexual. Her first question to Mr Parkhill was: ''In the gay community are women often referred to as breeders?'&

The arrogance of the Homosexual Community

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English: IPSF HIV/AIDS Campaign Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A NSW government MP stunned colleagues at an inquiry into gay marriage when she accused the gay community of ''looking down'' on women and deliberately excluding them from efforts to combat AIDS . Catherine Cusack , a Liberal, asked the head of an AIDS-fighting agency whether gay men routinely referred to women as ''breeders'', ''beards'' and '' fag hags ''. Nicolas Parkhill, the chief executive of ACON, a community-based gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender health organisation, said he was ''taken aback'' at the line of questioning at a hearing of Parliament's standing committee on social issues on March 15. Ms Cusack went on to question whether ACON was delivering HIV/AIDS programs to the 20 per cent of people who contract the disease every year who are heterosexual. Advertisement Her first question to Mr Parkhill was: '&#