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ACL labelled homophobes by Premier Bligh

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Image via Wikipedia Without passing or implying judgement on homosexuals , ACL has been the subject of a vitriolic backlash in the online and social media this week. Homophobe ,  bigot  and  f***ing idiot  are some of the labels and titles of Facebook pages set up against ACL and our Queensland Director, 50-year-old grandmother Wendy Francis. Over-sensitive homosexual activists and their uncivil friends on Twitter and Facebook are quick to jump from a great height with moral huffiness and personal abuse on anyone they perceive to step on their toes. Mainstream media quickly followed their lead and before we knew it politicians such as the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh joined in, also labelling us ‘homophobes’. So what led to us gaining this pariah status in the land of the fair go? ACL is a contributor to the long-running debate about the sexualisation of children and the well-acknowledged failures of the Advertising Standards Board and the classification system to protect childr