Poster Stunt shows homosexual marriage activists can't be trusted

Last week, a same-sex marriage supporter claimed he’d found a single nasty “Stop the Fags” poster in an alley in Melbourne’s Chinatown.

Activists and the media were ecstatic. Finally they could prove their opponents were just as nasty. But the frenzied untruths that followed — with photographic evidence even faked by Channel 10 — only confirm the gay-marriage lobby and their media mates are the real hatemongers.

In fact, the only thing that could lose them the postal vote is their bullying — the lies, abuse, threats, violence and misuse of power that’s marked their “yes” campaign.

I suspect the activists knew that already. That’s why they reacted so eagerly when supporter Dan Leach-McGill tweeted a picture of a poster he said had been put up in Heffernan Lane.

This was a godsend for their cause. At last, these bullies could play the victim.

The poster was indeed harsh, showing a sad child menaced by two adults holding rainbow-coloured belts.

“Stop the Fags”, it shouted, repeating survey data claiming children of same-sex parents were more likely to suffer depression. Leach-McGill added in anger: “Spotted in Melbourne — Heffernan Lane. How is this for a unity moment?”

His tweet went viral last Monday, and not just with gay outlets or on social media. The ABC, Fairfax, Junkee, Huffington Post and FM radio stations all went crazy.

Media outlets like Channel 9 and news.com.au agreed there were more such posters around Melbourne. As the Australian Women’s Weekly put it: “Melbourne streets plastered with disgustingly homophobic posters ahead of plebiscite.”

But Channel 10 had a problem: it could not find even one.

That should have been a big warning, but the station still claimed there were posters all around the city, and to demonstrate, it showed a picture of a bus stop with a huge advertising billboard featuring the “Stop the Fags” poster.

But it was a con. There were NO posters at all. It didn't happen! But that didn't stop the story.