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Maurice Williamson MP: “Our own little gay icon” who voted against civil unions

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Political Report by Barry Soper (NewstalkZB) on “Motormouth Maurice Williamson” who voted against Civil Unions.

It was with a distinct lisp that John Key giggled about “our own little gay icon.”

The State Homie was of course talking about Motormouth Maurice Williamson who after years in the wilderness made an off the cuff speech about gay marriage and sealed his place the the annals of gay history.

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Maurice Williamson

His four minute rant went viral with around a million hits on u Tube and he’s been boasting about how many have been listening to his dulcet tones saying he thought nothing more about it after taking his seat.

The speech itself obviously wasn’t up there with the “I Have A Dream” tub thumping oratory but the occasion itself was pretty special, giving same sex couples the right to marry. That’s why the gay community worldwide have been tuning in and it’s even come to the attention of lesbian telly talk host Ellen DeGeneres who’s invited The Motormouth to come on her show.

She’ll pick up the tab and even give him appearance money, which he’ll donate to a worthy cause just as The Home did when he looked goofy on the David Letterman Show a few years back.

But unlike Key, Williamson didn’t even have to lobby to get on the American show which his boss is happy for him to appear on if he can paint God’s Own as a liberal little country. His Minister, he says, has voted liberal on most issues, he was aware of, and seemed a little surprised when he was told that he actually voted against civil unions!

And given what he said last week it’s hard to see how he opposed the unions eight years ago when he didn’t even bother to take part in the debate.

Last week he told the grizzlies in Parliament’s bear pit that he couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose gay marriage and he railed against the bullies who tried to make him change his mind.

Motormouth Maurice declared that all they were doing in Parliament last week was allowing two people who love each other to have that love recognised by way of marriage.

How that gels with his opposition to civil unions is beyond most liberals.

Maybe the Beehive water tanks, or its air conditioning system, should be checked because some of the inhabitants are clearly suffering from the same affliction – memory fade!

Source: NewstalkZB Political Report. Tuesday 23 April 2013

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/auckland/opinion/political-report-23apr2013

Maurice Williamson MP: ‘Gay Icon’ must answer to a Higher Being

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Dominion Post Letter to Editor (24 April) accompanied by colour photo of ‘Gay Icon’ Maurice Williamson delivering pro-same-sex marriage [Marriage Amendment bill] speech on 17 April 2013. In 2004, he voted against civil unions at the Third Reading of the Civil Union Act, along with John Key and 22 other Nation Party MPs.

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National Pakuranga MP Maurice Williamson’s marriage-amendment bill speech would have been half funny were it not for the assumptions he made as facts. He promised that the Sun would rise tomorrow, we’d not suffer skin diseases or plagues of toads, and that the world would carry on. His knowledge of physics assures us eternal punishment will last 2.1 seconds. His major error is to ignore that he’s answerable to a higher authority. It’s an error shared by the bill’s supporters, including some churches and their leaders. Though he and this Government might act as if they govern the universe, the Bible is clear that they will be called to account for their lives. Pussyfooting around, with platitudes about loving relationships and Jesus’ acceptance of everyone, ignores that, faced with an adulterous woman, he said, “Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more” – the later instruction being the condition placed on the forgiveness. The Church must be aware that after 30 years of “normalising ” homosexuality, the future demand will be to marry same-sex people in church because it would be “discriminatory” not to do so. What then, sheep?

Peter Bradley, Aotea.

24 April 2013. The Dominion Post. P. A10.

Maurice Williamson: A “Gay” icon’s ‘Gangnam-style’ politics and his “contemptible” speech

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The media has reported that the Pakuranga National MP, the Hon. Maurice Williamson, “has become an unlikely gay icon” following his supportive speech at the final reading of the same-sex ‘marriage’ bill. On Wednesday night  [17 April]  Williamson delivered a masterclass in the use of humour as a weapon, introducing New Zealand – and the world – to memorable phrases like “the gay onslaught” and “most enormous big gay rainbow” as he dismantled arguments against the bill, which passed into law by a comfortable margin.”

[According to Wikipedia a gay icon ”is a public figure (historical or current) who is embraced by many within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities”].

A careful analysis of Williamson’s four minutes of grandstanding reveal that this newly discovered “gay icon” never really addressed any of the key arguments levelled against the bill by its opponents in the First and Second Reading Debates, let alone “dismantled” them (see later discussion). The empty rhetoric and poverty of coherent argument was reminiscent of the The Emperor’s New Clothes.

“One of the newspapers in New York claimed I was one of New Zealand’s only openly gay MPs,” Maurice Williamson told a reporter while  laughing, adding:  ”That’s not quite true – my wife wanted to know whether the New York Times knew something more than I did.”

A video of  the energetic speech given by this flamboyant “ego-tripping” “Buffoon”, as journalist Karl du Fresne refers to him in commenting on his “contemptible” speech, has reportedly gone “viral” on You Tube, having been viewed over 580,000 times since Wednesday 17 April. Du Fresne considered it contemptible “because it mocked and ridiculed people who had merely exercised their right to express a view on the bill.” The self-deluded Emperor Williamson’s ‘arguments’ in favour of the bill, when exposed, are found to be nothing more than ridicule and self-deluded lies motivated by naked ambition to curry favour with the LGBT communities.

So what does this media-hyped ‘adulation’ by “gays” over the most enormous big humour of ‘Emperor’ Williamson indicate about the true size of this Member’s exposed ego? [Read more…]