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…]