Malcolm Turnbull has stuck by his party’s policy of holding a gay marriage plebiscite after 20 corporate chief executives personally signed a letter in an attempt to force him to legislate same-sex marriage “in the near term “…

‘Politically correct nonsense’

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has urged CEOs to stop shoving “politically correct nonsense down our throats” and focus on running their businesses, after 20 heads of some of the nation’s biggest companies urged Malcolm Turnbull to legislate for same-sex marriage.

The letter comes after LGBTI activists boycotted a Coopers brewery-sponsored Bible Society video which depicted gay Liberal MP Tim Wilson and his friend and colleague Andrew Hastie discussing their opposing views on same-sex marriage.

Mr Dutton described the move as “bizarre” and an “outrage”.

“The CEOs would be better off out there arguing at the moment for the economy to be run a particular way or for tax to be reformed in this way so that people grow their businesses and grow jobs as opposed to taking on these moral causes,” he told 2GB.

“If they want to run for politics, well resign from their position and stick their hand up at the next election but don’t jam your politically correct views down our throats.

“Some of these CEOs who are doing the wrong thing, who are part of campaigns to criticise companies like Coopers and others frankly need to be publicly shamed and I think people frankly are getting sick of all this politically correct nonsense.”

Mr Dutton gave the example of Telstra, saying he had experienced problems with his home phone last week.

“I lead a fairly busy life and the thought of hanging on the phone for an hour to some person in the Philippines and still getting nowhere at the end of the call drives me crazy.

“Now here’s a suggestion for Telstra: instead of getting caught up and spending your investors’ money, your shareholders’ money on all these political causes, what about tidying up your own back yard first and providing a proper standard of care and service to your customers?

“That actually would be a good starting point. Once all that’s done then if you’ve got time on your hands you can concentrate on all these fringe issues.”

“If people want to enter politics then do that, but don’t do it from the office overlooking the harbour on your multi-million dollar fees each year.

“It’s high time these people pulled back from these moralistic stances and we’d be a better society without them.”

The 20 include chief executives Andrew Vesey, of AGL Energy; Shayne Elliot,ANZ; Ann Sherry, Carnival; Ian Narev, CBA; Steve McCann, Lendlease; Luke Sayers, PricewaterhouseCoopers ; Alan Joyce, Qantas; Tracey Fellows, REA Group; Richard Goyder, Wesfarmers as well as SBS, Telstra, Apple, IBM,Lendlease, the Business Council of Australia, Deloitte, KPMG, Amex, Holdenand Wesfarmers chiefs are listed on the letter asking Mr Turnbull to abandon the plebiscite policy, other companies have refus¬ed to back the push. Why should biblical Christians support them? Ceo’s such as Alan Joyce(Qantas) is a militant homosexual pushing the SSM agenda through his business. Who recently repainted planes in rainbow colours prior to the Sydney Mardi Gras?

Beer, Bibles, Bullies and Bigotry

Bill Muelenberg Culture Watch

We saw another prime example of this when a brief video on homosexual marriage was put out by the Bible Society of Australia in conjunction with Coopers Brewery. A very civil debate featuring two Liberals (one a homosexual in favour of it, one a heterosexual against it) was a light-hearted and friendly bit of discussion about this key issue.

But the homosexual lobby – as always – went absolutely ballistic, bombarding Coopers with abuse and hate mail, demanding that they repent immediately and totally withdraw from the entire event. And sure enough, the cowards at Coopers did just that, putting out a slobbering act of confession and contrition, reminiscent of the early Communist show trials.

Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said this:

“The bizarre reaction to the video, including a boycott of Coopers Brewery because my parliamentary colleagues happened to be drinking their beer in the video, is just the latest demonstration that the political correctness brigade is out of control.

While I am disappointed Coopers pathetically backed down in their support for the Bible Society and immediately paid go-away money and joined Australians for Marriage Equality, there are clearly bigger issues at play here — this dogmatic approach from the left of Australian politics who feel that they can shout down and destroy anyone with whom they disagree.

The fact that an intolerant and outspoken minority continue to bully and harass hardworking and decent people and businesses is concerning. While of course these left-wing social justice warriors are entitled to free speech people shouldn’t be afraid of calling out their hypocrisy and demanding a more civil and respectful discourse.”

Now to him who is able to establish you by my Gospel, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ…that all nations might believe and obey him – Romans 16:25