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Threatened by gays : Comments
By Shane Ogden, published 16/3/2010Tony Abbott has fessed up and admitted, honestly, that he feels threatened by homosexuals.
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How do you reckon the homosexual advance defence (HAD) plays out in this? http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10175
When political leaders claim to feel "threatened" by homosexuals, is this an endorsement of unequal punishment for crimes against homosexuals?
In his 2004 paper http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v11n1/golder111.html UNSW academic Ben Golder argues that "the male heterosexual body is inscribed by and within the narratives of the law in a particular way – as a bounded and impermeable unit – and that this inscription underpins the legal violence of the HAD." So Tony Abbott is not just expressing a personal opinion, he's also referencing a body of law that licences heterosexual men to commit violent acts upon homosexuals if they feel "threatened". To my knowledge, the recommendations of the 1998 NSW Attorney General's Working Party investigating the homosexual advance defence http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/clrd/ll_clrd.nsf/vwPrint1/CLRD_had have not been implemented, so in NSW at least, this defence is still available.