Twelve years ago Corey Bernardi was booted from the Liberal Party for suggesting that acceptance of same sex marriage would lead to acceptance of bestiality.
Back in 2012 he made a speech that, at the time, was described as “repugnant”.
Bernardi told the Senate that the push for same-sex marriage was coming from "radicals" who were determined to overturn the social fabric of Australian society.
He wondered aloud where the campaign to redefine sexual norms would end.
"The next step, quite frankly, is having three people or four people that love each other being able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society - or any other type of relationship.
"There are even some creepy people out there... [who] say it is OK to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals.
"Will that be a future step? In the future will we say, 'These two creatures love each other and maybe they should be able to be joined in a union'.
"I think that these things are the next step."
Bernardi was quickly condemned by Prime Minister Tony Abbott Government, his Liberal colleagues and the Greens.
Then Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull, who would go on to become Prime Minister and hold a plebiscite on gay marriage, slammed Bernardi’s views “extreme” and “hysterical”.
With that in mind, I imagine Corey Bernardi was the only South Australian NOT surprised when news emerged this week of a school where Year 9 students were taught the virtues of bestiality.
Renmark High School (mental note: NEVER send your children to that school) invited an LGBTQ+ activist to address 14-year-old girls on the subject “Respectful Relationships”.
What could possibly go wrong?
Apart from filling kids’ heads with images of bestiality, I mean.
Students say that, as par of the presentation, they were then given an explanation of the acronym LGBTQIA+.
L is for lesbian. G is for gay. B is for bisexual. T is for transgender. Q is for queer. I is for intersex. A is for a asexual …
And the plus?
Well, students said that the guest speaker explained helpfully that the “plus” covered a range of sexual tastes not limited to but including incest and bestiality.
Fourteen year old Emelia told media …
"There was a slide for what the 'plus' means, and they just started randomly saying words that no-one knew, like bestiality.
“They said [the queer community] just accepts all of it, even though … isn't it illegal?
"We're all just sitting there like, 'What the hell? What are we doing here? Why are we learning about animals having sex with humans?'"
Teenager kids are clearly smarter than those from the government funded Headspace organisation who facilitated the groom, er, seminar.
The Year 9 girls were so distributed by the content of the seminar that many made excuses to go to the bathroom and never returned.
What bestiality has to do with “respectful relationships” is anyone’s guess.
I wonder if Headspace think it ‘respectful’ to talk to teenage girls about humans having sex with animals.
I wonder if the principal of Redneck, sorry Renmark High School thinks it ‘respectful’ to hold such a seminar without having notified, let alone sought consent, from parents.
If I pull your daughter aside and have a chat to her about getting it on with Lassie, you’d call the police.
But if an LGBTQ activist does it in a public school, he gets a speaker’s fee.
Go figure.
SA education department chief executive Martin Westwell said the presentation was "unacceptable" and "shouldn't have happened".
You think, Martin?
He told ABC radio …
"The core idea that students should understand sexuality and other sexualities is, I think, really important — but the way [the presenter] went about it was unacceptable.
"The school has clearly made some mistakes.”
Mistakes?
Allowing a degenerate to talk to 14-year-old girls about bestiality is not mistaken. It’s criminal.
And here’s a “core idea” for the education department chief exec … teaching kids to “understand sexuality and other sexualities” is NOT your role.
Maths. English. History. Geography. That’s your lane. Stay in it bozo.
Imagining, with children, where people might love to stick their bits is no business of the education department.
Westwell added …
"There was a few things that went wrong and it ended up with this inappropriate language and a few things being discussed in that session that were just not appropriate."
Martin. You’re making things worse!
Normalising humans having sex with animals is not just inappropriate, it’s sick. It’s perverted. It’s degenerate.
And, as I said, taking 14-year-old girls aside (without the knowledge of their parents) for such discussions is criminal.
The speaker should be charged.
The principal should be charged.
And an education chief exec who minimalizes the whole thing should seek work elsewhere … like Siberia.
Renmark school principal Matt Evans told The Adelaide Advertiser that the school was …
“Taking this matter very seriously”
Gee, thanks Matt.
He said he had “raised concerns” about the speaker.
Raised concerns?
You raise concerns about a crack in the footpath outside your house.
You raise concerns about a leaking tap in your apartment building.
You don’t “raise concerns” about a weirdo pulling kids aside to discuss a bit of man-on-beast action. YOU RAISE HELL!
Principal Evans kindly advised parents that the school would provide “counselling” for students upset by the bestiality lesson.
That’s awfully kind of you Matt, but you’ll understand If absolutely no sane person takes you up on your offer.
What parent in their right mind would ever trust you with their child again?
And I’m not sure it’s the kids who most need counselling. The kids seemed to have handled the whole thing pretty well.
They were sickened.
They were disgusted.
It’s the people from whom the seminar merely “raised concerns” that might need to see a shrink!
"Maths. English. History. Geography. That’s your lane. Stay in it bozo." One of many reasons why we homeschool..
Anyone with a brain knew SSM was the short edge of the wedge, the crap since then is sickening, those poor kids will not be able to get this evil out of their minds for some time, maybe never, The saying I can't unsee it, comes to mind.