The Liberals Are Preferencing An Independent Who Thinks The Word “Lesbian” Is A Tool Of Satan
She's also a believer in gay conversion.
The Liberal Party will direct its preferences in the Victorian election to an Independent candidate who promotes gay conversion therapy and believes words like “transgender” and “lesbian” are the tools of the devil.
Liberal Party how-to-vote cards in the Buninyong District in the state’s west will instruct voters to place Independent candidate Dianne Colbert second on the ballot. Colbert was previously a counsellor for Mental Health First Aid Australia but had her accreditation suspended last year after she posted videos on her YouTube channel about people using prayer to “recover” from homosexuality.
In posts on her Facebook page Colbert has called gender fluidity “a dangerous and unscientific social construct”, decried the result of the same-sex marriage postal survey, warned about the dangers of “promiscuous sex”, and claimed that “Satan seeks to steal your identity” using words like ” homosexual” and “lesbian”.
“Maybe he has whispered transgender in your ear,” she wrote. “Don’t listen to him”.
She also asked her follows to share stories about people “whose lives have been restored from homosexuality and transgenderism”.
Her campaign flyers for the Victorian election criticise the Safe Schools program and urge voters to “stop harming our children”.
Andrew Kilmartin, the Liberal candidate for Buninyong, told the ABC that he does not share Colbert’s views and that he has no say over where the party directs its preferences.
“It’s all organised by the state director,” he said.
Victorian Liberal leader Matthew Guy would not directly address the decision to preference Colbert, saying instead that “you make decisions with the limited information you know about people; you need to lodge a preference form”. Which isn’t super encouraging, to be honest.
The Victorian election will be held this Saturday, November 24.
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h/t ABC, The Courier