Mia Freedman compares gay people to paedophiles

[nero_bolt]

Mia Freedman criticised for comparing gay people to paedophiles

and she did this on NATIONAL TV  

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/mia-freedman-slammed-for-comparing-gays-to-paedophiles-on-th...

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/mia-freedman-apologises-after-comparing-gay-people-to-paedop...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2795409/australian-journalist-slammed-comparing-gays-paedoph...

SO let the  OUTRAGE begin over Mia Freedman and her comments 

[karliandjacko]

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@lightningdance wrote:

Why did she compare Gays to paedophiles? and their prefernces? , why did she make that comparison, it's like saying straight people are like paedophiles. She made the comparison and she should be called out for it.

Calling semantics or taken out of  context  when they try to cover a vile slur on gays is not going to wash but the left will see it differently as usual, will make excuses for it, will gloss it over.

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She did not say gay people are like paedohpiles.  Why don't you listen before getting outraged?

[bluecat*dancing]

I was watching The Project last night and was surprised when she made her analogy. A very poor choice of words.

[cherry*135]

Mia Freedman

I am a longtime and fierce supporter of marriage equality and the LGBTQI community.

7:29 PM - 16 Oct 2014

[azureline**]

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@lightningdance wrote:

Why did she compare Gays to paedophiles? and their prefernces? , why did she make that comparison, it's like saying straight people are like paedophiles. She made the comparison and she should be called out for it.

Calling semantics or taken out of  context  when they try to cover a vile slur on gays is not going to wash but the left will see it differently as usual, will make excuses for it, will gloss it over.

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She didn't compare them, that's the difference.

Not taken out of context, no slur on gays, no need to excuse anything, nothing to do with being left or right.

Listen to it and comprehend it the way it was said.

We all say things, that in hindsight, we wish we had put differently, don't we?

[lightningdance]

She made the "comparison" which is her thinking,, please try to read all the replies before you attack.

[j*oono]

Poorly worded maybe but she obviously didn't mean to compare homosexuals to paedophiles in the way Nero and others are suggesting.

Mia is a very bright and intelligent young woman and has apologised for inadvertently causing offence.

[raptor_rebooted]

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@para-slights wrote:

As an avid supporter of same sex marriage and gay rights I think too it was simply a bad comparison. I also knew what she trying to say, albeit very badly.

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she needed to make an analogy to make

her point.   ppl need to take a step back.

would it make a difference if she used

another example?  what would be more

appropriate?

[karliandjacko]

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@lightningdance wrote:

She made the "comparison" which is her thinking,, please try to read all the replies before you attack.

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I did better. I watched the segment and read the replies. To top it off I did not attack. I leave that to the experts.

[azureline**]

The "comparison" word has been added by the media.......................there was no comparison.

She is not a medical expert, nor an expert in homosexuality or pedophilea, why would anyone expect her to be word perfect? and I can't fathom why anyone thinks it is so important (I had no idea who she was/is)

[raptor_rebooted]

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@azureline** wrote:

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@lightningdance wrote:

Why did she compare Gays to paedophiles? and their prefernces? , why did she make that comparison, it's like saying straight people are like paedophiles. She made the comparison and she should be called out for it.

Calling semantics or taken out of  context  when they try to cover a vile slur on gays is not going to wash but the left will see it differently as usual, will make excuses for it, will gloss it over.

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She didn't compare them, that's the difference.

Not taken out of context, no slur on gays, no need to excuse anything, nothing to do with being left or right.

Listen to it and comprehend it the way it was said.

We all say things, that in hindsight, we wish we had put differently, don't we?

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some more than others ie tony abbott