SOLO-NZ Press Release: BSA Gets One Right

February 23, 2010

The Broadcasting Standards Authority, which should be abolished, has nonetheless made the right decision in refusing to censure TVNZ's Paul Henry for saying homosexuality is unnatural, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo, himself a former TVNZ presenter ... and shameless homosexual.

Henry, co-host of TV One's Breakfast show, made the comments during a discussion about a proposed law change to allow homosexual couples to adopt children. He said he was "iffy" about the law change and that homosexuality was "unnatural."

"Paul is quite wrong, of course," says Perigo. "Homosexuality is rife throughout nature, as he himself acknowledged in subsequent comments saying in effect that birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it ... (a song by Cole Porter, yet another homosexual). Paul, as a father, ought to be 'iffy' about his own giggly girliness if he's going to be 'iffy' about such things at all.

"But if we ever get to the stage where Paul, or anyone else, is banned from saying homosexuality, or anything else, is unnatural, then we are just another Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or Iran in reverse. The ghastly tyranny of Political Correctness reigns, just when we thought, with Helen Clark's demise, that it didn't.

"The state broadcaster TVNZ, which itself ought to be abolished, is nonetheless to be congratulated on standing by Henry in the face of the firestorm of abuse that has engulfed him, especially after his entirely justified comments about the very ordinary Susan Boyle. Paul Holmes was very nearly crucified for his remarks about the 'cheeky darkie.' Let not Paul Henry be destroyed by a pink swastika where a black one failed," Perigo concludes.

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