Kevin Rudd’s sister has refused to apologise for describing a movement promoting same-sex marriage as a “global gay Gestapo”.
Loree Rudd, a divorced 60-year-old nurse who lives at Nambour, said she expected people would be offended by her opposition to gay marriage.
Homosexual lobby groups and the Anti-Defamation Commission have called for the Foreign Minister’s sister to apologise for her “anti-gay remark”.
“Some of the vitriol that was aimed at my comments was exactly what I was talking about,” Ms Rudd said.
“A lot of people, in fact thousands of people, who live very quietly are probably happy to have a discussion about issues like this (gay marriage).
“But why would they, because they get shot down in flames and called all kinds of dreadful names because they gave their opinion.
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