Liberal MP links Safe Schools with paedophilia

By WIll Gray

Queensland backbencher George Christensen has claimed the Safe Schools program is grooming kids to become victims of sexual predators.

Yep. A guy who managed to get elected to Federal Parliament thinks an anti-bullying program is helping out paedophiles.

Christensen also claimed the program promotes sex clubs, sex shops and pornographic content.

“This material is putting children at risk of being sexualised at an early age,” he said. 

“If a man exposed a child to these websites, sex clubs, sex shops and online communities on the internet we would call this a paedophile grooming a victim.”

The comments have prompted a massive backlash, and Greens Senator Robert Simms urged Malcolm Turnbull to pull his backbench into line.

“The Prime Minister should condemn this homophobia, rather than indulging it through this senseless investigation into Safe Schools,” he said. “I’m concerned this kind of hateful debate is a taste of things to come if we have a plebiscite on marriage equality.”