‘If you don’t know, vote no’: Gay, conservative professor joins the push to oppose same-sex marriage

Sep 17, 2017 by Jill

by Stephen Johnson, Mailonline:

A gay, conservative professor has joined the push to oppose same-sex marriage.

Professor David Flint, who is openly gay but discreet about his personal life, quoted another gay conservative, Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones, to argue why voters should vote ‘no’ in the federal government’s postal vote survey.

‘As Alan Jones said in 1999, if you don’t know, vote no,’ the 79-year-old academic told Sky News Australia.

‘We just don’t know what’s going to happen.’

Jones, a perennial top-rating broadcaster on radio 2GB, is actually in favour of gay marriage but shares former Liberal prime minister John Howard’s concerns about religious freedom.

‘I’ll be voting ‘Yes’ for same sex marriage. But John Howard is right. We must protect parental & religious freedoms and freedom of speech,’ Jones tweeted last week.

Read here