A One Nation candidate has branded gay people “patients” who “need to receive treatment” in a repulsive social media post.
Shan Ju Lin, from Queensland, shared a dated news article on her Facebook page on Friday about a couple who had been accused of sexually abusing their foster children.
However the British men who are the subject of the article, George Harasz and Douglas Wirth, were cleared of wrongdoing in 2014 after being arrested way back in 2011.
The Huffington Post reports that in her now-deleted post, Ju Lin wrote, "Abnormal sex behaviour leads to abnormal crime. Gays should be treated as patients, they need to receive treatments."
The remarks have caused outrage and calls for demands of an apology.
Mamamia has contacted Ju Lin for comment.
The Taiwanese-Australian politician - formerly a candidate for Bob Katter's Australia Party - is no stranger to controversy.
She has previously made headlines for disparaging remarks against the LGBTIQ community, including posting a photoshopped image of President Barack Obama wearing makeup and a pride flag earring and pin.
Ju Lin was also blasted for saying "good Asians" would support her Pauline Hanson's policies, despite the party leader's now-famous 1996 comment that Australia was being "swamped by Asians".
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My understanding is that she was responding to child sexual abuse claims.
No, she wasn't. Her beliefs are about gay people, all gays. Regardless of the situation. And if it was about child sexual abuse she would mention Catholic Priests, not gay people.
First Culleton, then Ju Lin, and now apparently Malcolm Roberts has made comments that has offended some One Nation supporters. And the latest is that Hanson was repaid a loan from the party via taxpayer's funds. This little 'party' is self-destructing faster than Palmer United. So delicious! Couldn't happen to a more evil, anti-Australian and deserving party.
I bags November 2018 as the month that One Nation will be dead as a group in Federal politics and Hanson will be the sole remaining One Nation Senator. Anyone want to enter into a pool for when the self-destruction is complete? :D