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February 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A Labor candidate is standing behind homophobic comments that forced him to quit ahead of the March 24 Queensland election.
Peter Watson, 19, who was the candidate for the rural seat of Southern Downs, says he initially denied the allegations because he did not know what was being levelled at him.
But he now admits making the comments online, four or five years ago.
“I said that homosexuality and paedophilia were linked because there’s been some research done … and it’s been published by the Catholic Church, that suggests that 30 per cent of male paedophiles are homosexual,” he told ABC radio on Tuesday.
“Well I made the comments, so I do agree with it.
“These comments I made about homosexuals were made when I was like 14, 15 years old, so we’re talking about four, five years ago.
“(But) I do agree in some sense.”
Labor’s state secretary Anthony Chisholm, who released a statement on Monday saying Mr Watson denied the allegations, says he will seek to have him expelled from the party.
“Well that’s what he told our officials at the time, clearly he has had a change of mind on those matters,” Mr Chisholm told ABC radio.
“Clearly the decision to ask for his resignation was the correct one.”
Mr Chisholm says Mr Watson’s views have no place in the Australian Labor Party.
The Courier-Mail says Mr Watson used an alias to make some of the posts while others were made under his real name.
Among posts under the name “Peter Watson”, homosexuals were labelled “degenerates” who should be “wiped out”, the paper reports.
Others claimed “homosexuality and paedophilia go hand in hand with each other,”.
There were posts under the name “Peter Watson aka Stalinist”, where the contributor insisted he had masqueraded as a neo-Nazi to “get information out of the enemy”.
Southern Downs is a rural electorate stretching along the NSW border and to the south and southwest of Toowoomba.
Major centres include Warwick, Allora, Stanthorpe, Millmerran, Inglewood and Goondiwindi.
Labor used Mr Watson’s likely expulsion from the party to again demand Liberal National Party leader Campbell Newman dump Cairns candidate Gavin King over his views on rape.
In a 2008 article, Mr King suggested drunk women were partly responsible if they were sexually assaulted.
Earlier this year, the Labor party distributed a flyer in the Brisbane seat Mr Newman is trying to win, angering the LNP leader who said it implied he condoned rape.
Mr Newman has repeatedly said Mr King has apologised over the 2008 article, and knows his comments were wrong and won’t be dumped.
Minister for Women Karen Struthers said Mr Newman must use his visit to Cairns on Tuesday to act against Mr King’s “dangerous and controversial history”.
“Campbell Newman’s inaction stands in stark contrast to the ALP quick action to disendorse former Southern Downs candidate Peter Watson,” she said in a statement.
“Mr Watson will be expelled from the ALP for his anti-gay comments. We will stamp out these views. There is no place for them.
“If Campbell Newman doesn’t have the courage to sack Gavin King, I urge all LNP candidates to do the right thing and call for Mr King to be dumped.”
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