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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda James Packer donated $250,000 to Bob Katter’s new political party because he admires the man, but the billionaire businessman has spoken out against an election ad that is widely seen as homophobic.
The fledgling Katter’s Australian Party has sparked an uproar with a TV ad that attacks Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman for his personal support of gay marriage.
The ad shows a shirtless male couple with blurred torsos, with their arms around each other.
Equal rights campaigner Phil Browne has lodged a complaint over the ad with the Advertising Standards Bureau.
Mr Packer said he donated to the party because he admired Mr Katter, but he could not support the ad, which has sparked a complaint from equal rights campaigner Phil Browne to the Advertising Standards Bureau.
“I admire his passion for this great country and that’s why I donated to him,” Mr Packer said in a statement to The Australian.
“But I don’t agree with all his policies and views, and I certainly don’t support this advertisement or his attack on Campbell Newman.”
Mr Katter has received hate mail over the ad and been offered police protection, which he declined, the party’s Queensland leader Aidan McLindon says.
“They (police officers) rang up checking in on his safety given the hate mail that we’ve received,” Mr McLindon told AAP
“Some of the abuse and the emails we’ve received are completely un-Australian.
“We make no apology that our position is that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
He said the ad was not an attack on anyone’s sexuality but highlighted Mr Newman’s inconsistency on the issue.
The LNP’s official line is to oppose Queensland Labor’s same-sex civil union laws. Mr Newman has said he would look at repealing the laws if the LNP won government on March 24.
Mr McLindon says he finds it bewildering that some people think the ad is offensive.
“The statement by Mr Newman, that he supports gay marriage, I thought they wouldn’t have found that offensive, or the picture of the two men,” he said.
Mr Newman has branded the ads as “homophobic”, “negative” and “nasty”.
Mr Katter’s half-brother Carl Katter has added his voice to the furore, saying the ad was a “new low” and “desperate”.
Earlier on Tuesday, Labor and the LNP tried to link the ad to a homophobic and racist graffiti attack on the electorate office of Mulgrave MP, Indigenous Affairs Minister Curtis Pitt.
Mr Pitt arrived at his office earlier in the day to find the words “Communist Gay, Communist Nigger loving party” scrawled on the front windows.
“Whether it’s graffiti or shameful acts by Bob Katter, this sort of bigotry and intolerance has no place in Australian politics,” Mr Pitt told AAP.
Mr Newman said it was possible the ad had sparked the incident.
Premier Anna Bligh said the attack followed “hot on the heels on a pretty offensive ad by the Katter party”.
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