LYLE Shelton, who runs the Family First political party, did what any decent Australian would do and posted warnings on social media to parents with young children to beware of the drag queen brigade and their obscene sexual activities that they want us to see as “normal” or “entertaining”.
That was seven years ago, and drag queens Dwayne Hill and Johnny Valkyrie dragged Shelton to the Queensland Human Rights Commission to have him charged under so-called anti-vilification laws that became part of Queensland’s Anti-discrimination Acts.
“After 6 years in court, my drag queen free speech case just took a shocking turn,” Shelton said in a social media post this week. “An appeal tribunal overturned my earlier win and now I’m heading back to court for year seven.
“”The drag queens and their taxpayer-funded lawyers have pursued me relentlessly. This latest ruling does not make any findings against me, but make no mistake, the drag queens and the political activists backing their actions want me punished and silenced.
“But the punishment seems to be the process itself. This case isn’t just about me, it’s about whether Australians can still speak freely about child protection and contested cultural issues without years of litigation.”
Shelton says he has no option but to go back to court because his earlier win for free speech meant free speech wins for other similar cases because his win set a precedent.
He says the bizarre saga began when he published several blog posts critiquing drag queen story time held at a Brisbane City Council library back in 2020.
“My concern has always been child protection. I do not believe children should be exposed to early sexualisation through sexualised role models and they should not be exposed to role models who promote gender-fluid ideology.
“I published confronting and unsavoury material from the drag queens’ own public social media accounts (see inset). Some of this promotes the life-long consequences of gender-fluid ideology. Some of it simply reflects the world view of LGBTQ+ drag queens.
“I wrote about the suitability of proponents of harmful gender ideology and radical LGBTQ+ radical sexual expressionism being appropriate role models for children.
“These blog posts became the subject of complaints which continued to entangle me in this long-running struggle for freedom of speech”
Shelton says Australia’s regime of anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws known as “hate speech laws” are deeply flawed. “They make the process the punishment. That in turn has a chilling effect on important public discussion.
“These laws cause good people to walk past things they know they should speak up about for fear of litigation.”
Cairns News notes that this latest action against Shelton is happening under an allegedly conservative Liberal-National Party government led by an allegedly Catholic premier who has not lifted a finger against this abusive, Marxist-inspired legislation.
We also note that the drag queen library readings that prompted Shelton’s investigations happened under a Liberal Party-dominated Brisbane City Council. Labor councillors, of course, backed them all the way.
According to the diabolical Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), vilification happens when a person does a public act that incites hatred, serious contempt, or severe ridicule of a person or group because of their race, religion, sexuality, sex characteristics and gender identity.
Note the last three categories: These are so vague as to allow any LGBTQ+ gender activist to drag any critic of their activities to a government tribunal and then a court.
This is a clever way to target conservative Christians like Shelton who may air public objections to the ideology that basically seeks to overthrow western Christian civilization.
“Incite means to urge on or promote. It is not necessary to show that anyone was actually incited,” states the Queensland Human Rights Commission in a self-contradicting explanation of the term “incite” in the Act.
