Aussie family values party dumps candidate for porn pics

I enjoy exposing the hypocrisy of the "family values" crowd in this country as regular readers well know. It is interesting to see that the hypocrites are not limited to Christianists and politicians within the borders of the USA. As this Sydney Morning Herald story (http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/10/28/1193555533377.html) reveals, one of Australia's "family values" candidates apparently liked to take nude photos of himself which somehow managed to show up on various gay web sites. Oops!! I guess Larry Craig's "wide stance" excuse doesn't work to well on that conduct. Here are some story highlights:

IF YOU thought John Howard was having a bad election campaign, spare a thought for Andrew Quah, a candidate for the Family First Party. He has been dumped as its candidate for the western Sydney seat of Reid after photos of him parading his private parts appeared on gay websites and were emailed around the country. Mr Quah, 21, has also admitted to looking at porn websites in the past two weeks, which made his position untenable given his party's strong commitment to protect children by making porn harder to access on the internet.

Mr Quah told the Herald yesterday he thought it was possible that he had posed for the compromising photographs. "I might have been drunk off my face or my political enemies might have drugged me." One photo shows him exposing his private parts as he takes a picture of himself in a mirror. "I can tell you, it's not me. I know these things. "But that's not my penis," he said. So whose was it? But really, I can't remember … All I know, I have been humiliated."

So too has Family First. Its leader, Steve Fielding, counselled Mr Quah when the news surfaced at the weekend - then disendorsed him, dropped him from the Family First NSW executive and expelled him. Already Mr Quah is being called "Australia's smallest loser". The Other Cheek blog even put up what it alleged were full-frontal close-ups of him but used Family First stickers for optional modesty.

When asked about viewing pornography, he confirmed he had done so in the past two weeks. "I don't want to talk about it, but I have a different view to the party because I don't believe that it is possible to block pornography on the internet."