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'Unacceptable': Pyne criticises colleague's historical anti-gay comments

Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne has rejected as unacceptable a senior colleague's claims about homosexuals and their "sordid behaviour".

Ahead of a postal vote on same-sex marriage, Mr Pyne again called on Little Business Minister Michael McCormack to distance himself from the remarks.

"A week never goes by any more that homosexuals and their sordid behaviour don't get further entrenched in society," he wrote in a 1993 newspaper editorial, for which he later apologised.

"Unfortunately gays are here and, if the disease their unnatural acts helped spread doesn't wipe out humanity, they're here to stay."

Mr McCormack had responsibility to oversee the Bureau of Statistics' running of the Census, but Mr Pyne was swift to insist he is not in charge of the postal vote on same-sex marriage.

"Those remarks are not acceptable in modern population. I don't consent with them," Mr Pyne told the Nine Network on Friday.

Acting Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann will be overseeing the postal ballot, which will ki

Christopher Pyne says his same-sex marriage back, vote for Malcolm Turnbull 'not a secret'

A "sensational story" that "excited the press" is how senior frontbencher Christopher Pyne has described comments he made at a Liberal function on lgbtq+ marriage and his party's leadership.

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Mr Pyne says he has voted for Malcolm Turnbull "over my whole career"
He brushed off allegations he was disloyal to Tony Abbott, says "[we] were central to him becoming prime minister"
Mr Pyne says "not remarkable" he wants same-sex marriage in Australia

A secret audio recording of Mr Pyne addressing factional allies in a Sydney bar on Friday night stirred up tensions within the Coalition between conservatives and moderates.

Mr Pyne was recorded as saying he had voted for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in every leadership ballot he had ever been in, and that Coalition colleagues were working on achieving same-sex marriage.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott lashed out at his former minister, after it was suggested Mr Pyne had been plotting his downfall while still a member of his possess cabinet.

But Mr

Christopher Pyne 'very sorry' for 'damaging' same-sex marriage remarks

Federal Minister Christopher Pyne has said he is "very sorry" for his "damaging" remarks to factional allies last Friday, which have set off days of infighting in the Turnbull Government.

The Minister for Defence Industry and Leader of the House made his full-throated apology to local branch members in Adelaide, after playing down the significance of his comments earlier this week.

On Friday, he told colleagues in the Liberal Party's moderate faction they were in the "winner's circle" and lgbtq+ marriage could happen "sooner than everyone thinks".

The comments were secretly recorded and released to the media, enraging senior conservative colleagues who privately demanded Mr Turnbull dump Mr Pyne as Chief of the House.

At a local branch meeting on Wednesday evening in his electorate of Sturt, Mr Pyne said: "I'm very sorry that my comments at an event last Friday hold caused such a distraction for the Government. I apologise to anyone they have offended.

"My remarks were ill-chosen and unwise and I can see how unhelpfu

Christopher Pyne’s gay marriage comments land him in fiery water
Federal Government minister Christopher Pyne’s comments during an after-party in Sydney acquire landed him – and the rest of the Liberal Party – in hot water from most sections of the political spectrum.
Reportedly released to far-right commentator Andrew Bolt, the recording of the comments were taken in the company of some of the other left-leaning members of the Liberal Party.
What got most people heckled was Christopher Pyne’s boasting about the early introduction of same-sex marriage.
“Friends, we are in the winner’s circle but we contain to deliver a couple of things and one of those we’ve got to deliver before too long is marriage equality in this country.
“We’re going to get it. I think it might even be sooner than everyone thinks.”
Malcolm Turnbull
The Prime Minister has distanced himself from the comments made by Christopher Pyne, that gay marriage would be introduced “sooner than everyone thinks.”
Mr Turnbull said gay marriage would only be regulation once the Australian universal had voted on the issue.
“As far as the same sex marriage issue, our policy is very clear, it has not changed, we hav