Australia’s Margaret Court Says Lawmakers ‘Not Listening to Conservatives’ After Vast Majority Vote for Same-Sex Marriage

‘They Are Not Allowing You to Speak’ Anti-Gay Pentecostal Christian Minister Court Falsely Claims

Australia’s Margaret Court is furious after 61 percent of Australians voted for same-sex marriage in a nationwide postal plebiscite. The results were announced Tuesday, including that a remarkable 79.5 percent of eligible Australians sent in their ballots.

But Court, a former tennis champion who is now an anti-gay activist and Pentecostal Christian minister, sees things differently, and is lashing out at Australia’s lawmakers and political parties.

“We look at what’s there now and they are not listening to the conservatives or what a lot of people would like,” she told The West Australian. “They are not allowing you to speak,” she said in the nation’s fourth-largest newspaper. “I don’t think I want to be with either party.”

Australian taxpayers spent what equates to more than $90 million in U.S. currency to poll its citizens. The country was engulfed in anti- and pro-marriage equality advertising and campaigns. For better or for worse – the rhetoric at times was very destructive – it was an amazing example of “allowing you to speak” and “listening to the conservatives or what a lot of people would like.”

Court has become a lightning rod. She has compared gay people to Hitler, and transgender people to the Devil. As her country was engulfed in the same-sex marriage debate, she actually claimed same-sex couples marrying will be the end of Christmas.

“They want marriage because they want to destroy it,” Court falsely claimed in September.

“It’s not about marriage. It will affect Christian schools, it will affect freedom of speech,” the 75-year old former tennis star said. “There will be no Mother’s Day, there will be no Father’s Day, there will be no Easter, there will be no Christmas.”

It must really irk Court to hear that Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has demanded Parliament get a same-sex marriage law passed “before Christmas.”

The Advocate notes another tennis champion, Martina Navratilova, egged Court on about marriage and the holidays.

“When the news came down that Australians overwhelmingly voted ‘yes,’ Navratilova, who is an out lesbian, trolled Court with the following pointed tweet.”

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