Politician's comments on very shaky ground

[Lilitu]

An Aussie lobbyist haphazardly compared the gay community's statistics with that of smokers, and rather foolishly implied that we should stop discouraging children from smoking:

"I think we're going to owe smokers a big apology when the homosexual community's own statistics for its health - which it presents when it wants more money for health - are that is has higher rates of drug-taking, of suicide, it has the life of a male reduced by up to 20 years," he told the audience.

"The life of smokers is reduced by something like seven to 10 years and yet we tell all our kids at school they shouldn't smoke."

A bit of a dangerous move there I think. This is old news BTW, I was looking through NZ herald. Here's the link to the full article

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/art...d=10832076

Hmm the article also says this "Mr Croome said ACL representatives had previously linked gay equality to Nazis, paedophiles and the stolen generations."
I wonder how they linked it to the stolen generations?