LGBTIQ comparison to ISIS by Tele’s Miranda Devine sets off social media outrage

Controversial News Corp columnist Miranda Devine has triggered an angry reaction with a column likening the LGBTIQ campaign supporting marriage equality to the tactics of ISIS.

devine-headlineDevine’s claim that Christian lobbyists wanting to challenge gay marriage are being intimidated and threatened has been met with anger from opponents on Twitter. But the column has also garnered a fair share of supporters.

“It is true that the marriage debate has unleashed hatred from intolerant authoritarians. But the victims are not loved-up LGBTIQ folk,” Devine wrote in her column in the Sunday Telegraph.

“They are gentle Christians and other defenders of traditional marriage who have been vilified for daring to hold a contrary view. Those courageous enough to raise a head above the parapet are brutally made examples of.

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