Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\nIn the conversations, Woodhouse references rightwing influencers Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro and the late Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the podcast in February 2025, Woodhouse said the LGBTQ+ community was pushing its ideology on to others and that separating gender and sex was \u201crubbish\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s this whole reality pretending that same-sex marriage is real \u2013 it\u2019s not. It ignores decades of the reality of observations of the dynamics between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod designed those interplays, so if you take those dynamics away from a child, or from society, you destroy its fabric. You can\u2019t pretend, it just doesn\u2019t work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He adds there is \u201cthis illusion that you can somehow change your sex, which you can\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n
When asked about Woodhouse\u2019s comments, the state Liberal leader, Ashton Hurn, told Guardian Australia she was focused on \u201cwhat matters\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not share the candidate\u2019s views on those issues and am focused on speaking to South Australians about our policies to make their lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn recent days, Health Minister Chris Picton has shown what can happen when you\u2019re not focused on what matters\u201d, she said, referencing the imbroglio involving Picton\u2019s release of a private email that was incorrectly assumed to be from the wife of a cancer patient.<\/p>\n
Hurn said many people within political parties held differing opinions, and that Woodhouse was \u201callowed to have his views\u201d, in comments reported by the ABC.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to stop someone from having an opinion,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On the SA Liberal party\u2019s website, Woodhouse is described as \u201cstrong, principled and community-minded\u201d and someone whose leadership \u201crestores fairness for all South Australians\u201d.<\/p>\n
Boyer described Woodhouse\u2019s stance as \u201cinsulting\u201d, \u201can attack\u201d and \u201castonishing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would characterise these views as shocking and extreme. I would challenge anyone to listen to these excerpts and these videos \u2026 and suggest otherwise,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n
The SA education minister and member for Wright, Blair Boyer, said Woodhouse\u2019s \u2018shocking and extreme\u2019 views were a symptom of the Liberal party\u2019s \u2018lurch to the right\u2019. Photograph: Steven Markham\/AAP<\/p>\n
He said Woodhouse\u2019s candidacy was a result of \u201clast-minute scramble\u201d by the Liberal party. Wright is a safe Labor seat, having been held by the party since 1997.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ramifications of having such a shambolic and chaotic preselection process is that the political party, in this case the South Australian Liberal party, does not have the time to do the proper vetting it should do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a reason these things take time, for all political parties, because you want to make sure that candidates who are running under your banner are fit and proper people to be standing to be a member of parliament in the South Australian parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people who hold those extreme views are now not just people on the fringes of a major political party \u2026 they are people who are actually preselected candidates for public office at a state election.\u201d<\/p>\n
South Australia voted 62.5% in favour of same-sex marriage in the 2017 national postal survey.<\/p>\n
Woodhouse was approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South Australian Liberal party is standing by an election candidate who said same-sex marriage is not real,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-533080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}