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Abbott lame, gay churchy loser, says his daughter
August 13, 2009
TONY Abbott has thrown his support behind an anti-drugs program for parents after his teenage daughter called him a ''lame, gay churchy loser''.
The Opposition spokesman for families was trying to talk to the 18-year-old about the perils of drug abuse, ''with what I thought was a worthy moral exultation'', he said at the launch of How To Drug-Proof Your Kids program yesterday.
Only a year ago police were called to Mr Abbott's home to disperse a crowd of revellers trying to gatecrash his daughter's birthday party.
Yesterday, the developmental manager for gay youth support group Twenty10, David Moutou, said ''gay'' was not synonymous with ''bad'' and was disappointed it would be repeated that way by a respected member of Parliament.
''Young people in their school environment are hypersensitive to the use of words, like 'gay', with negative connotations,'' he said.
The preventive program teaches parents how to talk to eight to 14-year-olds about drinking, smoking and drugs. ''Parents are the most influential factor in steering children away from drug use,'' the chief executive of Focus on the Family, which developed the program, Brett McLeod, said.
YUKO NARUSHIMA
The Age