‘I’m A Celeb Australia’ star claims death penalty would ‘deter’ people from being gay
He previously said that gay people are 'confusing to society'.
Former boxer Anthony Mundine has suggested that the death penalty would “deter” people from homosexuality.
The Australian I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here contestant left the show yesterday (February 8) after just spending two weeks in the jungle, and has since caused an uproar after a vile rant about homosexuality.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph after his exit from the show, Mundine claimed people would “reconsider” homosexuality if there was a harsh punishment for it.
He said: “If we were to live in a society, just like in Aboriginal culture, that homosexuality is forbidden and you do it and the consequences are capital punishment or death, you think you are going to do it? Or think twice about doing it?”
According to News.com.au, the 42-year-old then said paedohpiles should be hanged to see “if they have the balls to do it again”. Then, when asked to clarify whether he thought gay people should be executed, he said he meant “the paedophiles mainly.”
And when discussing LGBT equality, Mundine suggested paedophiles would eventually want their own rights.
He said: “Because they are pushing these gay rights so much in the Western world, the paedophiles out there want their rights.”
Mundine later said that gay people shouldn’t be allowed on television so they don’t influence young children.
“They are not going to be happy until they have primary school kids being gay,” he said. “I talk the truth. It is the system.”
The 42-year-old continued: “I don’t care if you are gay or not, it doesn’t worry me because the creator will judge you later. If you are going to be gay, do it behind closed doors, that is how it used to be in the olden days.”
Before entering the jungle, Mundine told the Sydney Morning Herald that homosexuality is “confusing to society.”