Liberal Party LGBT ambassador Tim Wilson's admission that a marriage equality plebiscite is degrading to LGBT people and subsequent decision to support it anyway, proves he is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, says Andrew Olexander.

WHAT A FASCINATING insight into the psychology of Tim Wilson MP and the current crop of LGBT Liberals.

His Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) "op-ed" comment piece is not pretty. His position on a plebiscite evokes, in me, a profound sense of pity and sadness.

Time to unpack it.

Wilson reveals his "captive" mentality clearly in this article by acknowledging that a plebiscite is degrading and damages the dignity of LGBT people.

Further, he acknowledges that the plebiscite proposal was always a trap and delay tactic and that he privately grieved over it under Abbott.

But after only a few weeks where he claims he tried to overturn it – weeks in which we felt he was conspicuous by his absence and uncharacteristic silence – he quickly surrendered to the idea and adopted it! He was asking the hard right majority of his party to give him a seat in parliament after all. They had already given him a $350,000 sinecure at the Human Rights Commission, so why not?

Just at the point when the vast majority of the LGBT body politic (including former Liberals like me) consolidated and began to fight,
 Wilson surrendered to the opponents of marriage equality and adopted their position. Sometimes, captives do this when they have no alternative (see: Stockholm Syndrome).

Now in a massive exercise of self delusion, and self preservation, Wilson seeks to blame the victim, and justify his identity and existence with fantasy and misinformation — something that was evident when he and other LGBT Liberals campaigned for the hard right, whilst most of us campaigned against them in the Federal Election.

read more: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tim-wilson-cries-over-plebiscite-but-backs-it-anyway,9412