BOB Katter's Australian Party will not expel a Senate candidate who tweeted that he didn't want homosexuals teaching his children.
The decision prompted an extraordinary attack from Bernard Gaynor, not only on those who decided not to throw him out and on fellow Senate candidate Steve Bailey.
Earlier today, the party confirmed it would not disendorse Mr Bailey, who has publicly said that he supports gay marriage despite one of KAP's core principles being that marriage is between a man and a woman.
The party's National Director Aidan McLindon said candidates were allowed to voice personal opinions, just not on behalf of the party.
"We have our core values and principles like every political party," he said at party headquarters in Brisbane.
"People can champion their opinions, but they can't do it on behalf of the good party."
Mr McLindon had originally asked Mr Bailey to withdraw his candidacy but party leader Bob Katter overrode the decision. Tonight Mr Gaynor welcomed the party's decision not to terminate his own membership.
"The backlash against me from radical progressives was driven from their desire to indoctrinate children, regardless of parents' wishes," he said in a statement.
"Teachers have no right to give the impression that a homosexual lifestyle is moral.
"Indeed, it would be a perverted country if homosexual teachers had more rights than parents to form a child's understanding of morality."
He said parents across Australia should be very uncomfortable about "this disgusting notion", adding that the decision not to terminate his membership was clear proof the management committee was embarrassed about its knee-jerk reaction in the face of criticism from "the flouncing blouse set on the left".
He thanked the party leadership for "belatedly growing a backbone" and deciding not to cave in, before attacking the decision to continue to back Mr Bailey as stupid.
"It is perpetually stupid to keep walking down the aisle with him towards an election," he concluded.
Another KAP candidate, Tess Corbett, withdrew her candidacy last month after telling a newspaper she didn't believe gay people should have the same rights as heterosexuals.
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