A One Nation candidate already under fire for calling single mothers “lazy” is facing fresh furore after a piece he wrote surfaced which described homosexuality as an “acceptable loss, on evolutionary terms”.

In the piece for the Quadrant magazine in 2015, Pilbara One Nation candidate David Archibald wrote that only a “degenerate culture” would permit same-sex marriage.

Mr Archibald wrote the proponents of “homosexual marriage” knew that marriage for the purpose of procreation was an important building for society, and any move to change it would weaken the community.

Camera Icon One Nation candidate David Archibald. Credit: Larissa Rice.

“Well, that was the case at least until recently and the notion that some people should be allowed to get married just because they would like to join the club of married people,” he wrote.

“That can only lead to a bitter harvest of broken marriages and abandoned children if the notion of marriage is cheapened and lessened and broadened by including people who are not entering into the state of married bliss in order to produce offspring.

“It is not about a pair of homosexuals being able to look gooey-eyed at each other, it is about undermining civilisation and making our culture more like African-American culture with its 70 per cent illegitimacy rate.”

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Mr Archibald wrote that he believed cultures which reinforced evolutionary pressures produced a higher standard of living.

“Cultures that are at cross purposes to those pressures go to hell in a hand basket,” he wrote.

“It is possible that the incidence of homosexuality is an acceptable loss, in evolutionary terms, so that the rest of the males can be more male-like.

“Viewed in that way, homosexuality is part of the human condition. But so is marriage – it is more than just a social construct. A successful culture wouldn’t mix the two. A degenerate culture might.”

Both Mr Archibald and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation WA leader Colin Tincknell were contacted for comment.