"Some people may be born that way, and I'm most certainly not going to pick on them, but I don't want them abrogating to themselves the right to take the most beautiful word in the English language and say, 'Oh now, that's mine'," he said.



The deadline closes today on Australians being able to enrol to participate in the same-sex marriage postal survey, and Katter claims the LGBTI community is now seeking to reinterpret the word "marriage", as happened with "gay".



"If you want have an arrangement of your own, have an arrangement of your own...but don't take it off us," he said. "And that is what is happening here, they are taking it away from us. The same as ... that most beautiful word in the English language was taken away from all of us. And they took it for themselves."