A Katter's Australian Party candidate for the federal election has stood down and a Senate nominee has been suspended after they both made anti-gay comments.

The candidate for the Victorian seat of Wannon, Tess Corbett, has withdrawn her nomination after causing controversy for comparing gay people with paedophiles.

Queensland Senate nominee Bernard Gaynor, meanwhile, has had his party membership suspended and nomination deemed invalid after making other homophobic comments.

But the disciplinary action came as news to him.

"No-one from the party has spoken to me in any way, shape or form to say that my comments are inappropriate and I'd be surprised if anyone from the party did," he said.

"I think everyone from the party would support my view that parents should be able to choose who teaches their children."

He says Mr Katter agrees with his view.

"Perhaps the most disappointing thing for me is that Bob actually supports my stance 100 per cent," he said.

The comments which sparked the controversy were made by Ms Corbett to a local newspaper when she was asked about Labor's anti-discrimination bill.

She said people "should be able to discriminate" in some cases.

"I don't want gays, lesbians or paedophiles to be working in my kindergarten. If you don't like it, go to another kindergarten," she told the Hamilton Spectator.

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When asked by the paper whether she considered homosexuals to be in the same category as paedophiles, Ms Corbett replied: "Yes."

"Paedophiles will be next in line to be recognised in the same way as gays and lesbians and get rights."

Mr Gaynor, KAP's former national general secretary, had taken to Twitter in his defence of Ms Corbett, writing: "I wouldn't let a gay person teach my children and I am not afraid to say it."

'Stupid statement'

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Federal crossbench MP and party founder Bob Katter has told PM that Ms Corbett's comments were stupid and both nominees breached party protocols.

"It was made perfectly clear continuously to all candidates and potential candidates that the party does not exist for them to promote their own preoccupations whether the party agrees with them or not," he said.

But he would not say whether he regards the remarks as offensive or if they are against KAP's position on homosexuality.

Iraq war veteran and one-time Katter's Australian Party senate candidate Bernard Gaynor. ( Supplied: bernardgaynor.com )

"I'm sick and tired of wasting time that should be spent on serious issues, issues serious to this nation," he said.

"I'm not interested in wasting my time on it. I must have made that perfectly clear to the media on a thousand occasions."

KAP national director Aidan McLindon says Mr Gaynor represented his personal views as the party's.

"These are not the issues that we're trying to champion in the public arena," Mr McLindon said.

But he has blamed the media for the furore.

"People just hear the word gay, they jump up and down and all of a sudden they fill the airwaves," he said.

The KAP is trying to run candidates in every federal seat at the next election.

At last year's Queensland election, when Mr Gaynor was the party's media director, it drew widespread criticism for running an anti-gay television advertisement.

'Offensive'

Ms Corbett's remarks have drawn condemnation from the Coalition, the Greens and Labor.

Labor frontbencher Penny Wong, who is openly gay, said the comments did not reflect the values held by the vast majority of Australians.

"The thing that always worries me when I hear these comments is I think about young gay and lesbian Australians, maybe some in country areas, who hear these things from public figures and the message they hear is that they're not OK," she said.

"And I don't think that's a good message for any child to hear.

"To seriously say in today's Australia that someone who is gay is akin to a paedophile is completely offensive."

Greens leader Christine Milne said KAP was fostering discrimination.

"Demeaning and abusing and undermining people who are gay, that is completely unacceptable," she said.

Mr Gaynor says he is not surprised people like Senator Wong have criticised the comments.

"I'm not surprised that Penny Wong has said something against them. She thinks it's fine for a child to be raised without a father. So obviously she has got a different world view than myself," he said.

"I'm surprised that the Opposition has. They tout themselves as the party that supports families, so obviously it seems like they're coming out and saying that parents shouldn't be able to choose who teaches their children."