RIGHT-wing Senator Eric Abetz has denied he implied homosexuals can become straight, during a TV interview.

Asked by Samantha Maiden on Sky News on Tuesday if, “do you personally believe that gays and lesbians can pull up their bootstraps and show a bit of discipline and become heterosexuals. Do you actually think they can stop being who they are in some way?,” Senator Abetz said: “The reality is, and evidence has been given to Senate Committees, where people that have been in gay relationships have gone into heterosexual relationships and I believe that can happen courtesy of the evidence.

.@SenatorAbetz: The media only wants 'one side of the equation' spoken about when it comes to same sex relationships https://t.co/wsoFeWly0I pic.twitter.com/Opd0JmVW9O — Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) 4 April 2017

“It is up to the individual as to what they want to be and how they want to express themselves. That is up to them in a free society.

“My complaint has been that when people say that they have moved from a gay relationship to a heterosexual relationship, they are never reported, they give evidence to Senate Committees and it’s as if the evidence was never given yet when people say they were in a straight relationship going into a gay relationship then that is all that’s reported.

“All I seek, and I don’t think it’s too much to ask, is for a bit of balance in the reporting by Australia’s journalists of the actual evidence, the real evidence, that is given to some of these Senate Committees and I think we all know people that have been, if I can call it that, a straight relationship who have gone on to be in a gay relationship and people then doing the opposite and the fact that both occur in society is an established fact and why we can’t report on the two way traffic is something that has bemused me somewhat and is indicative of a certain bias in the media that they only want one side of the equation spoken about.”

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SENATOR Eric Abetz, railing against corporate Australia for its latest gay marriage stunt, said evidence showed that just because a person was gay today, does not mean they will be gay tomorrow.

When asked by journalist Samantha Maiden whether he personally believed gays and lesbians “could show a bit of discipline and become heterosexuals” Senator Abetz said there was evidence to suggest they could.

“The evidence that has been given to Senate committees, where people who have been in gay relationships, have then gone into heterosexual relationships,” he said.

Big business has launched another campaign to raise the profile of gay marriage by asking ordinary Australians to wear a specifically-designed “acceptance ring” until same-sex marriage is legislated.

Originally published as Abetz denies ‘gays can change’ comment