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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

'Happy little homophobe' loses bid to stop vilification case

A "happy little homophobe" has lost his bid to throw out a discrimination case after many of his religious and political social media posts attacked homosexuality as being the devil's work and the reason for COVID.

John Sunol, who also describes himself as a homophobic bigot, published nearly 220 Twitter and YouTube posts that included "God has allowed Satan to bring the curse of COVID-19 to the word due to the wickedness of same-sex marriage and other gender based issues".

He also targeted a man and others, calling them a number of things, including mongrel, intolerant, authoritarian and Marxist.

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