It is, of course, not the first time that Clayton Cosgrove has been guilty of a tasteless, bordering-on-homophobic comment in the House; Stuff reported in 2011:
Labour's Trevor Mallard says he shouldn't have called Attorney-General Chris Finlayson "Tinkerbell'' but denies there is problem with homophobia in the party.
ACT's Wellington central candidate Stephen Whittington yesterday accused openly gay Labour MPs Grant Robertson and Charles Chauvel of covering up prejudice among their caucus.
Hutt South MP Mr Mallard likened Mr Finlayson to the Peter Pan fairy during a parliamentary debate in October 2009. Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove twice called Mr Finlayson Tinkerbell in the House in July 2009.
Mr Mallard said last night: ``I certainly don't think I'm homophobic. It's a comment that was probably unfortunate and if I'd thought carefully I wouldn't have made it.''
As a gay man, Kevin Hague will have a better idea of what constitutes homophobia than we do. We know that Mr Cosgrove won't be voting for David Cunliffe next week, so we guess that his vote will be going to Shane Jones, rather than to Grant Robertson. In fact we wonder if Mr Robertson would even accept Cosgrove's vote.
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