After being reported by the ABC to have described ACT Policing as a force influenced by a homosexual agenda, and Welcome To Country ceremonies as ‘animistic practices’, recently endorsed Liberal party candidate Peter McKay has been dumped in the lead up to Canberra’s forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections The comments were made in a 2018 submission to the federal inquiry into religious freedoms, known as the ‘Ruddock review’ Mr McKay, in his submission stated that debate surrounding religious freedom had been supressed on “the consequences of accepting or rejecting homosexuality regarding demographic effect, economic growth, health, increased government support for old age support, the emotional health of children, [and] premature.