A year after Christian Democrat Party candidate Peter Madden’s campaign for local government ended in embarrassing defeat, his election posters can still be seen around Sydney, while he continues to upload anti-gay rhetoric on YouTube.

His poster, showing the moral crusader rallying against ‘Mardi Gras anarchy’ among other conservative policies, didn’t do him much good last year – he picked up only a few hundred votes in the sought-after Sydney electorate.

Snapped yesterday and shown below, this poster is still visible on Darlinghurst Road on Kings Cross, going against electoral regulations which state that candidates’ election campaign banners should be swiftly taken down when voting concludes. Same Same readers have also pointed out two other Madden posters still visible around central Sydney.

The right-wing ranter – who famously sought an end to Mardi Gras but was then caught hanging around outside its 2011 launch event – is currently turning his rabid attention to combating marriage equality.

His grimly titled new video “ALP – Endangering Our Children* seeks to suggest kids would be harmed if same-sex couples were allowed to tie the knot, but he doesn’t specify how exactly they would be hurt.

Madden took the results the Labor’s National Conference very badly, hating its policy change to support marriage equality. “The Australian Labor Party has now totally rejected tradition,” he thunders. “We cannot let this Australian Labor Party mockery of marriage go unchallenged.”

Peter Madden has also being doing a bit of social networking in his abundant spare time. But he may regret starting a Facebook page. The comments we’ve seen so far don’t exactly support his strange views.

“Your tactics are shameful and desperate but surely you must realise that it’s a lost cause,” reads one of several pro-equality comments. “There will be marriage equality in Australia. No one is listening to your lies.”