Anti-marriage equality website hacked
TVNZ 23 April 2013 Family First is vowing to keep its anti-marriage equality website running for the next few years after it was repeatedly attacked by hackers. The Protect Marriage website suffered another attack by hackers on Sunday, just a few days after the same-sex marriage bill was passed. National Director of Family First NZ [...]
Mike Butler: The gay-marriage self-parody
Breaking Views – NZCPD 19 April 2013 The phrase “gay rights for nuclear-free whales” quite accurately parodies the shallow, trendy, bumper-sticker campaigns of the New Zealand left. Shallow trendiness dominated parliament this week as Labour MP Louisa Wall’s Marriage (Definition of Marriage Bill) Amendment Bill passed its third reading 77 votes to 44. Customs Minister [...]
France legalises gay marriage after harsh debate
NZ Herald 24 April 2013 Just days after New Zealand voted gay marriage into law, France has followed suit, becoming the 14th country to do so. France’s lower house National Assembly overnight (NZT) adopted a bill legalising same-sex marriages and adoptions for gay couples, following months of opposition protests. In its final reading, a majority [...]
Maurice Williamson dances to nihilist beat
ANDRE VAN HEERDEN – NZ Catholic 22 Apr 2013 ….To be sure, Williamson was by turns impassioned, indignant, and ingratiating, but the lasting impression he left on any rational listener would have been one of unmitigated inanity. The speech was fallacious nonsense from beginning to end. Let’s take it point by point. …In opening, he [...]
Gay weddings ban: Churches say no
NZ Herald 23 April 2013 Gay marriage has been legalised by Parliament – but it is still banned by most of New Zealand’s 10 main religions. A Herald survey has found that five of the top 10 – Catholics, Baptists, Ratana, Mormons and Muslims – are unlikely to bend their strict opposition to gay marriages despite [...]
Confirming the bias of the media
Polyamorous marriage in NZ
The Daily Blog 2 April 2013 Features writers such as Chris Trotter, David Slack Efeso Collins, John Minto, Keith Locke, Sue Bradford and more When Bob McCroskrie stirred the pot by pointing out that we can’t call it ‘marriage equality’ if we’re not including anyone who wants to get married, many clever and supposedly intersectional [...]
Gay Marriage – And now on to polygamy
The Economist 8 April 2013 THE excitement over the Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage has probably died down until the court comes back with a decision. And what with a majority of senators now in favour, it certainly looks like, whether by judicial or legislative action, gay marriage is on a fairly rapid road [...]
Legalize Polygamy! No, I am not kidding
Legalize Polygamy! No, I am not kidding Slate 15 April 2013 – Jillian Keenan Recently, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reintroduced a tired refrain: Legalized gay marriage could lead to other legal forms of marriage disaster, such as polygamy. Rick Santorum, Bill O’Reilly, and other social conservatives have made similar claims. It’s hardly [...]
How they voted on the 3rd Reading
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