Finding true essence of marriage – Rex Ahdar
Dominion Post 8 April 2013 It is an empty argument to say that gay couples deserve equal legal recognition, Rex Ahdar says. The catchcry of same-sex marriage proponents is “equality”: gay couples have a right to equal treatment and to deny them legal marriage is blatant discrimination. Yet this claim deflects attention from the real [...]
4 in 5 Maori children born outside marriage
Lindsay Mitchell Blog 7 April 2013 The earliest statistics kept on Maori ex-nuptial births were in 1968. The percentage of Maori children born outside marriage would have been even lower pre-1968. Does marriage matter? Of course it does. Married people tend to be wealthier, are more likely to stay together, and provide their children with [...]
Beyer: We were naive liberalising prostitution
NZ Herald 7 April 2013 The world’s first transsexual mayor, former street prostitute Georgina Beyer, admitted yesterday she was naive when the trade was legalised. At a passionate public forum in Papatoetoe yesterday, South Auckland residents berated MPs for not addressing the notorious street prostitution problems around Hunters Corner. MPs from National, Labour and New [...]
Make the Marriage Pledge
What about the children of same-sex couples?
Family Research Council 4 April 2013 A few weeks ago, there was a flurry of news coverage of a new “Policy Statement” (that’s what it was, by its own labeling—it wasn’t a “study”) from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which endorsed the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples. The impression which advocates for marriage [...]
‘Pathetic’ fine for abandoning toddler
NZ Herald 4 April 2013 A “pathetic” fine for a man who abandoned a toddler in a pram in the middle of the night has renewed calls for judges to impose minimum sentences. The 22-month-old child was found on a street in central Christchurch about 3am last Thursday by a resident who heard him crying. [...]
Laws needed to clean up underage prostitution
Dave Crampton – NZ Herald 3 April 2013 No doubt many people will be appalled when reading last week’s Herald story noting that underage girls in south Auckland are being pimped out by their parents and relatives to be sex workers. One local church pastor – from the C3 church – has said that he [...]
The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage – Well Put
USA Today 21 March 2013 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone chairs the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. Here are his views on the subject in response to questions from USA TODAY: Q: What is the greatest threat posed by allowing gays and lesbians to marry? A:The [...]
“It takes a mom and a dad to create a child, so it takes a mom and a dad to raise one”
The words of 13-year-old Amelia Summerhays, who captured a child’s point of view with a touch of humor: 2013 Utah Celebration of Marriage “As a thirteen-year-old, I’ve got it all figured out why I need a mom and a dad. When Mom says no to ice cream, I can go ask Dad. And when I [...]
Donor kids must not be forgotten
Melinda Tankard Reist – Herald Sun 31 Mar 2013 When Lauren Burns listened to the Prime Minister’s national apology to those who suffered forcible adoption, she wanted to ask: what about me? It wasn’t that the 29-year-old Melbourne woman didn’t find the speech moving. She believes the mothers and children so cruelly separated deserved the [...]
