The Christian Right’s Right to Life New Zealand distributed a survey questionnaire related mostly to its anti-abortion extremist stances, but included one about same-sex marriage.
The Family Party and Kiwi Party support prohibiting abortion. The Progressives regard it as a conscience vote, but in practice, Jim Anderton has a pro-choice voting record. National regards abortion as […]

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It’s usually a sign that the Christian Right are getting desperate when they start to engage in homophobic diatribes. Case in point- Bob McCoskrie’s Family First.
During this week, Family First has pouted and postured at National’s admission that they might well not reverse Section 59 Repeal after the non-binding referendum in question at all. Meanwhile, […]

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On Radio Waetea, Prime Minister Helen Clark said that she regarded Destiny Church as a ‘cult,’ which led the Bishop of Bling to take umbrage. She was reacting to news from John Tamihere and Willie Jackson which indicated that Destiny might become an urban Maori authority.
Sorry, but was she actually right? I’m aware that there […]

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Lewis Holden left a message for me and advised me to have a look at the blogsite below, which is about inclusive monarchism. I tend to be not overly fussed about whoever our head of state is, as long as we have a written constitution which contains equality rights.
I have nothing against Queen Elizabeth II, […]

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At the moment, New Zealand Christian Right activists seem to be scuttling out of the woodwork. Here’s a quick recap of what exactly is going on with their pressure groups…
*Right to Life New Zealand is starting an anti-abortion advertising campaign on Television New Zealand…
*Family First commissioned the Institute for Economic Research to produce a glossy […]

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National’s fundamentalist New Plymouth candidate, Jonathan Young, is attracting controversy for his claims that lesbians and gay men can be “cured”. However, one of the fundamentalist organisations that he was involved with, Teen Challenge, tells a quite similar  story.
While doing a background check on Young, I found that he was a former leader of Teen Challenge, […]

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If I had to choose a word to describe the outcome of the Canadian federal elections, held yesterday, it would be familiar- it bore a resemblance to New Zealand’s 2002 General Election.
In 2002 here, Labour won a second term, against Bill English’s inept leadership of the National Opposition and party disunity. The election was calamitous […]

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In the new European (Dutch) gay magazine Winq, there’s an intriguing article about the eroticisation of ethnicity and poverty in France, specifically its North African and Arab communities (or beurs).
While New Zealand and Australia have had our own odious anti-immigrant racist political parties, the French Front National and British National Party are still electorally viable […]

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Here’s some fun. Today, the Maxim Institute came out with a report about taxation, while Ken Orr of Right to Life New Zealand had a hissy fit about ALRANZ. Their rhetoric reveals deep seated divisions inside the Christian Right.
The Institute’s new paper deals with the allegedly iniquitous effects of progressive income tax, and its redistribution […]

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What do proposed New Right social welfare privatisation initiatives have to do with New Zealand’s LGBT communities? Plenty.
Think about it. Religious social service providers constitute much of the alternative social security network if central government income assistance proves insufficient. If these religious social service providers are affiliated to the Methodist Church or other inclusive denomination […]

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