Society says HIV must be classified as "Notifiable Disease"

Media Report 31 October 2007

The Society belives that HIV (the ‘pre-cursor’ of the “scourge of AIDS”) should be classified as a “notifiable disease” under the Health (Infections and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations 1966. AIDS is currently a “notifiable disease” and the Society challenges the NZ Aids Foundation (NZAF) and Gay political lobby groups like GayNZ.com to support its call. Sadly, despite significant taxpayer funding, NZAF, which has been plagued by ongoing political, financial and leadership strife and instability, has failed to avert the rapid rise in HIV infections in New Zealand (infections are overwhelmingly among the homosexual community whose lifestyle it and GayNZ.com succour and champion). Read more

HIV infections in gay ‘bareback’ porn shoots

Media Release 29/10/07

The Society has highlighted criticisms of the Chief Censor’s Office by Steve Crow, the leading distributor of straight porn in New Zealand, regarding its “double standards” in the classification of hardcore gay porn compared to straight porn [1]. Why, asks Crow, has Chief Censor Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” gone so soft on gay porn – particularly so-called ‘bareback porn’ – that has been linked with the rise in HIV infection and STIs among the promiscuous homosexual community? The Society, a staunch opponent of Crow’s porn business, believes his concerns do deserve serious investigation by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker. Crow states that “perhaps this ["double-standards"] is a direct reflection of the personal attitudes of the Chief and Deputy Chief Censor [Ms Nicola McCully], both of whom are gay.” [2]

The proliferation of bareback DVDs and videos available for viewing in steamy gay bathhouses, saunas, cruise clubs and sordid S&M clubs, is of serious concern to health experts such as New Zealand AIDS Foundation’s National Campaign Co-ordinator Douglas Jenkin. He says ready access by promiscuous homosexuals to these publications – featuring high risk (condomless-bareback) explicit sex acts – is one of the many factors cited as a reason behind recent increases in HIV infection and the return of the STIs (e.g. syphilis, gonorrhoea) among the homosexual community. [3] Bill Hastings claims he shares these concerns but has done nothing.

According to a recent report [4] in UK magazine Boyz, three young male performers aged 18, 21 and 26, were infected with HIV whilst they were making a British bareback gay porn film. Read more

From Lesbian and Gay Right Activist to Christ

AIDS/HIV crisis linked to “unsafe” gay porn: Censors attacked for “double standards”

 

Press Release 26/10/07

 

A fierce debate is raging in the homosexual community over the impact of “unsafe sex” DVDs and videos on gay men’s sexual practices (sodomy), and the appropriate censorship of this ‘bareback porn’ material [featuring condomless anal sex] that some gay researchers cite as one of the factors helping to fuel the pandemic of HIV/AIDS (as well as STIs such as syphyllis) that has been ravaging the promiscuous homosexual communities. “The debate over its morality and dangers is heating up … over bareback porn both within the American porn industry and without,” says Douglas Jenkin of the NZ Aids Foundation’s Gay Men’s Health Unit [1]. “Today there is little outcry amongst gay and bisexual men protesting its existence [i.e. risky bareback porn], “and it’s easily dismissed [by gay users] as “fantasy” or “a choice”, says Jenkin [2].

Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, an “openly gay man,” has been accused by New Zealand’s leading pornographer Steve Crow of “double standards” when it comes to classifying this hardcore gay porn compared to straight (heterosexual porn). Hastings and his lesbian deputy, says Crow, because they are both homosexuals, are soft on gay hardcore as compared to the straight variety which he promotes for a living [3].

Hastings has called on the gay community to send their opinions to his office on the influence that explicit “bareback” sex DVDs, gay and straight, have on viewers and society; about what they think the Classification Office should do about them within existing law; and on whether and how they think the law should be changed [4]. The Society is concerned at suggestions that the censorship laws are not being even-handedly applied to hardcore publications by Mr Hasting’s Office because of the “sexual orientation” of its two statutory office holders. Read more

Minister Hon. Rick Barker Fails to Replace Lame-Duck Board Censors

Media Release 24/10/07

The Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. Rick Barker, has failed to replace three members of the nine-member Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”), whose positions expired on 31 March 2007, almost seven months ago. The Society, which has raised numerous concerns with the Minister and his predecessor, the Hon. George Hawkins, over their respective failures to comply with their statutory duties regarding Board appointments; says that these three lame- duck members – Peter Cartwright, Dr Lalita Rajasingham and Stephen Stehlin – have played no active role in Board proceedings since 27 April 2007. However, it points out that the Board is required by law to have NINE fully-functioning members (not just six), each fully capable of participating in all review processes, who reflect the breadth of cultural, ethical and standards-based concerns found in New Zealand Society in the area of censorship (safeguarding the “public good”) [1].

The Board has continued this year to convene hearings, deliberate on critical reviews and issue decisions, but has done so since the end of April without any input from the three lame-duck members concerned. While it is true that the Board can operate with full authority and carry out its functions in law as a quorum of five [2], the non-participation of three members due to their positions having expired, is not sanctioned in law, says the Society. The quorum provision is only there for pragmatic reasons – to overcome genuine unavailability (sickness, family commitments, work conflicts etc) of members. It is not a provision put in place to assist a tardy Minister, unable or refusing to carry out his statutory duties. Read more

Chief Censor Bill Hastings and Hardcore Pornographer Steve Crow

In a press release issued last year to explain why his Office had banned the Otago University student magazine Critic, which featured a controversial essay on drug rape, Chief Censor William Kenneth (Bill) Hastings described a male pornographer whose profile was also featured in the magazine, as one “who makes a living by filming the extreme degradation and humiliation of women for sexual arousal.” [1]. The man concerned has done well financially making obscene hard-core pornography, just like flamboyant 50-year old New Zealander pornographer Steve Crow – the man who became infamous in 2002 for seeking unsuccessfully to use the facilities of the Waikato public hospital to film the birth of his aspiring ‘porn star’ Nikki’s baby, so he could incorporate the birth scene into his sleazy porn film entitled “Ripe” [2].

Crow, who recently failed in his bid for the Auckland mayoralty, continues to promote his most visible enterprise Erotica Adult Lifestyles Exhibitions (“SeXpo”) – promoted via “Boobs on Bikes” parades of topless pornstars in various New Zealand cities; and is the largest supplier of “adult” explicit sex publications (DVDs etc.) to the New Zealand commercial market. According to a North & South report, [in 2002] “he, his ex-business partner Fiona Gibb and his company Vixen Direct” faced no less than “135 criminal charges” – pleading guilty to 33 of the lesser charges – relating to the distribution of “objectionable” publications [3]. A Listener report in 2004 notes that he remains perfectly happy to be called a “pornographer” and a “sleazeball” [4]. He is managing director of the so-called “adult entertainment” (porn) empire CVC Group Ltd.

Hastings, like Crow, also has a lucrative job dealing with hard-core porn sleaze, earning about $190,000 a year censoring publications featuring the extreme degradation and humiliation of women for sexual arousal, paedophilia, sexual violence, necrophilia, bestiality, sex involving human faeces, and other “objectionable” content. However, one key difference between the two men is that Crow invests his own money into making, watching and selling degrading moral filth, while Hastings gets paid by the tax-payers of New Zealand to watch and rewatch it and study it in excruciating detail.

Hastings, dubbed “Mr Clean” in a recent NZ Herald article [5] and his dream team, predominantly women, operate from a plush Office on the 4^th Floor of BP House in Wellington, with spectacular commanding views over the harbour. They write lengthy reports that provide the legal justification for why this hard-core porn garbage can be viewed by those 18 years of age and older – classifying most of it as serving the purpose of “entertainment” – serving the purpose of adult sexual titillation etc. Hastings would maintain that by writing these lengthy reports detailing the finer nuances of all these explicit and degrading sex acts, etc. they are strictly fulfilling the requirements of the legislation by viewing and classifying the publications. Read more

Chief Censor hardly fussed if “his kids” were caught watching hard-core gay porn.

“MR CLEAN: Chief Censor Bill Hastings on freedom, family and the filthiest thing he’s ever seen”.

This was the front page headline of Canvas Magazine, an insert in this weekend’s NZ Herald Herald (13/10/07), advertising a three page Cover Story entitled “The Taste Master” by Derek Cheng on “a man who daily wades through horrific scenes of [hard-core] pornography and violence – for the public good”.

The Society believes that most decent New Zealand parents who care for the moral well-being of their children and young persons would be appalled that our “openly gay” [see ref. 1] Chief Censor has admitted that “he can’t see himself kicking up much of a fuss” if he catches “his kids” with hard-core porn or hardcore gay porn “so long as the material is legal.” (Canvas, pp. 13-14. i.e. not banned. Note: illegal material has been banned).

Most parents with a sincere and informed concern for their child’s moral welfare are aware of the morally corrupting impact, and addictive nature of hardcore pornography classified R18 as well as other porn classified R16. They would be outraged, deeply grieved and offended to have their children socialising in another family’s home (like that of Hasting’s) where the supervising adults took the same lassez-faire attitude towards hardcore porn, as he has expressed. Most want their children to have nothing whatsoever to do with porn for good reason and want their children growing up with a healthy view of sex, not the morally corrosive garbage promoted in hardcore sex videos featuring promiscuity and unhealthy sexual practices (e.g. sodomy), regularly passed by Hastings for teenagers and young adults to watch. Read more

Are Gays and Lesbians Demanding "Special Rights" in Seeking Same-Sex Marriage?

This question is addressed in the Video Documentary Gay Rights / Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda marketed in New Zealand by Living Word Distributors (Hamilton).

The Society is most grateful to the Wellington-based gay rights activist, Calum Bennachie, for producing a full transcript of the video – excerpts of which are reproduced below to address the question under consideration. Mr Bennachie prepared the transcript (in the public domain) as part of a voluminous submission to Film and Literature Board of Review (“the Board”), in which he successfully sought, on behalf of Human Rights Action Group (Wellington), to have this video banned.

Excerpts from Living Word Video Gay Rights/Special Rights

(Note: The video has now been classified “unrestricted” by the Board following a unanimous Court of Appeal decision to quash the flawed High Court decision that had upheld the ban by the Board).

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What is Wrong with Gay Marriage?

Stanley Kurtz examines the social dangers of sanctioning gay marriage.

"A clear majority of the American public opposes same-sex marriage," says Stanley Kurtz of the Hudson Institute. "And yet this opposition, though real, is by-and-large silent. So striking is this general silence, that one cannot help but wonder about the reasons for it."

To read complete article go to:

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/KurGayM.htm

Also see:

Gay Marriage — and Marriage
Sam Shulman

"…In a gay marriage, one of two men must play the woman, or one of two women must play the man. "Play" here means travesty–burlesque. Not that their love is a travesty; but their participation in a ceremony that apes the marriage bond, with all that goes into it, is a travesty. Their taking-over of the form of this crucial and fragile connection of opposites is a travesty of marriage’s purpose of protecting, actually and symbolically, the woman who enters into marriage with a man. To burlesque that purpose weakens those protections, and is essentially and profoundly anti-female."

To read complete article go to:

http://orthodoxytoday.org/articles2/SchulmanGayMarriage.php

‘Homophobia’, Same-sex ‘Marriage’ and the Aggressive Lesbian Political Agenda

"Homophobia alive and well on [the Kapiti] Coast" was the headline of a recent letter to the editor written by a couple who criticised the Kapiti Observer Newspaper for publishing an article in which mayoralty candidate Jenny Rowan’s "sexual orientation" was briefly referred to. What the article did not disclose to readers was that this "openly lesbian" candidate and her lesbian partner of 20 years, Jools Joslin, have spent years crusading for the New Zealand Marriage Act to be radically changed so that same-sex couples like themselves can get married. Rowan has helped force the issue of her identification as an "openly lesbian" person and her claimed "gay rights" into a national political debate, at significant cost to the tax-payers through legal aid pay-outs involving High Court and Court of Appeal litigation, and yet now she seeks to downplay the relevance of her "sexual orientation" in the political sphere.

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NZ Forum on the Family

This Forum to be held in Auckland on Monday 15th of October 2007 will bring together a national network of pro-family and pro-life organisations, scholars, lobby groups and leaders that seek to promote and protect the well-being of families, the role of parents and the welfare of our children.

For more details, go here.