NewstalkZB Interview Podcast link: 26165204.mp3 A Christchurch judge has come under fire over the sentencing in a teenage-girl sadomasochism case. Executive Director at the Society for Promotion of Community Standards David Lane talks to Larry Williams.
The French police are currently probing one of Europe’s most famous nudist colonies for fires blamed on naturist “hardliners” that have destroyed three nightclubs for ’swingers’ at the normally peaceful Cap d’Agde – a mecca for nudists in the south of France.
On 17th October 2008, prior to the November 8th 2008 General Elections, homosexual Labour list M.P. and highly qualified lawyer Charles Chauvel wrote an angry rant on GayNZ.co.nz. His target: the National candidate for New Plymouth Jonathan Young, 50, who on the night won by the very slim majority of 314 votes [beating sitting Labour MP Harry Dynhoven]. By November 21st, with the counting of special votes completed, Young was confirmed as the successful M.P., but with a razor thin majority of only 100 votes
The trial of a former Nelson man fighting for what he says is his right as a Christian to hit his son will not go ahead, after the Crown decided to offer no evidence in the case.
Well we have a new government, but while all the attention has been focusing on John Key and the National party, the latest member of the Green party to make it into parliament has received very little attention. His name is Kevin Hague, and he will be a concern for those of us who care about marriage and family issues in NZ.
Overwhelming opposition to nudity on Kapiti Coast beaches has sparked a flood of submissions on the district council’s draft beach bylaw. Bernie Goedhart, Kapiti Coast District Council’s group manager, said the council had received 369 written submissions. Those included about 900 signatures on three petitions, most of which opposed nudity on the district’s beaches.
Yesterday researchers at the Rand Institute organisation in Chicago had the results of their three-year study on the TV viewing habits of teenagers published in the November issue of Pediatrics. It is the first study to establish a link between teenage exposure to TV programmes featuring sexual promiscuity and highly sexualised content, with high rates of teenage pregnancy in the United States.
The Society submits that Section 17 (“Defined Areas”) of the Draft Beach Bylaw – 2008 – as it stands – should be deleted in its entirety. We challenge the Council to provide to the public any reasoned justification for such a provision based on the four specific examples given.
Deception from pro-abortion campaigners
Deception the name of the game for pro-abortion campaigners and their motley array of ideological bedfellows.
Viewpoint: by Barbara Faithfull
Bitter brickbats are regularly hurled against those who oppose abortion, the so-called “pro-lifers”.