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Latest SPCS Newsletter (Nov 2011) now online

You can download the PDF newsletter here.

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John M Carr and the Financial Reporting Act

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Porn Company Connections and Directors John M. Carr and Steve Crow

The Society’s December 2009 Newsletter (Issue 110), among other things, addressed the questions: Who is funding the New Zealand porn industry linked to “porn entrepreneur”  and NZ “Porn King” Stephen (Steve) Peter Crow? (He is now a banned as a company director for four years – see below). Who is company director John Malcolm Carr, an [...]

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Porn Star Quote

From http://manawatu.christian-apologetics.org. Steve Crow is back on the prowl in Palmerston North and Whanganui. When in Whanganui, he got egged, and even seems to admit that it is legal for Joe Public to express himself using such projectiles! “We had one idiot throw some eggs at me,” Crow told reporters afterwards. “He did a good [...]

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Submission to Secretary 15 May 2008 re The Peaceful Pill Handbook Revised Int’l Edition

SPCS Submission to Secretary of Internal Affairs dated 15 May 2008: Application seeking leave to have the classification of The Peaceful Pill Handbook (New Revised International Edition), co-authored by Dr Philip Nitschke, reclassified by the Film and Literature Board of Review.

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Dr William Lane Craig: Christianity versus Scientific Naturalism

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Dr William Lane Craig: If God does not exist, do objective moral values exist?

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology (La Mirada, California). At the age of sixteen, Dr. Craig first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. Dr. Craig pursued his undergraduate studies at Wheaton College (B.A. 1971) and graduate studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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The term ‘Homophobia’: Its Origins and Meanings, and its uses in Homosexual Agenda

A look at the term ‘homophobia’, its origin and meanings, and its uses in the campaign to forward the homosexual agenda, particularly in schools. The writer wishes to state at the outset that he finds taunts like ‘faggot’, ‘queer’ and ‘poofter’ totally unacceptable and can see no justification whatever in so-called gay-bashing, verbal or physical. [...]

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Storm as lesbian couple sue over unwarranted twin

Australia (Reuters News Report) A LESBIAN couple in Australia are suing their doctor after they had twin girls from an in-vitro fertilisation procedure when they wanted only one child. The two women are seeking more than $400,000 (NZ$470,000) in damages to help pay for the cost of raising the second child, including private school fees. [...]

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Promoting Marriage and the Family

Marriage and the Family (With selected Bibliography and Endnotes). The Society’s Objects, taken from Section 2 of its Constitution, include: (a) To encourage self-respect and the dignity of the human person made in the image of God. (b) To promote recognition of the sanctity of human life and its preservation in all stages. (c) To [...]

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‘Fear of prejudice’ let gay carers abuse boys

News Item UK Telegraph 06 September 2007 A council’s political correctness allowed a pair of homosexual foster parents to sexually abuse children in their care, a report has concluded. Managers and social workers were reluctant to investigate Craig Faunch and Ian Wathey for fear of being accused of prejudice. Instead, they were viewed as "trophy [...]

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Society Raises Concerns Over Dissemination of Objectionable Internet Content

Media Release 13/08/07 On Thursday night last week The Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced a A$189 million package to deal with the growing problems of internet porn and dissemination of, and availability of, objectionable content to minors via Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The tough measures adopted by the Howard government to stamp out two [...]

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Minister of Justice Hon Mark Burton On Objectionable Internet Content

Copy of Correspondence between Minister of Justice Hon. Mark Burton and Society On 6 September 2007 the Minister replied to the Society’s email dated 1 June 2007 (copied below) requesting basic information on steps taken by the government to control the tidal wave of objectionable content (hard core pornography, gratuitous sexual violence and graphic violence [...]

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The Empresses’ new clothes or Smacking: Those Kiwis must be crazy!

By Ruby Harrold-Claesson Attorney-at-Law in Gothenburg, Sweden. President of the NCHR (www.nkmr.org) One year ago, I travelled 36 hours from Gothenburg, Sweden to Auckland at the invitation of the Section 59 Coalition. I came to testify at the Parliamentary hearing on the private member’s Bill that proposed a repeal of Section 59 of the Crimes [...]

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Society Strongly Endorses Film "Amazing Grace"

BEHIND THE SONG YOU LOVE, IS A STORY YOU WILL NEVER FORGET AMAZING GRACE, the story of William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833) was released in New Zealand cinemas on July 19, 2007. Much anticipation and excitement within the Christian community surrounded the release of this remarkable film. It has received glowing reviews (see below). AMAZING [...]

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Public Address: Lessons From the Life of William Wilberforce (1759 – 1833)

Public Address: Friday Evening 15 June, 2007 Delivered by Society Executive Director David Lane The Grand Hall at Parliament, Parliament Buildings, Wellington “Let us Now Praise Famous Men” Ecclesiasticus 44:1 This year marks the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and all its colonies. 200 years ago on the 25th March [...]

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How pornography is destroying marriages and families

The Sydney Morning Herald spent two months charting a social phenomenon that is poisoning couples and destroying families. Adele Horin reports: The internet has brought an explosion of pornography into the home and workplace of virtually every Australian. Just a mouse-click away are images that exceed the bounds of fantasy or imagination. In 1961 the [...]

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Censors and Banned Porn Imports

Media Report 7 June The Society’s investigations have determined that over a two year period before a 49-year old prominent Wellington town planner, appeared on 22 March 2007 before Wellington District Court Judge Stephen Harrop to face charges over the importation of 11 “objectionable” publications; he had embarked on a hugely expensive exercise, aided by [...]

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Prosecuting Internet Porn Purchases

Press Release 31 May The Society commends Wellington District Court Judge Stephen Harrop for upholding the law by charging a “prominent Wellington town planner” Robert John Schofield, 49, for importing by post via the internet, DVDs that were classified “objectionable” (Dominion Post 31/05). That decision issued on 22 March was upheld in the High Court [...]

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How Caregivers will be Criminalised Under Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking’ Bill

Press Release 27 April 2007 If Green MP Sue Bradford’s ‘anti-smacking bill’ is passed into law, increasing numbers of childcare workers (e.g. creche and kindergarten workers) and those in the place of parents (e.g. grandparents, foster parents and guardians) will be charged with criminal assault by the police for lightly smacking children for “correction” purposes [...]

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MPS Fail to address Family Planning Association disaster

Press Release 5 April 2007 The results of the Youth Sexual Health report that was made public yesterday shows that years of tax-payer funded sex education classes organised by the Family Planning Association (FPA) and other like-minded groups have utterly failed to achieve any significant reduction in the high rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually [...]

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Society Wants Obscene ‘Police Baton’ Sex Video Approved by Chief Censor, Banned

‘Ban baton sex video’ Sunday Star-Times 11 March 2007, A4 A COMMUNITY standards lobby group is asking for a porn video featuring police batons used as “sex toys” to be banned in light of public outrage over historic allegations against police officers. The Society for Promotion of Community Standards has applied for leave from the [...]

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Legal Opinion by QC Shows How Good Parents Will Be Criminalised by Bradford’s anti-smacking Bill

United Future MP Gordon Copeland has recently received a legal opinion he commissioned from Peter McKenzie QC, dealing with the effect of Green MP Sue Bradford’s private member’s bill, on the actions of parents who remove their kids using “reasonable force”, against their will, to “time-out zones” for disruptive and defiant behaviour. He concluded that [...]

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Massacre of Innocence DVD

This 2002 follow up DVD to the award-winning video, “Teen Sex: Challenge and Decision,” explores a variety of myths related to teen sex and sexually transmitted diseases. Covering timely issues such as sex and cyberspace, meeting internet contacts, and sexual attitudes in the media, this video uses medical facts and real life stories to challenge [...]

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Teen Sex: Reality Strikes Back DVD

This 2002 follow up DVD to the award-winning video, “Teen Sex: Challenge and Decision,” explores a variety of myths related to teen sex and sexually transmitted diseases. Covering timely issues such as sex and cyberspace, meeting internet contacts, and sexual attitudes in the media, this video uses medical facts and real life stories to challenge [...]

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Silent Screams DVD

The most important pro-life video in the history of legalized abortion. Provides irrefutable evidence of the humanity of the unborn. Using an ultra-sound screen, former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson narrates what happens during a first trimester abortion. Ages 12 and up. Buy here. Amazon here.

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Porn: Addictive, Progressive, Deadly DVD

Thanks to the Internet and cable TV, pornography comes right to our homes, claiming new victims daily. In this eye-opening release, discover how quickly an addiction to porn can turn destructive and hear how it escalated Bundy’s desire for increasingly vile and violent images to maintain the same “thrill.” Buy here.

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