Category Archives: Moral Values

Teens Conservative on Sex & Abortion Issues – Poll Results

Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission headed by Chief Executive Trevor Garrett, has today released the results of a Curia Market Research poll it commissioned into moral issues involving a survey of 600 15-21 year olds nationwide. In its media release, based on an analysis of the poll results, it attacks the views promulgated by three [...]

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Help us get a copy of The Pilgrim’s Progress to prisoners in NZ prisons

What better way to fulfill our Society’s charitable aims of “promoting moral and spiritual welfare” among this sector of society, than to supply a high quality and easy-to-read book to each of our 8,800 prisoners: one that promotes spiritual and moral values!

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Pornography, Public Morality and Consitutional Rights: PUBLIC DISCOURSE

Pornography, Public Morality and Consitutional Rights An essay by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and editorial board member of Public Discourse This essay, published 17 October 2011,  is adapted from remarks he delivered earlier this month at a conference honoring John Finnis at the University of Notre Dame. Copyright 2011 The Witherspoon [...]

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BSA Criticised For Refusing Name Suppression on Complaint

In a media release issued today, Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, has criticised the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) for refusing name suppression sought by a complainant. It says that potential complainants may not speak up and complain about breaches of broadcasting standards as a result of the BSA refusing to grant [...]

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NZ First and Conservatives win on ValueYourVote Election 2011

The NZ First Party led by the Hon. Winston Peters, which romped back into parliament with eight MPS and gained 7% of the vote on election night, scored highly ( second highest at 80%), along with the Conservative Party (90% top “value”) , in a “VALUEYOURVOTE” election guide published by Family First NZ . See www.valueyourvote.org.nz (“One way or [...]

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Erotica Lifestyle Expo – “potential moral impact on the community”

There will be no sex expo in Hamilton under the current council’s watch. All but one Hamilton City councillor at yesterday’s strategy and policy meeting voted against hosting the R18 event at the new Claudelands Event Centre in March, amid accusations of trying to win votes after the V8 debacle cost the city almost $40 million. [...]

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Eden Digital Ltd, former holder of Erotica Lifestyles Expo license: – in liquidation

Eden Digital Ltd, a company that sold and distributed hardcore pornography in New Zealand for over three years and until recently was directed by US investor John Malcolm Carr, was placed into liquidation yesterday, 22 November 2011. The majority of its $434,000 debt is owed to the NZ Inland Revenue Department and Trade creditors are owed $119,000 [...]

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Erotica Lifestyles Expo rejected as unsuitable for Hamilton city

The Hamilton City Council has turned down an approach by the organisers of the Erotica Lifestyles Expo to hold the event at Claudelands next March. [The expo was to be run by Esprit Events Ltd, directed by John Malcolm Carr and owned by CVC Group Ltd - also owned by Mr John M Carr] . The Strategy [...]

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Steve Jobs Changed the World: His Adoption a Gift to the World

STEVE JOBS was a creative genius who changed the world with his visionary work. He was the founder of the revolutionary [US technology] company Apple that has changed the way we communicate forever. He must rank among the greatest industrial innovators the world has seen. His contribution to society is immense. Born in 1955, his destiny and [...]

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Pro-life testimony – celebrating Christian tradition

World renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who has sold more than 70 million albumns worldwide, in an interview with Bryony Gordon of the Telegraph Group, told her that religion has “first place in my life. I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God”. Speaking in pidgin English,via a [...]

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Hamilton Councillors Should Reject Sex Expo – says Family First NZ

Family First NZ, a registered charity with the Charities Commission, has issued a media release today, calling on Hamilton Councillors to refuse an application t0 stage a Sex Expo, promoting hardcore pornography, in council-owned buildings. Family First NZ Media Release 18 November: Hamilton Councillors Should Reject Sex Expo Family First NZ is calling on Hamilton Councillors [...]

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Art shock ‘kills’ PM [John Key] in alley – Sunday Star Times

ARTIST SAM Mahon has painted a picture of John Key as a corpse and made it part of an interactive game on his website called, “Who killed John Key?” Mahon, who calls himself a socialist, says he hopes the image “will simply make people curious”. He wants to “put a bunch of ‘Key crtimes’ on [...]

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Naked Ambition – TVNZ doco

The new director of hardcore porn company Eden Digital Ltd, who has replaced American investor John Malcolm Carr, effective 13 September 2011, is Raymond (“Ray”) Sydney Corben Simpson – a resident of Mt Eden, Auckland (see www.companies.govt.nz). (John M Carr remains sole director of CVC Group Ltd which owns Eden Digital Ltd and he is [...]

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Art and Porn Divide – Waikato Times

by Tracey Cooper. Waikato Times 13 October 2011 Revelations that a New York artist is about to give birth in front of a live audience as part of her new installation The Birth of Baby X makes you wonder. The New York Post has dubbed Marni Kotak “the Preggo Performer”, but the performance artist hopes [...]

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Suicide pact charges ‘barbaric’ says lawyer – Dominion Post

A judge told her to walk away and live, but the lawyer for a woman who escaped serious penalty for her part in a suicide pact in which another woman died says she should not have been charged.  http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5858567/Suicide-pact-charges-barbaric

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Promotion of the “moral welfare” of children and young persons

In 1952 the Minister of Child Welfare in the McLarty government of Western Australia, Arthur Watts, introduced amendments to the Child Welfare Act to widen the definition of “neglect” to include children “living under such conditions as to indicate that the mental, physical or moral welfare of the chid is likely to be in jeopardy” [...]

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Gay Community cannot redefine marriage – Dom Post – Opinion

Marriage about purpose, not rights – Opinion – by Bob McCoskrie – national director of Family First NZ – a registered charity with the Charities Commission – writes: DEBORAH RUSSELL, (“Marriage should be for all”, October 21, Dominion Post) says the state has no business in the marriage game, but then argues that the state [...]

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Promoting moral welfare: reflections on true repentence

With the constant revelations highlighted in the secular media of scandals (sexual infidelities, corruption, financial frauds, etc.) involving professing “Christian” bishops, priests, ministers, pastors and church workers, we must ask ourselves: How can those genuinely seeking to promote the “moral welfare” of society based on a Judaeo-Christian spiritual framework, continue to do so with integrity, [...]

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Bob McCoskrie: Sex education lets down young people

Parents have every right to be upset with the current sex education curriculum in our schools – most of it delivered by Government-funded groups. Judging by the results of the current approach, it has been an utter failure. New Zealand has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the OECD, our STD rates are [...]

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Why saying ‘I do’ is good for families – Bob McCoskrie (Director – Family First NZ)

[On 27 June the Dominion Post published the following article in defence of marriage and the family, by Bob McCoskrie, national director of the registered charity - Family First NZ] On April 29, two billion people worldwide sat in front of their TV screens as they witnessed one of the most public weddings in history [...]

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Deregistration of Porn Teacher Appropriate – Family First

In its Media Release today, the highly respected registered charity Family First NZ has welcomed the decision by the New Zealand Teacher’s Council to deregister a female primary school teacher for her “serious misconduct”  – involving her work as a porn magazine model (See 35 page decision The Complaints Assessment Committee v Rachel Kellie Whitwell. NZTDT 2011/7).  The [...]

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It’s all about the country – not the sleazy politics – Opinion Piece – NZ Herald

“Phil Goff’s political judgment deserted him when he allowed Darren Hughes to be a member of the parliamentary team arguing “politics is a grubby business” for a high-profile earthquake fund-raising debate when he knew the MP was already involved in a behind-the-scenes probe into sexual misconduct allegations….. “Goff’s inability to apply consistent standards has also [...]

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Banned company director faces battle in Court

A banned company director with a chequered business past and who has threatened many New Zealanders with court action, is shortly to face a battle in court over his business activities.

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NZ’s image tarnished by outcome survey on corruption

New Zealand may not be the corruption free zone that the world perceives, with a new survey claiming 3.6 per cent of people admit to paying a bribe in the past 12 months. Commissioned by anti-corruption organisation Transparency International, the survey found 3.6 per cent of New Zealanders said that either they, or someone in [...]

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Bankrupting May Wang “in the interests of justice” – Assoc. Judge Hannah Sargisson

Associate Judge Hannah Sargisson is reported as saying yesterday, that making prominent businesswoman May Wang bankrupt, while not an easy decision, was correct “in the interests of justice“.  But many may be asking: ‘what exactly does this (quoted) phrase mean and how does it relate to the broader concepts of “truth”, “moral absolutes”, “ethical standards”, “public interest” and “community standards” [...]

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NZ White Collar Crime: Two guilty in million-dollar fraud cases

The SPCS contends that some of the more spectacular symptoms that reveal how New Zealand society has lost its moral bearings, include the steady growth in its million dollar white collar crime ‘industry’, involving fraud, bribery, theft, and dishonesty etc. Hitting the headlines with growing regularity it seems, are middle-aged grey-haired balding, or completely bald [...]

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Michael and John Chow: “Gutted” – Sex Palace demolition – “God’s Wrath at Prostitution”?

Two Wellington sex entrepreneurs, whose 125-year old Palace Hotel (also known as Aurora Tavern) in central Auckland was in the process of being transformed into a brothel, are “gutted” that the Auckland City Council has demolished it. Michael and John Chow’s property company, which purchased the Victorian- style building in 2008 for $3.3 million, had hoped to have [...]

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TV sleaze backlash gathers steam [as community groups express concerns]

TV sleaze backlash gathers steam By John Drinnan Sep 17, 2010 Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10674013 Pressure is building on television networks to reduce the amount of sleaze in early prime time. The Broadcasting Standards Authority is expected to announce a decision next week that will set the new tone. There is particular concern about sexual content on [...]

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SPCS congratulates the N.Z.Herald for its weekly "College Herald" articles

Today there are three articles published in the NZ Herald – by secondary school  students decrying media community standards. They are :- “Young girls having their innocence stolen” by Paula McDowell, Year 10, of Tauraroa  Area School. “Overdose of bare flesh corrupts our kids” by Zhan Ye Chen, Year 13, Hamilton Boys’ High School, and [...]

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Steve Crow’s “Boobs on Bikes” – “puerile, dismally witless and calulatedly offensive” – Sunday NZ Herald Editorial Opinion

Writer of the Sunday NZ Herald Editorial suggests “…the [Boobs on Bikes] parade is best treated like the show-off child it so much resembles – by being ignored.” The writer is adamant that the massive billboard of a naked woman Steve, his bother David Bruce Crow of Inglewood and sister Leanne Marie Osborn of Fitzroy, [...]

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