SPCS Objectives from its Constitution – Incorporated Society No. 217833

2. The objects for which the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc. (“SPCS”) is established are:

(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 promote wholesome personal values, including strong family life and the benefits of lasting marriage as the foundation for stable communities.

(d) To focus attention on the harmful nature and consequences of sexual promiscuity, obscenity, pornography, violence, fraud, dishonesty in business, exploitation, abuse of alcohol and drugs, and other forms of moral corruption.

(e) To foster public awareness of the benefits to social, economic and moral welfare of the maintenance and promotion of good community standards, including supporting enforcement agencies to uphold such standards as set out in law and encourage constructive debate and discussion in this area.

(f) To support responsible freedom of expression which does not injure the public good by degrading, dehumanising or demeaning individuals or classes of people.

(g) To raise money that will be used, under the control of the executive, to promote the moral and spiritual welfare of sectors of society that need special help and to advance the charitable objects of the Society (a) to (f).

“Extremely sexually promiscuous” HIV-infected man recruited and infected lovers

Radio New Zealand Checkpoint reported last night that 57 people turned up at just one of a number of sexual health clinics in the country reporting that they had had sexual relations with an HIV-positive man who media were reporting at that time was facing 28 charges of deliberately infecting people with the HIV virus. They were just some of those very keen to be tested for the HIV-virus, having had unprotected sex with this “extremely sexually promiscuous man” … Mr Glen Richard Albert Mills (deceased).

The Dominion Post reported today that an inquest into the jail-cell death of the same man accused of deliberately infecting numerous lovers with HIV has been told he used text messages and internet dating sites to recruit partners, and was on antidepressant medication at the time he died. [Read more...]

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 his lawyer, Mr Greg King, to use the Film and Literature Board of Review and the Chief Censor’s Office to help him overturn the charges.  Robert John Schofield attempted unsuccessfully to have the classification of the publications downgraded from “objectionable” to “age restricted” (R18) so he could avoid conviction. The Society has applied under the Official Information Act to the Board Secretary and the Chief Censor’s Office to obtain copies of all the classification decisions issued with respect to these publications.

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