Dear Maurice Williamson, I hear you are having some troubles in the media at the moment. Apparently there are moral questions swirling around you about honest disclosure, potential abuse of power, unduly influencing the police in favour of a person who donated money to you, and so on. Don’t let judgmental people like Prime Minister John Key […]
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Open Letter to Maurice Williamson
May 2nd, 2014 3 Comments
Tags: Big Gay Rainbow · Maurice Williamson
The “Three Strikes Bill” Moves Forward
January 19th, 2010 2 Comments
I am cautiously optimistic at today’s announcement that the Sentencing and Parole Reform Bill a.k.a. the “Three Strikes Bill” will be moving forward as part of the government’s legislative program. In my post Three Strikes: Proportion and Protection, which was published in the New Zealand Law Students Association publication LEX, I argued that the “apparent […]
Tags: Justice · Public Policy · Punishment · Three Strikes Bill
During, Sherwin & Hutchison on Backstreet Abortion
November 21st, 2009 6 Comments
Recently Madeleine was on a TV panel discussion regarding the issue of abortion and parental notification/consent which will go to air in the next week. During the ensuing dialogue Dr Paul Hutchinson, National Party Member of Parliament for Hunua, specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and former member of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, raised the famous […]
Tags: Abortion · Backstreet Abortion · Feticide · Paul Hutchison · Susan Sherwin · Wayne Facer · Zoe During
Christchurch Event: John Boscawen, David Garrett, Larry Baldock on s59
September 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Recently I attended a public meeting in support of John Boscawen’s Bill to restore the right of parents to use reasonable force for the purposes of correction in the course of parenting removed by the current s59 of the Crimes Act. This Bill will be voted on shortly and for those of us who voted […]
Tags: David Garrett · John Boscawen · John Key · Larry Baldock · Referenda · s59 · Smacking
Boscawen’s Smacking Bill drawn from the Ballot
August 26th, 2009 Comments Off on Boscawen’s Smacking Bill drawn from the Ballot
In impeccable timing, this afternoon I heard the announcement that ACT MP John Boscawen’s Bill to amend Section 59 of the Crimes Act, in line with the Borrows amendment that defined reasonable force, had been drawn from the ballot. However, John Key swiftly announced that National would not back it to Select Committee trotting out […]
Tags: John Boscawen · John Key · Smacking
Dear Mr McCully,
August 26th, 2009 5 Comments
The law criminalises smacking, the best and most faithful reading of the law deems any use of force for the purposes of parental correction criminal; experts in legal interpretation agree on this. The people have objected loudly and all you have done is issue a promise to not enforce the law; a promise that can […]
Tags: National Party · NZ Government · Referendum · Smacking
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Ad Homonym: MandM are not suing the National Party
September 17th, 2014 Comments Off on Ad Homonym: MandM are not suing the National Party
For the record MandM are not suing the New Zealand National Party over their election advertisement. Rumours to the contrary we hereby reject as an ad homonym.
Tags: Eminem · Humour · National Party