Back in 2005 there was a minor furore when Labour MP Ashraf Choudhary stated he agreed with the Koran’s teaching that people who engaged in homosexual conduct or who committed adultery should be stoned to death. In the media spiral that followed, some commentators pointed out that it was not just Islam that held this [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politicians'
Contra Mundum: Stoning Adulterers
May 2nd, 2011 90 Comments
Tags: Adultery · Ashraf Choudhary · Capital Punishment · Contra Mundum · Gordon Wenham · Investigate Magazine · J J Finkelstein · John Goldingay · Old Testament Ethics · Raymond Westbrook · Walter Kaiser
Madeleine on TV Tonight on Abortion & Parental Consent
December 15th, 2009 No Comments
Part two of the television panel discussion Madeleine participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion airs on Pacific Viewpoint tonight, Wednesday 16 December, on Stratos TV (Freeview 21 & Sky Digital 89) at 8:00 pm. Part one can be viewed online here. We’ll put a link up on this blog to the online video of [...]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai'a
Auckland Public Meeting: Climategate, NIWA and the ETS
December 4th, 2009 23 Comments
In the wake of climategate, the NIWA contraversy and public concern over the effect of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation a public meeting will be held in Auckland on Monday featuring Richard Treadgold, convenor of the Climate Conversation Group, who collated the paper Are we Feeling Warmer Yet? that Matt drew from in NIWA, [...]
Tags: Climate Change · Climategate · ETS · Global Warming · John Boscawen · NIWA · Public Policy · Richard Treadgold
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
Dargaville: Public Meeting on S59
October 10th, 2009 No Comments
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Tags: John Boscawen · John Carter · Larry Baldock · s59 · Smacking
R v Field Sentencing Decision now Online
October 7th, 2009 No Comments
Justice Hansen’s official sentencing notes in the case of The Queen v Phillip Hans Field (a.k.a former Member of Parliament, Taito Phillip Field) are now online and make for some interesting reading. To begin with, as I read through, I could see Field’s supporters angle; he helped a couple of people out, they thanked him [...]
Tags: Phillip Field
Tauranga: Public Meeting on S59
September 29th, 2009 No Comments
John Boscawen is holding a series of Public Meetings in various locations around New Zealand promoting his Bill to amend s59 of the Crimes Act to legalise the use of some types of reasonable force for the purposes of parental correction. Whilst the government would like everyone to think that this debate is over, Boscawen’s [...]
Tags: Bob McCoskrie · John Boscawen · Larry Baldock · s59 · Simon Bridges · Smacking
View Episode 2 Pacific Viewpoint TV Panel on Abortion & Parental Consent Here (Feat. Madeleine)
December 17th, 2009 17 Comments
Episode two of the television panel discussion I participated in on parental consent/notification for abortion is now available for viewing online here at Pacific Viewpoint TV. (Episode one can be viewed here). The show runs for 30 minutes; in this episode I appear as a panel member (last time I was an audience member). Panelists [...]
Tags: Abortion · Bev Adair · Cushla McNabb · MandM on Video · Pacific Viewpoint · Paul Hutchison · Reverend Tavale Matai’a · Setita Millar · Sex Education · Ula Sangyum