You're terrible, Muriel!
I'm al little upset at Muriel Newman's latest newsletter. Muriel has received documents, released under the Official Information Act, that detail how a working group has been set up at the Ministry of Social Development to promote community acceptance of gay, lesbian, Bisexual and transgender people.
Muriel slams this MSD group - and I agree. It's not the job of government to promote any particular lifestyle. Government's duty is to allow anyone who cases no harm to make their own choices.
But where Muriel and I would disagree is that I don't see any duty on government to promote same-sex marriages over any other relationship. ACT is all about supporting the right to live without the government interfering in our lives. This is an excerpt from ACT's constitution:
3.1 The principal object of the Party is to promote an open, progressive and benevolent society in which individual New Zealanders are free to achieve their full potential. To this end the Party upholds the following principles:
(a) that individuals are the rightful owners of their own lives and therefore have inherent rights and responsibilities; and
(b) that the proper purpose of government is to protect such rights and not to assume such responsibilities.
So Muriel's belief in the government promoting marriage is just as wrong as the current governments belief in promoting acceptance of homosexuality.
Muriel slams this MSD group - and I agree. It's not the job of government to promote any particular lifestyle. Government's duty is to allow anyone who cases no harm to make their own choices.
But where Muriel and I would disagree is that I don't see any duty on government to promote same-sex marriages over any other relationship. ACT is all about supporting the right to live without the government interfering in our lives. This is an excerpt from ACT's constitution:
3.1 The principal object of the Party is to promote an open, progressive and benevolent society in which individual New Zealanders are free to achieve their full potential. To this end the Party upholds the following principles:
(a) that individuals are the rightful owners of their own lives and therefore have inherent rights and responsibilities; and
(b) that the proper purpose of government is to protect such rights and not to assume such responsibilities.
So Muriel's belief in the government promoting marriage is just as wrong as the current governments belief in promoting acceptance of homosexuality.
posted by Michael at
12:42 PM
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