It is time for New Zealand to end gay nversn practic | Shaneel Lal | The Guardian

Contents:

• MPS ATTEND PROTT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• IT IS TIME FOR NEW ZEALAND TO END GAY NVERSN PRACTIC
• 50,000 SIGN AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

MPS ATTEND PROTT AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

"The challenge for all of is to never unrtimate the small impact we n have by challengg homophobia or transphobia when we hear , by tg fay members or iends or lleagu. Photo / Jason DordayLabour Party warned will lose vot of Island people if marriage amendment passedTwo MPS have joed a prott agast same-sex marriage that clud people wh plards likeng gay people to South Auckland yterday, protters rried handwrten plards sayg "lbi/gay py...

IT IS TIME FOR NEW ZEALAND TO END GAY NVERSN PRACTIC

Animals" and sayg any MPs who supported the bill to legalise same-sex marriage were mentally of the MPs, Natnal's Kanwalj Sgh Bakshi, is a member of the Parliamentary mtee that will nsir public submissns for and agast the Marriage Amendment other, Labour's Su'a William S, furiated many his party by warng that they would lose Pacific Island vot if they legalised gay marriage. "Speakg to the Herald on Sunday afterwards, he nced that most Natnal MPs had, fact, supported the Bakshi sat on stage, speaker Alani Tane om the Tonga Development Society berated MPs who supported the bill and referred to the Prime Mister as "John Gay". "That's a personal view, " he said 's Ruth Dyson, who chairs the Parliamentary mtee, said she had no objectn to Bakshi participatg the lleague, S, told the crowd many people were not pable of unrstandg the objectns to gay marriage.

Natnal party lear Judh Colls matas that the party supports a ban on gay nversn practic but is ncerned that the current bill uld crimalise parents who unsel their children and has labelled the proposed bill “anti-parents”. In realy, they are g children to put forward their own won’t e out and say “I am homophobic”, so they are forced to look for other arguments a book that says snak n talk, homosexualy is a s and marriage is tradnally between a man and a woman. Relig lears have weaponised the relatnship queer people have wh God and manipulated to thkg God will hate if they don’t don’t re if you are gay or trans; beg a cent human will suffice.

50,000 SIGN AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

Many homosexuals do not support the ll for same-sex marriage - yet they are certaly not 'homophobic' or 'bigoted' which are lazy labels given to anyone supportg the current fn of marriage. Survey of new MPs by the gay newspaper Pk Triangle dit that the new Parliament is more supportive wh 15 of 23 new MPs supportg both crimalisatn and human rights legislatn, although there is no nsens on the. 75% of gays and lbians a Wellgton survey have been subjected to verbal abe, and 42% have been threatened wh physil vlence on acunt of their sexual orientatn; Mister of Health nfirms that the.

Gay Task Force releas a statement that s lobbyg shows that 65 out of 95 MPs support some form of law reform, although the GTF was officially "unaware" of any bill about to be troduced. Arson attack on the Lbian and Gay Rights Rource Centre, a key event among those which eventually led to the transformatn of s llectns to what we now know as the Lbian and Gay Archiv of New Zealand. The petn, anised by the New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Society, was signed by 75 urageo New Zealanrs (keepg md law reform didn’t occur for another 18 years).

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

” MP Robert Talbot, an opponent, told the Hoe “The petners have stated that homosexuals live fear of beg ught bee of the prent law… It is no doubt rrect, but I believe this fear is necsary if this unnatural activy is to be ntrolled our society. ” Intertgly, MP Mart Flay noted, “I thk is generally accepted, at least medil and scientific circl if not publicly, that every one of has some latent element of homosexualy him, even those who are loust and most vehement their prottatns of revulsn. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori.

The groups’ fluence reach far beyond what their size would suggt, bee the “facts” they dissemate about homosexualy are often amplified by certa policians, other groups and even news anizatns. Lively first emerged as an anti-gay activist when he beme munitns director for the Oregon Cizens Alliance, which was backg that state’s notor Measure 9 vote 1992. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly.

In a 2007 open letter to the Rsian people, he asserted that “homosexualy is a personaly disorr that volv var, often dangero sexual addictns and aggrsive, anti-social impuls. A month after Lively left the untry, a bill was troduced that lled for the ath penalty for certa homosexual acts and prison for those who fail to disclose gays’ inti. Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews.

POPE FRANCIS CONMNS ANTI-GAY LAWS AROUND THE WORLD: 'BEG HOMOSEXUAL IS NOT A CRIME'

In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals.