Marriages are a matter of significant public concern, as the record of almost every culture shows. If it weren’t for the fact that sexual intercourse between a man and a woman leads to children and brings with it a further obligation to care for those children, the notion of marriage would probably never have existed, and the state would not have been interested in it. The state - which did not invent marriage - has no authority to re-invent it.
IAN BASSETT – Read the legal opinions obtained by Family First NZ from Barrister Ian Bassett which describe the effects of Louisa Wall’s Marriage Amendment Act Bill, if it is enacted.
BOB McCOSKRIE – FAMILY FIRST NZ: Marriages are a matter of significant public concern, as the record of almost every culture shows. If it weren’t for the fact that sexual intercourse between a man and a woman leads to children and…
STANLEY KURTZ – THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Among the likeliest effects of gay marriage is to take us down a slippery slope to legalized polygamy and “polyamory” (group marriage). Marriage will be transformed into a variety of relationship contracts, linking two, three, or more individuals…
RICHARD WAGHORN – Marriage is vital as a framework within which children can be brought up by a man and woman. Not all marriages, of course, involve child-raising. And there are also, for that matter, same-sex couples already raising children. But the reality is that marriages tend towards child-raising and same-sex partnerships do not.
Let us not forget the point of what marriage is for
MIRANDA DEVINE: One of the consequences of remaking marriage to include gays is that it will be transformed from an institution centred around the wellbeing of children to one centred on the self-fulfillment of adults.
ONE News 19 May 2013 The advertising watchdog has thrown out complaints made against anti-gay marriage advertisements published by Family First. The advertisements titled “21 great reasons to keep marriage as is” and “If you vote to change ‘marriage’ we will vote to change you” were published in the lead up to the passing of Continue Reading
Media Release 19 May 2013 The advertising watchdog has poured cold water on a campaign of complaints against two of Family First’s information sheets during the recent marriage debate. Complainant A Charman said that the “21 great reasons to keep marriage as is” was ‘extraordinarily offensive’, ‘inflammatory, largely incorrect and was filled with biases’. But Continue Reading