Talkback has been disappointing to say the least the last few days on the issue of the Darren Hughes Investigation. It has been filled with the usual Labour supporting socialists, who if Labour put forward a Nazi Appreciation Bill, would call up saying they support it and any who doesn’t is a bigot.
But what has suprised me is the number of usually Conservative (well what passes for Conservative in NZ) callers calling up saying Hughes sexuality doesn’t matter.
Well guess what it does, you have the right to know who you are voting for and whether they will represent you and your issues, not spending time focussing on a minority group. In politics a candidate’s sexuality is important in a way it isn’t for any other job.
pinkofreezone 
“But what has suprised me is the number of usually Conservative (well what passes for Conservative in NZ) callers calling up saying Hughes sexuality doesn’t matter.”
Says a lot about how big a grip political correctness has on the country don’t it.
Pinko, “you have the right to know who you are voting for and whether they will represent you and your issues”.
One minor, tiny point. Nobody has ever voted for Darren Hughes. As a scum List MP, he gets a free ride into Parliament on the coat-tails of the Party Vote.
Only in this last election, he was member of Otaki for the previous two Parliaments…
Not only that, our deputy mayor was all over the news yesterday saying how it was totally unfair that Hughes was being assumed guilty. I’m guessing that she did the media support bit, because having the lesbian mayor do it would maybe have looked a bit off.
For some reason, this is supposed to be the height of tolerance, some sort of level of moral superiority when you say a person’s sexuality doesn’t matter. It’s been drummed in over the years, and yes, I heard the same talkback callers.
Didn’t feel like phoning in myself, once in a blue moon is enough for me.
I wrote a post a long while back around this issue when I accidentally voted for a lesbian mayor (she was no 2 on my list because she promised to put in a dam – how many years later, and no dam in sight?): NZ’s first openly lesbian mayor.
Damn right, Jeremy.
As far as I’m concerned any role where you have input into, or are required to have, high moral standards, and certainly where you influence the moral climate of a nation through laws and policy, should EXCLUDE homosexuals. How can you make moral judgements when your moral compass is so far out of wack to start with?
Professions which should be queer free:
• Politics
• Teachers
• Chief Censors (I’m sure there are more)
My special concern is for children/teenagers who are corrupted by queer teachers, etc pushing the homosexual agenda. And through the “normalisation” of homosexuality the resultant decline in value of the traditional family. There are other influences which have corrupted society, of course, but homosexuality is right up there near the top.
Kris, I’d add police, the military and the judiciary to that list.
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Sorry for the delay, Lucia… I’ve been working 16 hours, Thurs, Fri and today…
I’ll forgive you. I’ll assume it’s because it’s my first comment here that I had to be “approved”.
The hello was also a test (besides a jumping up and down and trying to get attention), just to see if linking was causing the problem. I wouldn’t have minded if you’d deleted it.
I’m new to this blogging game, sometimes the WordPress dashboard looks like a Nuclear control panel to me..!
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I wouldn’t know, I just do blogger. But then, I used to be a computer programmer, so my big beef when I can’t figure out how to do something, is non-intuitive user interfaces. I don’t like Windows Vista, either, I can’t do half the things I used to be able to on the simpler operating systems.