See presentation of 2nd petition. It’s just gone online.
By admin | May 16, 2008
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UPDATE - Don’t get mad - get even….even more signatures!
By admin | May 16, 2008
Hi Barbara,
UPDATE - Don’t get mad - get even..
even more signatures!
Petition 1. “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in NZ”
Due date for required signatures - June 29th
How many more signatures are needed - only 15,000
Reason? - because of the potential invalidating of signatures, we would like to submit 20,000 more signatures than are needed - to avoid any doubt!!!
Petition 2. “Should the government give urgent priority to understanding and addressing the wider causes of family breakdown, family violence and child abuse in NZ”
Although this petition has now expired (and is currently being counted), it is still worth asking people to sign the 2nd petition while they sign the first petition. The number of signatures gained is a statement in itself.
Thanks for your efforts on this. We have also commissioned Research on attitudes towards the anti-smacking law one year on from when it passed. Initial results make VERY interesting reading. More details to come next week.
Kind regards
Bob McCoskrie
National Director
www.familyfirst.org.nz | About us | Media Centre | Contact Us | Support Us |
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Kaa wrong on smacking
By admin | May 15, 2008
Kaa wrong on smacking
http://www.thefamilyparty.org.nz/conference.php
15 May 2008. Family Party leader Richard Lewis has expressed disagreement with Dr Hone Kaa’s call for Maori to maintain opposition to smacking.
Mr Lewis says Dr Kaa’s description of all smacking as ‘violence against children’ is misleading and unhelpful towards the real issues of abuse.
“It’s disappointing when Maori leaders buy into the same rhetoric as politicians like Sue Bradford who brand all parents who smack their children as child abusers. We are all very concerned about child abuse. But there is a world of difference between responsible corrective discipline and the bash,” said Mr Lewis.
Dr Kaa has called a cross-party meeting with Maori politicians next week to talk about strategies to reduce Maori Child Abuse. Maintaining the repeal of Section 59 is high on the agenda for the hui.
“I wonder if Dr Kaa is going to invite contribution from Maori like myself who care deeply about child abuse but who don’t agree with his position on the smacking issue. Or is he merely propping up the flawed position of the Labour-led Government that most New Zealanders, including many Maori, happen to disagree with,” he added.
The Family Party will be holding a conference in Mangere this Saturday and will be signing up people to the petition calling for a referendum on the issue. The Family Party is calling for Section 59 of the Crimes Act to be reinstated.
Conference details: http://www.thefamilyparty.org.nz/conference.php
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FI-380-For Canterbury readers - Collecting Signatures: 6 weeks to go!
By admin | May 15, 2008
From: Andy Moore [mailto:chch@unityforliberty.net.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:52 p.m.
Subject: Collecting Signatures: 6 weeks to go!
Hi all,
Time to get revved up again for another six weeks of collecting signatures for the petition asking…
“should a smack as a part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
…as we approach our target number of 380,000 signatures. (updated signature count here)
Please note Sunday 1 June in your diaries. The SBS Marathon is held on Sunday, and we are going to run at least five tables at various locations, as there will be thousands of spectators keen to sign our petition. More details on this closer to the date.
This Saturday, 17 May, we are going to kick off the Saturday Tables again. Please get back to me asap if you are able to help out this Saturday. We will be running tables at the Netball Courts in Hagley Park (we can have as many as four tables here), and at the corner of Cashel St and Colombo St (up to 3 tables around this location). With a group of 15 of us, I am convinced that we can pull in 1,000 signatures on this Saturday alone. With six weeks to go, and 30,000 signatures to collect, it is absolutely crucial that the Christchurch Team gets into action to help bring this baby home.
The Great Signature Challenge. From today (14 May) until when the signatures for the petition are delivered to Parliament (before 29 June), the team to collect the most signatures in one go (for instance, at an event) will take home the prize. Sources tell me that this prize will be pretty darn good. It goes without saying that we cannot allow Auckland to beat us, so we need some blood, sweat and tears out of the Christchurch Team! 
Unity for Liberty. You are encouraged to visit the Unity for Liberty website, http://unityforliberty.net.nz/ and register to recieve email updates.
Please pass this email on to your contacts in Christchurch.
I can’t repeat this enough… “All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing” (Edmund Burke 1729-1797)
Kind Regards,
Andy Moore - ChCh Coordinator, Unity for Liberty
www.equipbiz.co.nz | phone: 021 1140 751
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FI379-U4L-It’s all happening
By admin | May 15, 2008
From: Craig Hill [mailto:craighill@maxnet.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:20 PM
Subject: U4L; It’s all happening
Hi All,
Wonderful news, the grand total has now grown to 350,023 signatures and rising.
Action stations please;
We have booked a stall at the Waikato Winter Show, as seen on tv. The show runs from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th with an expected turnover of 100,000 people. If anyone is available on these days could you please contact myself by emailing craig@unityforliberty.net.nz or phone me on 021 746 113. I intend to be there both Friday and Saturday, love to meet with you.
U4L will soon be sending out a collectible cartoon series via email, we are hoping for recipients to pass this email on to others as to generate more signatures. All politicians will also be receiving a copy, let’s not let them forget their abuse of our democracy. NB The web site will be updated with the cartoons over the next few days
Let’s put the wrongs right, demand that our democracy be returned with the authority of the parent intact.
Keep up the good work,
Regards
Craig Hill
021746113
http://www.unityforliberty.net.nz
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing” (Edmund Burke 1729-1797)
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FI-378-U4L-Collectible Cartoon No 1
By admin | May 15, 2008
From: Craig Hill [mailto:craighill@maxnet.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:52 PM
Subject: ***SPAM*** U4L; Collectible Cartoon No 1
Unity for Liberty is running a series of cartoons, depicting the predicted reactions towards the probable Citizens Initiated Referendum by all the major players associated with the passing of the Anti-Smacking Law.
Why The Referendum?
The New Zealand public need to be heard. Download petition here, click it, sign it, post it.
Don’t Forget The History!!!
The Majority of our Political Leaders refused to listen to the overwhelming majority of the population that was against the passing of the anti-smacking law in every possible poll.
Our Two Major Party Leaders forced their MPs to vote according to party lines instead of their own consciences.
DO YOU TRUST THESE PEOPLE?
Remember both Helen Clark and John Key whipped their parties to pass this law, if it were a true conscience vote the anti smacking bill would never have become law.
http://dontvotelabourcartoons.com/gallery/cartoon22.jpg
Regards,
Craig Hill
P.S. This may be our last chance to use democratic process to bring accountability to our politicians, we need your signature now. Thank you
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Waikato Winter Show 23-25 May 2008
By admin | May 14, 2008
Action stations please;
We have booked a stall at the Waikato Winter Show, as seen on tv. The show runs from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th with an expected turnover of 100,000 people. If anyone is available on these days could you please contact myself by emailing craig@unityforliberty.net.nz or phone me on 021 746 113. I intend to be there both Friday and Saturday, love to meet with you.
Regards
Craig Hill
021746113
http://www.unityforliberty.net.nz
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Repeal Section 59 - the Facebook Group
By admin | May 14, 2008
Repeal Section 59 - the Facebook Group
Just a quick note. A Facebook Group has been started, calling for the repeal of Section 59.
“Kiwis don’t want Sue Bradford’s Anti-Smacking Law. Join this group to show your support for a repeal of this new anti-parental-authority law.”
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Time for a new approach on addressing family breakdown, family violence and child abuse.
By admin | May 14, 2008
Time for a new approach on addressing family breakdown, family violence and child abuse.
Presented by Larry Baldock, Kiwi Party Leader, at press conference 1.15pm May 14, 2008
“Today marks the end of 14 months of collecting signatures for a CIR petition in my name to request a referendum on the question, ‘should the Government give urgent priority to understanding and addressing the wider causes of family breakdown, family violence and child abuse in New Zealand?’ The collection of signatures for Sheryl Savill’s petition, which is a separate question entirely, is ongoing and we have now collected approx 350,000 for that petition. I will resubmit those when we are sure we have sufficient to cross the hurdle of the audit process.
Today I will deliver approx 300,000 signatures to the Clerk of the House of Representatives for my petition and we will now await (once again) a seemingly bizarre audit process to be carried out according to the CIR Act 1993.
Whatever the outcome of this process, 300,000 signatures represent a huge response from the people of New Zealand who have consistently expressed their concern at our deplorable child abuse and family violence statistics.
After nearly nine years of a Government lead by Helen Clark and supported entirely or in part by Jim Anderton, Jeannette Fitzsimons, Peter Dunne and Winston Peters, there is not a single statistic that can be referred to that shows their ‘lame duck policies’ have worked. This is despite huge tax surpluses and a strong economy.
A clear example of this is that we now have the Minister of Social Development openly acknowledging her own department’s report that reveals the poor are worse off under a Labour Government than after the ‘mother of all budgets’ in the 90’s.
This petition and these signatures are calling for greater action on understanding and then addressing the wider causes of family breakdown, family violence and child abuse.
We begin our question with the call to “understand’, as that is the first step to solving any problem. Clearly this Government does not have any understanding of the real causes of our problems and has simply continued to keep bringing so many ‘ambulance at the bottom of the cliff’ type responses that there is no parking space left. What we really need are some solid fences constructed at the top.
Our social statistics reveal such systemic problems within our society that the Kiwi Party believes the Government should urgently appoint an independent Royal Commission to respond to this.
Surely it is time to look for new answers and solutions?
Anti-smacking advocate and nanny state zealot Sue Bradford, now admits (contrary to her earlier claims) that her Anti Smacking Bill was never intended to address the causes of child abuse and reduce our awful statistics for child maltreatment deaths.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense now acknowledges that with 7 child deaths in less than a year, Bradford’s Bill is a feel-good fantasy dressed up as a complete waste of time, unless of course Bradford’s real plan was to deconstruct the traditional family unit.”
Contact
Larry Baldock
021864833
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Study Shows Child Abuse Rate Affected by Family Structure
By admin | May 14, 2008
MEDIA RELEASE
9 May 2008
Study Shows Child Abuse Rate Affected by Family Structure
Australian research shows that children under five living with a non-biological or step-parent are up to 77 times more likely to die from a violence-related injury than those living with their biological families.
A review by Deakin University of more than 1000 coroners’ cases between 2000 and 2003 found that stepchildren are at dramatically raised risk of being victims of fatal accidents, as well as physical abuse and homicide.
Children living with single mothers were no more likely to die from either violent or unintentional causes than those in biological families. But children living with neither biological parent, such as foster children and state wards, faced up to a 102 times greater risk of death.
Study author and psychologist Greg Tooley said the study appeared to back up theories that parents were biologically driven to be extremely protective of their offspring, less so than step-parents - also known as the ‘Cinderella Effect’.
He also said that despite sensitivities over the issue, the findings should not be ignored and child-welfare agencies needed to take it into account when assessing at-risk cases.
“This research is very relevant to the NZ setting as we seek to tackle our unacceptable rate of child abuse,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ. “It doesn’t mean that every step-parent is a child abuser but it does highlight potential risk factors.”
“The misguided solution to child abuse was banning smacking, but this research reiterates what UNICEF, CYF and other international research has highlighted – that the likelihood of a child being injured or killed is associated with drug and alcohol abuse and family breakdown and structure.”
Family First NZ has a 5-point strategy to deal with the real causes of child abuse. www.stoptheabuse.org.nz
ENDS
For More Information and Media Interviews, contact Family First:
Bob McCoskrie JP - National Director
Tel. 09 261 2426 | Mob. 027 55 555 42
FULL RESEARCH:
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Germany-Parents losing custody for homeschooling children
By admin | May 13, 2008
http://christiannewsbulletin.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/parents-losing-custody-for-homeschooling-kids/
Parents losing custody for homeschooling children
A German couple already being threatened with jail time because they have been homeschooling their children say their nation has taken a turn for the worse, with a new federal law that gives family courts the authority to take custody of children “as soon as there is a suspicion of child abuse,” which is how that nation’s courts have defined homeschooling.“The new law is seen as a logical step in carving up family rights after a federal court had decided that homeschooling was an abuse of custody,” said a letter from Jurgen Dudek to officials with the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association, an international advocacy organization in support of homeschooling.
It was about a year ago when WND reported a prosecutor in the German state of Hesse was seeking three-month prison terms for the Jurgen Dudek and his wife, Rosemarie, the parents of six children, even after they already had paid a series of fines.
Officials with Netzwork-Bildungsfreiheit, a German homeschool advocacy group, said the prosecutor, unsatisfied with the fines, wanted 90-day terms in custody for the parents.
The latest letter from the family described the new law as granting various local social services agencies vast new powers, especially the “Jugendamt” offices, which are responsible for looking into situations if there are allegations of “child abuse.”
“They have in effect been authorized to give expert evidence in court which the family judge has to follow … The withdrawal of parental custody as one of the methods for punishing ‘uncooperative’ parents thus is made even easier,” the letter said.
In recent years Germany has established a reputation for cracking down on parents who object, for reasons ranging from religious to social, to that nation’s public school indoctrination of their children.
WND has reported several times on custody battles, children being taken into custody, and families even fleeing Germany because of the situation.
Now comes the new law that, according to Dudek’s letter, has, “understandably, led to a kind of panic among the homeschool community in a country where ever since Hitler’s times it has been against the law to educate your offspring completely without the state.”
Mike Donnelly, a lawyer for the HSLDA who has worked on situations that have developed in Germany, said it’s not exactly clear how the law will affect the situation.
However, “the fact that Germany’s Federal Government would pass a law taking away due process when it comes to taking children away from their parents just because they are not attending school points to the sheer hostility of the German government towards homeschooling,” he told WND.
“The German Jugendamt system is under increasing scrutiny by the European Union as well as other international organizations because of the sheer numbers of custody cases in proportion to actual substantiated abuse and in relation to the overall population,” he said. “For homeschoolers, the Jugendamt represents the tip of the spear in the government’s persecution of parents who simply wish to educate their children privately at home – a freedom protected by governments of virtually all free societies.”
He said as a result of the combination of last year’s German court ruling that it is an abuse of parental rights to keep children away from public schools and the new plan, “the Jugendamt is now the most powerful and frightening force in repressing homeschooling in Germany.
“Families in Germany are being put under increasing pressure to stop homeschooling or face losing custody of their children just because they homeschool – instead many families flee the country. This reprehensible behavior violates the natural rights of parents and children and must be opposed by all free societies,” he said.
Practical Homeschool Magazine has noted one of the first acts by Hitler when he moved into power was to create the governmental Ministry of Education and give it control of all schools, and school-related issues.
In 1937, the dictator said, “The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled. This Reich stands, and it is building itself up for the future, upon its youth. And this new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”
Dudek told the HSLDA that, “Without wanting to overdramatize things this move by the justice ministry … can be compared to Hitler’s law of empowerment … That law gave him a free hand to turn Germany into the dictatorship it has become so ‘famous’ for.”
“Homeschoolers will be among the first to feel the wrath of our quasi-GESTAPO for the young: there is an explicit paragraph in the law dealing with the Jugendamt’s duty to enforce ’schulpflicht,’ the ‘punishment’ for [homeschooling] automatically being the withdrawal of parental custody,” he wrote.
He said although some officials had not yet signed the law, it appeared unstoppable.
In his own family’s case, he must appear in court on June 18.
One of the higher-profile cases on which WND has reported was that of a teen who was taken by police to the psychiatric ward because she was homeschooled.
The courts ruled it was appropriate for a judge to order police officers to take Melissa Busekros, 15 at the time, into custody during January 2007.
Officials later declined to re-arrest after she simply fled state custody and returned to her family.
Wolfgang Drautz, consul general for the Federal Republic of Germany, has commented on the issue on a blog, noting the government “has a legitimate interest in countering the rise of parallel societies that are based on religion….”
Drautz said schools teach socialization, and as WND reported, that is important, as evident in the government’s response when a German family wrote objecting to police officers picking their child up at home and delivering him to a public school.
“The minister of education does not share your attitudes toward so-called homeschooling,” said a government letter. “… You complain about the forced school escort of primary school children by the responsible local police officers. … In order to avoid this in future, the education authority is in conversation with the affected family in order to look for possibilities to bring the religious convictions of the family into line with the unalterable school attendance requirement.”
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Don’t miss Larry Baldock in Ashburton 20 May 2008
By admin | May 13, 2008
ASHBURTON - 20 May 2008
Tuesday May 20
Click here for other meetings in the South Island in May 2008:
http://familyintegrity.org.nz/2008/south-island-road-trip/
Greymouth - Kaikura - Blenheim - Nelson
If you haven’t already signed Larry Baldock and Sheryl Savill’s petitions, download the petition below, print it, sign them and post it to the address included - simple.
also, you can be gathering signatures for the petition. Download and print it and get your family, friends, neigbours and work mates to sign it!
http://unityforliberty.net.nz/petition.html
or here:
Download the petition + FaQ (3 pages)
http://unityforliberty.net.nz/documents/LarryBaldockPetition_May.pdf
Download the petition only (1 page)
http://unityforliberty.net.nz/documents/CirPetition.pdf
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One smacking-related complaint per week-unnecessary
By admin | May 11, 2008
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1774257
…..a police report in December 2007 suggested police were investigating one smacking-related complaint on average per week nationwide.
This is one family each week too many.
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Just a quick reminder…The Petition
By admin | May 8, 2008
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09 May 2008 |
Just a quick reminder…
Please send in any petition forms you have so far (even half completed forms)
by MONDAY i.e. post Saturday / courier Monday after weekend collecting
CIR Petition
P.O.Box 9228
Tauranga
DOWNLOAD PETITION FORMS CLICK HERE
We want to hear your story
Have you been reported, investigated by CYF or the Police, threatened, or had difficulties with your role as a parent as a result of the anti-smacking law?
Email us admin@familyfirst.org.nz
(your letter will be treated with the upmost confidence)
READ what has happened to other families as a result of the law change
DON’T GET MAD - GET EVEN…
EVEN MORE SIGNATURES!
www.familyfirst.org.nz | About us | Media Centre | Contact Us | Support Us |
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Don’t miss Larry Baldock in Timaru 11 May 2008 at 7:30pm
By admin | May 8, 2008
TIMARU - 11 May
Sunday 7.30pm
May 11
New Life Centre
Click here for other meetings in the South Island in May 2008:
http://familyintegrity.org.nz/2008/south-island-road-trip/
Ashburton - Greymouth - Kaikura - Blenheim - Nelson
If you haven’t already signed Larry Baldock and Sheryl Savill’s petitions, download the petition below, print it, sign them and post it to the address included - simple.
also, you can be gathering signatures for the petition. Download and print it and get your family, friends, neigbours and work mates to sign it!
http://unityforliberty.net.nz/petition.html
or here:
Download the petition + FaQ (3 pages)
http://unityforliberty.net.nz/documents/LarryBaldockPetition_May.pdf
Download the petition only (1 page)
http://unityforliberty.net.nz/documents/CirPetition.pdf
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FI-377-U4L; Temperatures rising
By admin | May 8, 2008
8 May 2008 - Family Integrity #377 — U4L; Temperatures rising
—–Original Message—–
From: Craig Hill [mailto:craighill@maxnet.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:37 PM
Subject: U4L; Temperatures rising
Hi All,
Remember; DON’T GET MAD, GET EVEN…..EVEN MORE SIGNATURES!!!!!!
With temperatures rising, the signature gauge is starting to pump. It will be updated to 347,803 shortly.
The gauge sat at 340,000 for a long time, this figure represented the first amount sent to parliament, then that total was revised by government statisticians to 324,000.
So now for the good news, we have made up the difference and now its climbing.
Also, for your information, the petition page on our web site is the highest exit page by miles.
NB There has been a little confusion concerning the birth date request, we encourage you to encourage people to complete that part of the petition, just explain that it helps the scrutiny process in our favor. However if anyone feels uncomfortable, don’t worry, just ask that all details be legible.
Keep up the good work, “Let’s bring this puppy home.”
Many thanks
Craig Hill
021 746 113
http://www.unityforliberty.net.nz
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing (Edmund Burke 1728-1797)
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Larry Baldock in Ranfurly 8 May 2008 7:30pm
By admin | May 7, 2008
RANFURLY - 8 May
Thursday 7.30pm
May 8
En Hakkore
Click here for other meetings in the South Island in May 2008:
http://familyintegrity.org.nz/2008/south-island-road-trip/
Timaru - Ashburton - Greymouth - Kaikura - Blenheim - Nelson
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FI-376-Why I don’t eat at…
By admin | May 7, 2008
7 May 2008 - Family Integrity #376 — Why I don’t eat at…
Dear Friends,
Pasted below is another reason I don’t go to McDonalds, apart from the fact they are too expensive and are mindless cultural imperialists (that is, masters of banality).
(Sadly Ford motor company and DisneyWorld are also promoting the same thing.)
Train up our children in the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not depart from it. — Prov 22:6
Craig Smith
National Director
Family Integrity
PO Box 9064
Palmerston North
New Zealand
Ph: (06) 357-4399
Fax: (06) 357-4389
Family.Integrity@xtra.co.nz
www.FamilyIntegrity.org.nz
http://familyintegrity.blogspot.com/
Our Home….Our Castle
From the Family Research Council, www.frc.org
McDonald’s is funding homosexual activism–and I’m NOT lovin’ it!
May 5, 2008 |
Apparently, serving McFlurries and Big Macs to the public is no longer enough to satisfy the hunger of McDonald’s to make a cultural impact on the United States. Sadly, McDonald’s is now financing attacks on marriage and the family as a new Corporate Partner of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC).
The NGLCC promotes businesses owned by homosexuals, but it also pushes the homosexual political agenda in statehouses, courthouses, and the halls of Congress. Thought crime (”hate crime”) laws, homosexual and transgender “civil rights” preferences, and domestic partner benefits are top-priority issues of the NGLCC.
Richard Ellis, Vice President of Communications for McDonald’s, was recently named to the Board of Directors of the NGLCC. In a press release, the NGLCC praised Ellis for his “vast Board experience with LGBT and advocacy related organizations.” It’s alarming that the overseer of McDonald’s advertising campaigns directly geared toward families will now be a leader in the NGLCC’s campaign to weaken traditional values.
The NGLCC’s efforts on behalf of homosexuality threaten the family, the definition of marriage and the very religious freedom we hold so dear.
Here are two effective action steps you can take to get McDonald’s back on course:
1) Sign the attached petition to McDonald’s Chairman Andrew J. McKenna. FRC will compile the names and signatures and deliver them to McDonald’s at their corporate headquarters.
2) Print out the attached flyer (Click here to download a PDF of the flyer) and bring it to your local McDonald’s restaurant. Ask to see the manager, give him or her the flyer, and respectfully request that he or she notify the corporate offices that customers are upset about this policy. We ask that you NOT attempt to post the flyer in the restaurant, hand it out to customers, or put it on windshields in the parking lot–just bring it to the manager. Be polite, of course (the manager probably is not even aware of this new corporate policy). DO print additional copies of the flyer and give them to your friends, however, and ask them to take them to the local restaurant manager as well.
McDonald’s has enjoyed enormous success providing affordable food to billions of people; it should resist the temptation to play politics with its business.
Thank you for taking action, and may God bless you.
McDonald’s is funding homosexual activism–and I’m NOT lovin’ it!
Sincerely,
Tony Perkins
President
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Meeting Tonight in Te Anau with Larry Baldock - 7 May 2008 7:30pm
By admin | May 6, 2008
TE ANAU - 7 May
Wednesday 7.30pm
Te Anau Presbyterian
30 Moana Cres,
Te Anau
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Tonight in Gore with Larry Baldock - Tuesday 6 May 2008 7:30pm
By admin | May 6, 2008
GORE - 6 May
Tuesday 7.30pm
Gore Baptist Centre
23 Ardwick St,
Gore
Hi everyone. We are greeting you from the Deep South at the moment. Barb and I are collecting signatures in the main street of Gore today. So far 60 in only 2 hours. Last night was chilly in Invercargill with 8 deg of frost as we slept in the campervan, but after collecting 120 yesterday afternoon in downtown Invercargill and then another 70 in an hour this morning, we are feeling warm all over! 
The team from Hawkes Bay collected 998 at the women’s expo over the weekend and I know others were out in the rain collecting valuable signatures as well.
We will finish what we started!
You may have noticed that update no.26 was dated April instead of May. My mistake. What happened to April is all I can say!
So that means that the deadline for my petition is next week. Please send as many petitions as you can by Friday by post, and Monday by courier so our team can separate Sheryl’s petition from mine in time for them to be delivered to Parliament on Wednesday.
Can we do our best this week and this weekend to collect what we can. Thanks
Warm regards,
Larry
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