Currently one of the big issues in New Zealand is the government campaign to ban smacking of children by parents. Christian groups have chosen this as the issue to fight in the name of the family.......'lets stop this anti smacking campaign' go the adds and public statements. I think that yet again we have chosen the wrong issue to be known for.....the right to smack kids! If we (I say 'we' as I am lumbered in with them by the fact that they say they speak for christians and family focused people....which they don't) win we will be known for the that we won the right to smack! Aaaaaagh!!! Even if this is your view dont you think it is not the priority at the moment in NZ. Why aren't we known as the ones who won the right for womens refuges to be better funded (which thye desperatley need), or for the rights of refugees in NZ to have their families reunited with them over here (which we are very slow at), or for the rights of Maori to have their day in court over the seabed and foreshore (the Government passed legislation to override this right recently). Surely these issues are more family focused and will give us as ambassadors of Jesus a bit more credibility..........credibility that we are losing by the day.

This entry was posted by Angry and Shallow, on Wednesday, November 22, 2006. You can leave your response.