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  1. Free Speech Union website: “We protect, expand, and fight for New Zealanders’ rights to freedom of speech, conscience, and intellectual inquiry. We envision a flourishing New Zealand civil society that values and protects vigorous debate, dissenting ideas, and freedom of speech as cultural cornerstones.”

    Church and State are separate in NZ we don’t have Bishops or Tohunga sitting as of right in the House of Lords. We get an occasional moral guidance view from the house of the lord whether that be Jesus Allah Bhuddha. (Recently we had an Imam speaking out against the proposed more military assault rifles law)

    “I may disagree profoundly with what you have to say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” Evelyn Beatrice Hall

    And now FSU doesn’t support church leaders having a dissenting view?
    freedom of conscience?
    freedom of religion?
    freedom of speech?

    FSU a great idea turning into a joke.

    FSU calls out anti-zionists for attempting to cancel zionist views but when prozionist organisations mis-use “anti-semetism” as a powerful slur to cancel the free speech of anti-war groups – crickets.

    @Nathan does the FSU pay tax?

  2. It’s so funny that all of you automatically think it’s political when these church leaders are speaking up against racism not political at all they are just informing you that it’s racist .

    1. The other funny aspect to this is that it’s only free speech when ACT and The Free Speech Union says it is. Oh the irony.

  3. Most of the self-proclaimed champions of free speech are not even slightly interested in actual free speech. i.e. a roughly equal hearing given to the opinions of all citizens, provided such speech does not constitute an existential danger to other people.
    Instead, these bogus champions of free speech seek the continued dominance of their preferred speech through the power of money and the control of platforms for the widespread distribution of speech.

    Therefore they hate the churches for having a platform that is based on the moral authority of spiritual reflection and which falls outside their sphere of control. And this authority exists, however battered it is by the churches’ very dubious record on child sexual abuse.

    A rule of thumb is useful here: every libertarian is actually an authoritarian.

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