If you stood with Benjamin Doyle, you have to stand with Hamish Campbell
Ugh.
I don’t like this, I don’t like this at all…
PM downplays MP’s ties to sect under FBI investigation
- Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has downplayed the significance of Ilam MP Hamish Campbell’s involvement in a religious sect under FBI investigation for child sex abuse allegations.
- Campbell acknowledges his family connection to the Two-by-Twos but claims his faith doesn’t interfere with his political role.
- A former member described the group as a cult, highlighting serious “red flags” and personal trauma.
…look.
If you want to believe in invisible magical flying wizards for your day to day living, you are free to, that’s what living in a progressive liberal democracy entrenches right?
As long as you don’t attempt rot enforce any of your crazy beliefs on me, you are free to believe in what you want!
Freedom of Religion is exactly that – you are absolutely free to believe what you want.
I think it’s nonsense, but out ain’t my life, it’s Hamish’s and door stepping him at Parliament the way TVNZ did to ask questions about his faith felt as ugly as watching what the alt-right Trolls were doing to Benjamin Doyle.
Yes Hamish’s particular brand of Christianity is weird as fuck, but I’m sure bussy was a surprise as well.
Yes Hamish’s brand of Christianity is under investigation, but come on, what Church isn’t?
It’s a human organisation, it will have abuse inside it.
None of this adds up to Hamish being guilty of anything and the focus on his religion seems pretty petty when the economy is melting down, when we have 500 000 relying on food banks each month and when the climate change is omnipresent.
Being religious isn’t a crime any more than being queer is.
If you stood with Benjamin Doyle, you have to stand with Hamish Campbell
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Free speech gets complicated…
And make sure you avoid all Tom Cruise movies.
Honestly our media are pathetic.
Where’s Winston now?
under Luxons desk .
I totally agree with you. A person’s faith is nobody’s business but their own. If Mr Campbell were to have been of a different Christian sect, Muslim or any of the other world religions, would there have been the same level of enquiry from the media? It’s all click-bait, scare-mongering and deflection.
He has done nothing wrong.
I heard Hayden Donnell on RNZ Media Watch trying to argue that Hamish Campbell was a legitimate target while Benjamin Doyle was not, which really just amounted to an admission of bias. So RNZ Media Watch is part of the problem of media bias, and no part of the solution.
Fact is the voters don’t need the media or other politicians to judge whether a politician is fit to represent them. They should be allowed to do that for themselves. In a democracy they would be allowed to do that for themselves.
100% We can disagree amongst ourselves as much as we want to, we don’t need some someone else to tell us how to think.
Mean while the world is burning and people are hungry and living on the street and dying because they cant get medical attention .We have become a bunch of idiots that have jumped on the hate politics of the nact and river of filth parties .Remember the attack politics before the election based on race and blatant lies .Thats what NZ as a country voted for and now we are heading for the massive rabbit hole of hate and character attacks .What a sick society we live in .
Correct Martyn.
I would prefer it if people who believed what Hamish Campbell believes weren’t in the NZ Parliament, but that’s irrelevant. I’d also prefer the same thing with everyone in ACT, but that’s equally irrelevant.
“Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has downplayed the significance of Ilam MP Hamish Campbell’s involvement in a religious sect under FBI investigation for child sex abuse allegations.”
And just ignoring all of the rest of the Catholics in parliament?
Seems unfair.
Thanks for spelling this out Martyn the bias should be obvious…but its not. Hysterical climate of finger pointing rules these days, it’s like the fuckin red brigade out there.
I blame social media.