Not quite as bad as the Hodgson/Mallard dancing
Many will have seen John Key “dancing” at the Big Gay Out festival. It’s not quite as bad as the infamous Mallard and Hodgson dance routines, but not that far behind.
Someone captured a few seconds on You Tube. It’s from a wee way back, but still enough to have a good laugh at.
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February 9th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Ok, so we have the Big “Gay” out sponsored by the Aids foundation, one of the reasons that the Aids foundation sponsors this event is “to break down the gay and lesbian stereotype” and to promote the “safe sex” message to “gay males in particular”
All well and good, I have no problem with that , however by sponsoring the Big Gay out the aids foundation is effectively reinforcing the gay stereotype and the false assumption that Aids is a disease that only afflicts gay males.
How fucking stupid.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Queers are welcome to their “Big Gay Out”. Why the damn hell does the Prime Minister of New Zealand need to attend?? Just to satisfy the trendy social mores of all the “urban liberals” in Wellington??? Pffft.. wet wet wet…
February 9th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Redbaiter is turned on….!
February 9th, 2009 at 9:02 am
If Helen Clark had been filmed dancing at the ‘Big Gay Out’ hmmmmmmmm??????
February 9th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Indian name, ‘Dances Like Girl’
February 9th, 2009 at 9:13 am
H C would’ve attended, she wouldn’t have danced. Which is absolute correct decorum in keeping with dignity.
Politicians need a hint of royal demeanour about them. Presence is far more than enough to acknowledge favour.
Seeing Pete Hodgson dance was sickening. But the gay agenda is helped enough without straight leaders demeaning themselves and the political gays snickering with joy. Bastards.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am
that whistling sound in the background is redbaiter building up a full head of steam..
..stand well back..!..i think he could be about to ‘blow’..
.(..apologies there redbaiter..for the use of the gay ‘blow’ word.eh..?.)
and..do you think ol’ redbaiter is a bit ‘disappointed’ ..
..with his new ‘conservative’ leader..?
and:..”Indian name, ‘Dances Like Girl’..
..heh..!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
February 9th, 2009 at 9:35 am
This makes the Green’s Morris Dancing clip look sane! Go John, get d o w n !
February 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am
It’s embarassing, he shouldn’t lower himself to this
Why does the Prime Minister feel it necessary to hang out with these freaks?
It’s not whether they are gay or not.
I have no problem with the PM visiting a group of gay people acting normally
but also I wouldn’t approve if he did the same at say a rock concert
February 9th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Unfortunately Homosexuality is so mainstream,so right,so enlightened- that even conservative PM’s are endorsing the gay agenda.
Well its still wrong people.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:11 am
How many E’s are there in John Key?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am
The gay agenda is sickening . Both Key and Klark are foolish to dance in such a depraved atmosphere.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:19 am
“How many E’s are there in John Key?”
The same as your E for comments!
February 9th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Wow. What a bunch of bigots dressed up in tight fun police uniforms…
February 9th, 2009 at 11:57 am
“Unfortunately Homosexuality is so mainstream,so right,so enlightened- that even conservative PM’s are endorsing the gay agenda.
Well its still wrong people.”
What is Scott? People wanting to live their lives as they choose the same as the rest of us…? My we can’t have that can we you lover of your fellow man you. (but not in THAT way…)
February 9th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Scott (183) says:
February 9th, 2009 at 11:10am
Unfortunately homosexuality is so mainstream, so right, so enlightened – that even conservative PM’s are endorsing the gay agenda. Well its still wrong people.
What’s wrong, unfortunately, is that bigots like you exist.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
And the question on everyone’s lips – is he (gay), is he (out) and …. is he ( big ) ???
DPF say it’s ” enough to have a good laugh at” and it is!
Fomenting happy mischief, that DPF!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Gwad, some of the regulars here really need a break.
Good on Key for attending and getting involved. He’s clearly got none of the hang-ups that some others here suffer from.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I can forgive Rodney for dancing with the stars, but I draw the line at dancing with the fairies. I would have earlier said John Key wouldn’t have it in him – but now I’m not so sure!
If his term in parliament is going to be one of ‘embracing’ minority sectors to this degree he has clearly overlooked the sentiments of the many that put him there
[DPF: I voted for John to deliver tax cuts, roll back or at least slow down nanny state, provide more choice in education, reform welfare. Don't care where he dances, so long as he improves his rhythm]
February 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Big Bruv is dead right, it took over a decade to get the inaccurate acronym GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) changed to the more meaningful AIDS, as few were eager to let current medical research get in the way of their anti-gay paranoia.
But in this case I think it is more a matter of the Aids foundation wanting to support a group that it shares some common goals with, rather than anything to do with a stereotype that has (now) more or less disappeared into the woodwork where it belongs.
Good to see that Key is his own man and doesn’t feel the need to cultivate some sort of false air of gravitas around him in order to lead. Those sorts of leaders are now few and far between amongst his generation anyway…
February 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Wrong is still wrong people.
I wonder why people are so fiercely pro-homosexuality and immediately label as a bigot someone who says — people it’s wrong!
I think the answer is this. When we reject God and reject his morality then it’s an all or nothing proposition. If we allow a little bit of morality then it will cramp our style. I mean those people who are anti-anti-homosexuality may not be homosexual themselves. But if homosexuality is wrong then perhaps other sexual behaviours are wrong? And perhaps those other sexual behaviours some of our correspondents may be keen on?
Or perhaps it is deeper than that. We have rejected all of God’s ways and so our heart has become hard.
I just believe our nation is going to hell on a hand cart. Once homosexuality is okay then anything is okay. Our society is creaking around the edges. Crime and violence and pain and suffering are everywhere.
We need an urgent restoration to the biblical principles that made us great. We need to turn back to God.
Otherwise we in the West will fall just as the Roman Empire fell.
[DPF: Which God? For most of Rome's time it worshipped Jupiter Optimus Maximus and his pantheon. They were in vogue for 1,000 years or so. It was a couple of hundred years after they switched Gods, they fell]
February 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Are you sure that’s not the blue Wiggle?
February 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
llew – lol
(I thought pink !)
February 9th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Scott:
Person A just wants to have sex with the partner of his choice in the privacy of his own bedroom.
Person B says: “No, you can’t do that. It’s not right. My god says its not right. So it’s just NOT, okay? Stop that now.”
Bigotry? Nah.
(PS: Though I guess it must be disappointing for person B when (s)he votes for the centre-right assuming they will be a classic morally-conservative outfit, and only later discovers that John Key actually isn’t paranoid about the cock!
)
February 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
The queers like the negative karma button. Hit me with a flower fairy!
February 9th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Hi there DPF. Which God? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The God called Yahweh in the Old Testament and supremely revealed in the form of Jesus Christ in the New. That God.
The reference to the Roman Empire is to alert us to the historical fact that even what seem mighty and impregnable nations and countries can fall.
People here in the West seem to believe that our nations will go on for ever. But when cut off from their roots, they will wither and die. I cannot see how Western civilisation can continue when it reverts to barbarian and pagan practices that were rejected by our forefathers. Homosexuality is one, abortion is another.
But the root of our problem is our rejection of God.
Christianity is absolutely foundational to our civilisation.
And I, and many others believe, in the words of Henry Kissinger, it has the additional benefit of being true.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
dad – I’m not one of “the queers”. I just think some of your opinions are very, very ugly and you ought to keep them to yourself!!!
February 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Feel the beat of the tambourine, oh yeah!
February 9th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Nah, he’s the best of them at dancing, think you mean the red Wiggle, Murray – he’s got great guitar licks, but that boy can not dance.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Hi there rat biter.
You are assuming a few things in your reply. First of all that people should do whatever they like in the privacy of their own home. That is a very debatable assumption.
I think you are assuming that people are isolated Islands.
Rather Christianity says that we are part of society, that we need to love our neighbour, and consequently care about them and what they do.
In the same way that taking drugs is harmful and wrong, so homosexuality is harmful and wrong. It offends the spirit and hurts us.
When you say “your God”, I am referring to God the creator of all things. At the end of the day we all have to stand in judgement before him. So I would rather give good godly advice to my neighbour then endorse harmful and shameful practices. No matter how popular and trendy they may be in 2009.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
ratbutt – Tim Barnett was wrong when he said ; “we will not have a queer friendly government forever”.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
rat – GRID was only used for about the first 6 months that the syndrome became public, not for a decade as you claim. It very quickly superseded by AIDS, within a year of the initial reports arising in 1981.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Scott;
You are of course welcome to believe what you like.
But IMHO received moralities taught dogmatically in a framework based on “Our invisible, all-powerful creator spirit says we should JUST NOT DO THIS” are a poor substitute for actually asking yourself intelligently about whether you believe someone else’s private life is bad, or dangerous, or really any of your business at all!
February 9th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Hey Scott, perhaps you’ll speak only for yourself and not all of Christendom. Not all Christians believe what you do.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Mike S – thanks for the correction. I thought I recalled a tv interview with Californian doctors who said “GRID” was very pernicious over there.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
“I just think some of your opinions are very, very ugly and you ought to keep them to yourself!!!”
I think most of your opinions are pretty ugly too, but I defend your right to express them. If not, I’d be as bad as you and so many other bigots here that are throwing that word about with such abandon they obviously fail to see how well they fit the profile.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Scott (187) Vote: 3 2 Says:
February 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Wrong is still wrong people.
I wonder why people are so fiercely pro-homosexuality and immediately label as a bigot someone who says — people it’s wrong!
I think the answer is this. When we reject God and reject his morality then it’s an all or nothing proposition.
Thing is Scott, which god are you saying we reject? Yours? My next door nieghbour’s? There’s too damned many gods to choose from, so isn’t it a wholoe lot better to ignore them all and just get on with life?
Or perhaps it is deeper than that. We have rejected all of God’s ways and so our heart has become hard.
Well, hard hearts are god’s way, as in Exodus 10:20 “But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go.”
February 9th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Nothing so fucken laughable as narrow minded doctrinal socialists lecturing others on the idiocy of their beliefs. Look in the mirror ‘tards.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I looked in the mirror and saw a strong, handsome man looking back.
What do you see, red? A sad and lost little boy?
Its great to be a MAN and not be beholden to the myths of some ancient desert dwellers, but rather to be able to exercise free thought and rationality.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
But in this case I think it is more a matter of the Aids foundation wanting to support a group that it shares some common goals with, rather than anything to do with a stereotype that has (now) more or less disappeared into the woodwork where it belongs.
The fact that the disease doesn’t discriminate doesn’t mean the Aids Foundation shouldn’t prioritise its limited resources. The biggest risk group is still gay men (and young gay men in particular), which is why most of the social marketing budget goes via media and events that target that group.
As far as John Key’s little turn goes, I was there, and although I just missed seeing the actual dance, people took it in good spirit. Moreover, I think he was just being a good sport, rather than making any political calculation. It was just a fun, relaxed day in the sun.
And it’s hardly unprecedented. In think it was 1998 that Jenny Shipley was a guest of honour at the Hero Parade. She got a bit carried away and became the first New Zealand Prime Minister to advocate civil unions. No one remembers that …
I must say, this discussion does illustrate the gulf between some of the commenters here and the centre-right mainstream.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Comedy gold. Red, there’s not day goes by that you’re not trying to stuff Anne of Green Gables (or the SOLO heroine’s name is) down everyone’s throats. I s’pect you’ve got passages of doctinal gumpf memorised for every situation.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Why the fuck do they have to call it a big gay out? Other than that i have no problem with people behaving like the Greeks of old.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
“the centre-right mainstream”
You and your name calling cohorts would never allow such a concept to exist. There is no centre right in NZ, there is only extreme left and far left. Leave our traditional culture alone please.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hi ratbiter,
thank you for your reply. I agree — it is not good to be “in other people’s business”.
However in this case — the post is about John Key, attending a gay public event, in his capacity as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Therefore this is a public matter, not just a private one.
By attending John Key is sending a message that homosexuality is okay. Again in my humble opinion it is not okay. And I believe that God that created us all does not think it is okay.
And we do no good to our neighbour by endorsing what is wrong and harmful. If we say, just do what you like, it doesn’t really bother me — what is that really? Is that love of neighbour or is that indifference?
February 9th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
“but rather to be able to exercise free thought and rationality.”
Yeah, straight from the pages of Das Kapital. Half wit.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Did you see the size of those gingas dancing with the PM? I think we have an answer for you
February 9th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Scott – why do you care?? If everybody was as holy and righteous as you, there would be no sinners surely and you’d have no one to *save*. You’d be out of a job, mate, so aren’t you glad that sinners exist?
Seriously though, your “God that created us all” – as DPF pointed out, which specific God are you talking about? There are thousands in the world all with their own set of *believers* and then of course there are those of us who don’t believe in any God, and only believe in science. To quote Sir Stephen Henry Roberts, “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
February 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
My name is Jack — sorry I don’t quite get the point of your post? To which God? — I have answered that in my reply to DPF. I don’t quite get your reference to Exodus? Perhaps if you comment further?
Your question though about — “so isn’t it a wholoe lot better to ignore them (gods) all and just get on with life?” is certainly worth discussing.
I am amazed about how shallow the average Kiwi’s spiritual life is. Some people never pray, never read the Bible, never go to church, never seem to feed their soul.
Unfortunately what we are seeing is the embracing of all sorts of substitutes. Gay rights is one, a cause for I think the minority of people. But many others feed their empty selves through drugs, binge drinking, the pursuit of material things etc.
But what if what pastor Rick Warren says is true? He said “we were made by God and for God. Until we realise that life won’t make much sense”.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
redbaiter says “I am too afraid to exercise free thought and rationality scares me”.
Guess you must be beholden to one of the desert dweller myths.
Come into the light red, come in to the light.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Scott, I asked which god before DPF’s comment.
I am amazed about how shallow the average Kiwi’s spiritual life is. Some people never pray, never read the Bible, never go to church, never seem to feed their soul.
Why pray? Prayer is never answered. God has never, ever re-grown an amputated limb, and yet many have prayed for that. Why read the bible more than once? once was enough for me to know it had very little of value, was full of evil and stupidity. Why go to church when there are many other far more sociable places to be? And what is a soul, and why does it need feeding? i feed my body. That is enough.
Oh shit!! I wish I’d read your whole post before replying – Rick Warren says its true? gee, looks like you win! After all, Rick Warren. Wow!
Sorry, my life makes a lot of sense, god makes none at all.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for your comments atheist 1.
Gosh the replies are coming thick and fast today. If you’ll forgive me I’ll answer your comment and then I must be employed on other matters.
As I replied to DPF the God I am referring to is spoken of in the Old Testament as “the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob” and is supremely revealed in the New Testament in the form of Jesus Christ.
“Seriously why do I care?” Good question. Because as God loved me so out of his love, I can love others. There are really only two commandments in Christianity — “love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your strength and with all your mind. And love your neighbour as yourself”. So that’s why Christians care.
I’m not sure that atheism has much to say on this question of the rightness or wrongness of homosexuality. Or indeed evolutionary theory. But indeed why should an atheist care about anybody?
But in closing, like you I am a skeptic. I just do not believe in the God of evolution. I am convinced that evolution has not occurred.
The God of the Bible I know personally, through his son Jesus Christ. The God of evolution — I don’t think he exists.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Scott – “I am amazed about how shallow the average Kiwi’s spiritual life is. Some people never pray, never read the Bible, never go to church, never seem to feed their soul.”
Big assumptions here. Perhaps the *average Kiwi* (whoever that is) doesn’t equate spiritual life with your God. Perhaps the substitutes you talk of are enough for the *average Kiwi*. Or perhaps, like me, the *average Kiwi* finds personal peace and tranquillity in the sea or on a mountain.
It is very, very arrogant to assume that if someone doesn’t pray or read the Bible (LOL, sorry that is just so funny), that they have no spiritual life.
Good on John Key by the way. Jesus Christ, I am really starting to like the guy!!
February 9th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
The God of evolution — I don’t think he exists.
Scott, of everything you’ve had to say, this is the best. You are right. There is no “god of evolution”. then again, there are no other gods, either.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Hey Myname-is-jerkoff, here’s a question you can apply your “free thought and rationality” to-
On an island with free exit and egress, when you elect politicians who steal money from (a) the intelligent and productive, and then those politicians share that stolen money with (b) the stupid and unproductive (in return for their vote), what do you end up with,
A greater proportion of a, or a greater proportion of b??
February 9th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Anybody would think the woolly woofters are feeling guilty stating that they know there isn’t a God.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
If you’re ever bored, start spouting off on a non-religious blog about how great God is. It’s pretty much a given that you’ll get something going.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
d4j, nobody, regardless of sexual orientation, needs to feel guilty about speaking the truth.
The guilty ones are those behoden to a desert myth that fills their heads with guilt trips.
listen carefully – t h e r e i s n o g o d.
See, the world didn’t end, lightning didn’t strike me, my hair didn’t catch on fire and the sun and I will rise again tomorrow. I cannot understand why people would want to keep subjecting themselves to the guilt that calls itself god.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Thanks mynameiswack. I rest my case.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Its not usual to rest your case unless you hold a winning and, and the full house might be JC, bigSkydaddy and the WholyGhosty, but Satan n me, wé have the Ace High Royal Flush!
You need to get out from under the thumb of your childhood trauma and embrace your tru huMANity.
February 9th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
[DPF: I voted for John to deliver tax cuts, roll back or at least slow down nanny state, provide more choice in education, reform welfare. Don't care where he dances, so long as he improves his rhythm]
I’ve spent a few years telling my kids that it may legal to pick your nose in public, but hey – !!!!, Homosexuality may be legal I want to become a grandparent one day, so don’t become one, This is despite the best efforts of the past regime to encourage it. Ask any responsible parent if given the choice would they want their child to become a homo – I’m sure I know the answer from those being honest.
I voted for all the things you did but also a degree of family values where I don’t need to protect my kids from the state. I don’t particularly want this PM following the past government and assisting the promotion of homosexuality
February 9th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Wow, 20 minutes, and still Mynameisjerkoff’s “free thought and rationality” is in stall mode.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Kiwi’s are a spiritual people in that they work themselves hard in work, play and sport.
We have that attitude of looking up to great sportsman because we know why they’re great and we’re not. For years we felt unworthy to wear an All Black jersey in public.
Our problem is the tall poppy syndrome and we can lack in giving credit wherre credit is due. It really caries on from the amaetur years when we weren’t paid our worth and walked away from a brilliant goal as if we had just passed the salt across the table.
There’s a difference between being spiritual and being ignored. Tthe Aussies don’t do it. They applaud their stars of any arena and goad them onto greater heights. All we got from the last govt is that we got to get rid of the no 8 wire philosophy; in fact, stop being kiwi’s. They’d have us turn into Chinese, submissive before the state.
If this country truly reflected the spirituality of the Kiwi heart, our middle class would be far bigger and govt would be far less a near and present danger. lets hope the coming times make that a reality.
I believe God still has us in his plan or communism would’ve prevailed.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
“You need to get out from under the thumb of your childhood trauma”
My childhood was very happy thank you Mynameiswack. That was when gay meant happy. How could they hijack that word? Hit the negative karma for me thank you.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
hit as requested.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I believe God still has us in his plan or communism would’ve prevailed.
The truly mindlessness of the true believer, aye?
So, in your mind, as long as NZ was spared from communism, all was well. Shame god didn’t care about those who DID suffer, aye? But then, he’s not that kind of god, is he?
This mind set is a sickening as the woman I read of today who claimed god spared her from the Victorian bushfires. Shame he only had time to spare one. aye?
February 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
“So, in your mind, as long as NZ was spared from communism,”
Actually, God works his hand as powerfully in Communism as anyone else.
Totalitarianism is coming to the world. THe world will exchange freedom for security.
But in Gods time not the politico’s. Their agenda fulfills Gods plan. That’s why they can’t preveil until God is ready.
Labour jumped ahead of the NWO predicted 2,000 years ago. In actual fact, way back in Daniel and Ezekiel. And also expounded by brilliant Biblical minds.
It’s moving ahead, but not that fast.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Wow, over half an hour and Mynameisjerkoff’s skills in free and rational thinking are still to be made evident.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
“Actually, God works his hand as powerfully in Communism as anyone else. ”
A god of pain and suffering? oh yeah, that’s who I’ll choose to worship. yeah right.
Actually, exchanging freedom for security sounds just like going to church. No thanks, I’ll hang on to my freedom.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Strange how some go on about gays, could it be there is a question mark over their own sexuality ?
Take a wide stance do they ?
As for the xian types, damn they are a giggle, worried that homosexuality will become compulsory, do some protest too much ?
February 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Grumpy – “damn they are a giggle, worried that homosexuality will become compulsory, do some protest too much ?”
Agreed LOL. You know what they say about nuns and their candles….
February 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
OK, times up. More than an hour, and all we have from the blog’s self proclaimed most effective free and rational thinker is hollow silence.
I’ll tell you why that is.
Mynameisjerkoff is not by any means able to think rationally or free of the sick doctrinal ideology of socialism. He’s as religious as any of the Christians he scorns on here, but will not acknowledge that fact, or acknowledge that his own religion has been and still is one of the most destructive and poisonous faiths that has ever been seen on this earth. Socialism/ communism/ collectivism has been responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths, untold misery and poverty and social destruction on such a wide scale that whole countries have virtually disappeared from the face of the earth.
Yet still they believe, and some of the more ignorant and stupid believers have the damn outrageous gall to come on here and lay claim to being capable of thinking freely and rationally. What utter crap. Poor little Mynameisjerkoff is a cultural socialist, indoctrinated with the sick religion of leftism probably from his moment of birth and most definitely since his first experience of NZ’s perverted and introspective education system. He’ll most likely never be able to think freely and rationally given that what passes for his brain has been corrupted and defiled by the sick doctrine of socialism to the extent where most likely even adulthood will not allow him to break free of his delusional state.
So fuck off Jerkoff with your assaults on Christianity. Christians may have their faults, but I’ll take one of them to a million of your kind of barbaric savage anti human lot any day.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
What happened to his right to express himself?
February 9th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Key’s ‘Indian’ name (version 2) “Dances With Queers”
February 9th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
“What happened to his right to express himself?”
Dunno, is someone doing something to prevent him from exercising that right? Maybe, being the pathetic little try hard weasel you are, you could identify that someone?
February 9th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
If there is a God, why didn’t he grant Key the gift of dance?
February 9th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I was quite pleasently surprised to see that he attended.
@llew
That right goes both ways.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
By attending John Key is sending a message that homosexuality is okay. Again in my humble opinion it is not okay.
You’re welcome to your opinion, Scott. But Key is the Prime Minister of all of New Zealand, not of the small group of people who share your philosophy. He would not be the Prime Minister of he espoused view like yours.
The fact is, New Zealanders as a group were relaxed about homosexuality long before their politicians had the courage to amend laws. In 1978 , a Victoria University researcher polled people in Wellington and Hamilton on their attitudes to homosexuality. 75% wanted homosexual intercourse removed from the Crimes Act. MPs (who presumably considered themselves to be standing up for social order) had rejected just such a move in 1976, and it would be another eight years before they caught up with the public mood.
More remarkably, 80% of the sample said the Human Rights Act should be extended to offer protection on the basis of sexual orientation. That took 14 years!
And more recently of course, poll after poll found majority support for civil unions, despite the absurd scare campaign that went on around that law change.
And I believe that God that created us all does not think it is okay.
But as noted above, not only does not everyone share your view, a good many Christians don’t. You’ll have to get used to the idea that you are in the minority.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
[DPF: I voted for John to deliver tax cuts, roll back or at least slow down nanny state, provide more choice in education, reform welfare. Don't care where he dances, so long as he improves his rhythm]
If it’s any comfort, Mallard’s infamous TV dance was not an isolated incident. I observed him at the Homegrown festival in Wellington so paralysed by his lack of rhythm that all he could do for half an hour was tap his right foot.
Does it come with MP status? Perhaps Key could deputise Paula Bennett as the Minister for Booty-Shaking. She probably breakdances or something.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I’m with Whaleoil- why don’t you just get over yourself…
February 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
How many E’s are there in John Key?
Clearly, not enough. Otherwise he’d be dancing better.
Boom boom!
February 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Don’t you mean bum bum !!
February 9th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Oh God (sorry!) I love the God/Gay threads, invariably they bring out the “best” in Kiwibloggers.
Scott – I disagree with you utterly but I respect your ability to argue that position civilly and without getting shitty and hurling abuse – a rare combination from what I’ve seen!
If only some of the commentators with thousands more comments under their belts than you could learn from this example…
February 9th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I’m with Whaleoil- why don’t you just get over yourself…
Which is pretty funny coming from someone who refers to himself in the third person.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I don’t think that’ll surprise anyone Red. You’re both such happy souls, I’m sure you have a lot of fun together pulling the wings off insects and writing rude words on shop walls. I don’t suppose you drive a rotary do you?
February 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Saddleback, saddlebacking is best.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
This footage is very positive for Jon Key. Now we know he cannot dance, he must not be gay!
On this note, there should be no bathroom stories, aka LAX in the future.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:04 am
You would think that when Helen Clark was booted out of office on 8 November 2008 that the new administration would not want to mimic everything she did.
After all, it was TIME FOR A CHANGE.
February 16th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Scott,
for gods sake have an open mind for once and accept other people,