March 13, 2025 3:00pm by David Farrar

The hypocrisy!

Twyford, the Labour MP for Te Atatū, spoke against Destiny Church after the Pride events and called for the church to be removed from the charities register.

Twyford said earlier that Police Minister Mark Mitchell had confirmed 20 offenders had been referred by police to Man Up and Legacy in the last year.

“Referrals to Man Up and Legacy need to stop. Members of these groups violently disrupted a Pride Week event at the Te Atatū Peninsula library and are now at the centre of a police investigation,” Twyford said.

The hypocrisy is staggering. Twyford’s Government funded the Mongrel Mob to run drug rehabilitation courses for drug addicts and said that was a great idea, but now they say having Destiny run rehabilitation courses is unconscionable!

One group commits murders, armed robberies, rapes etc, and the other disrupted an event!

I am no fan of Destiny Church. I condemned their actions in disrupting the events. I actually agree that there is a conflict between one arm running anti violence programmes and another using force to disrupt an event. But the hypocrisy is what gets me.