SPCS

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS INC.

Minister defends Objectionable and Obscene Filth

by Leave a Comment

See how Minister of Internal Affairs – Hon Rick Barker – defends Objectionable and Obscene Filth.

Saturday, 08 April 2006

See from the Hansard Record how the Minister of Internal Affairs – Hon Rick Barker – defends Objectionable and Obscene Moral Filth that degrades and dehumanises women………. OFLC Reports of sexually explicit R18 DVDs and Videos cleared by Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, tabled in House by Peter Brown MP, Deputy Leader of NZ First Party…….. See how Minister tries to excuse his failure to fulfil his statutory duty with respect to eight Film and Literature Board of Review positions that expired 22 months ago.

[Read more…]

Chief Censors’ denial of involvement in banning religious videos is proved false

by Leave a Comment

“Censors and Videotapes”
Letters to the Editor
The NZ Herald, 6/03/06

Chief Censor Bill Hastings says that columnist Jim Hopkins’ attempt at satire over South Park evaporates in the harsh light of truth because he did not ban religious videotapes to which Hopkins refers.

Hastings’ claim is disingenuous. He was largely responsible for writing the decision that resulted in the banning of the two videos (GayRights/Special Rights: Inside the Homosexual Agenda and AIDS: What You Haven’t Been Told) when he was the deputy president of the Film and Literature Board of Review, a statutory position he held before becoming Deputy Chief Censor in 1998.

[Read more…]

Couples say ‘I don’t’ to civil unions

by Leave a Comment

26 February 2006

By EMMA PAGE and JENNIFER DANN

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3585006a11,00.html

Marriage celebrants are opting out of conducting civil unions because barely one couple a day has elected to have the alternative ceremony since its introduction almost a year ago.

Only 362 couples have chosen civil unions, compared with 15,683 marriages, since the Civil Union Act – which allows same-sex and heterosexual couples to gain legal standing on a par with marriage – became law last April.

Only 62 heterosexual, 145 gay and 153 lesbian couples have had civil unions.

[Read more…]

Demographic Data Sought Urgently on Chief Censor’s Office

by Leave a Comment

Media Release 3/02/06

The Society executive has requested the following information today from the Chief Censor, Bill Hastings, in an Official Information Request, marked “URGENT”. (1) Basic data on gender, ethnicity, religious affiliation, sexual orientation for all those employed as classification officers, information unit and complaints officers in the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC); and (2) Basic data on the above demographics for members of the executive of the OFLC (Chief Censor and Deputy Chief Censor). The request notes:

[Read more…]

Chief Censor’s Office Identifies Film Complaints

by Leave a Comment

Saturday, 12 November 2005

The Chief Censors’ Office – the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) – notes in its Annual Report 2005, recently tabled in parliament, that the two films most complained about by members of the public over the last year, were “9 Songs” and “Irreversible”. Both were films that the Society sought unsuccessfully to have banned or cut, by seeking reviews of the classifications by the Film and Literature Board of Review. In both cases the Board unanimously upheld the R18 classifications issued by the Classification Office. The OFLC Report 2005 states:

[Read more…]