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Charity status declined – Free-food outlet is under threat

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Just Zilch could close in three months unless its application to become a charity is accepted or the community provides emergency funding.

The free-food store, which opened in June 2011, has been fighting to become a charitable trust for the past 18 months, but has been refused at least six times.

It is about to put in its seventh application to Charities Services and if it is refused again Just Zilch Trust chairman Mark Ward says the community organisation will be on “desperate street”.

The reason Just Zilch keeps getting turned down is it has been unable to provide proof it is alleviating poverty.

Charities Services – formerly the Charities Commission – was unable to immediately respond to Manawatu Standard queries yesterday, but on its website it says that an organisation such as Just Zilch needs to be “providing the poor with a food bank” to qualify as a charity.

Because the store gives food to everybody – regardless of need – Just Zilch Trust has struggled to explain that the store is not feeding the rich as well, Mr Ward says.

For full story go to:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/8584365/Charity-status-declined

Podcast:

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/aft/aft-20130423-1407-free_shop_denied_charity_status-048.mp3

from Afternoons with Jim Mora on Tuesday 23 April 2013

Just Zilch is a food bank-like set-up, where food is collected from a variety of local shops, cafes and restaurants, and distributed for free to anyone who needs it, out of a premises on Fitzherbert St, Palmerston North. The initiative has applied to be registered for a charity on several occasions over the past 22 months, but to date all applications have been refused.

Duration: 15 min. 27 sec.

Earlier stories on Just Zilch

23/12 2012 http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/features/life-style/6183313/Growing-a-sustainable-future

21/12/ 2012 http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/8108346/Just-Zilch-busier-than-last-year

19/06/12 http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/7128146/Growing-numbers-need-Just-Zilchs-help

13/06/12 http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/features/5135443/Food-free-for-all

Maurice Williamson: A “Gay” icon’s ‘Gangnam-style’ politics and his “contemptible” speech

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The media has reported that the Pakuranga National MP, the Hon. Maurice Williamson, “has become an unlikely gay icon” following his supportive speech at the final reading of the same-sex ‘marriage’ bill. On Wednesday night  [17 April]  Williamson delivered a masterclass in the use of humour as a weapon, introducing New Zealand – and the world – to memorable phrases like “the gay onslaught” and “most enormous big gay rainbow” as he dismantled arguments against the bill, which passed into law by a comfortable margin.”

[According to Wikipedia a gay icon ”is a public figure (historical or current) who is embraced by many within lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities”].

A careful analysis of Williamson’s four minutes of grandstanding reveal that this newly discovered “gay icon” never really addressed any of the key arguments levelled against the bill by its opponents in the First and Second Reading Debates, let alone “dismantled” them (see later discussion). The empty rhetoric and poverty of coherent argument was reminiscent of the The Emperor’s New Clothes.

“One of the newspapers in New York claimed I was one of New Zealand’s only openly gay MPs,” Maurice Williamson told a reporter while  laughing, adding:  ”That’s not quite true – my wife wanted to know whether the New York Times knew something more than I did.”

A video of  the energetic speech given by this flamboyant “ego-tripping” “Buffoon”, as journalist Karl du Fresne refers to him in commenting on his “contemptible” speech, has reportedly gone “viral” on You Tube, having been viewed over 580,000 times since Wednesday 17 April. Du Fresne considered it contemptible “because it mocked and ridiculed people who had merely exercised their right to express a view on the bill.” The self-deluded Emperor Williamson’s ‘arguments’ in favour of the bill, when exposed, are found to be nothing more than ridicule and self-deluded lies motivated by naked ambition to curry favour with the LGBT communities.

So what does this media-hyped ‘adulation’ by “gays” over the most enormous big humour of ‘Emperor’ Williamson indicate about the true size of this Member’s exposed ego? [Read more…]

Buffoon of the week – by Karl du Fresne

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Karl du Fresne writes on his blog: “Maurice Williamson [the “ego-tripping” National MP for Pakuranga] is being lionised as some sort of international celebrity for his speech in Parliament in support of the same-sex marriage bill. He has become an improbable hero in the eyes of the media, which abandoned all semblance of professional impartiality on Louisa Wall’s legislation….I see nothing to admire in Williamson’s grandstanding. On the contrary, I think it was a contemptible speech – contemptible because it mocked and ridiculed people who had merely exercised their right to express a view on the bill.”
To read more go to: Blog post dated 21 April 2013. http://karldufresne.blogspot.co.nz/
For complete profile of Karl du Fresne see:

Public Talk: Same Sex ‘Marriage’ and the Threat to Religious Freedom – the Canadian Experience

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Family Life International NZ, a registered charity that is pro-life, has organised and sponsored a Public Talk on 11th and 14th April entitled “Same Sex ‘Marriage’ and the Threat to Religious Freedom – the Canadian Experience“

Thursday 11th April 2013
St Anne’s Parish Hall • Emmett Street • Newtown • Wellington

Easy access and plenty of car parks.  A collection will be taken to defray expenses.

For more information please contact Clare 04 237 8343 or clare.fli@xtra.co.nz

or download flyer (available for distribution):

John-Henry Westen Public Talk in Wellington Flyer (504 KB)

http://www.fli.org.nz/_literature_127154/John-Henry_Westen_Public_Talk_in_Wellington_Flyer

John Henry Westen has written in a recent article entitled:

Do we love those inclined to homosexuality enough to stop same-sex ‘marriage’?

In this battle over same-sex ‘marriage’ it often sounds like those pushing the dismantling of traditional marriage have the upper hand in terms of love. ‘You are opposed to love!’; ‘How does the love between me and my partner affect you in your marriage?’; ‘Why can’t I be allowed to love whomever I choose?’

These are the tough arguments from ‘love’ facing those who are fighting to protect marriage from radical redefinition.

In truth, however, love is the principle reason to fight same-sex ‘marriage.’

You see, law is a teacher and enshrining same-sex ‘marriage’ in law would lead many people to believe that homosexual sexual relations are equal to those of heterosexual married couples.  The difficulty, of course, is that while sexual acts between heterosexual married couples can be totally healthy and positive, the same can never be said of sexual acts between persons of the same sex, whether they happen within a relationship given the name “marriage” or not.

For full article go to:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/do-we-love-those-inclined-to-homosexuality-enough-to-stop-same-sex-marriage

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Family Life International NZ, a registered charity, has organised and sponsored a Public Talk entitled “Same Sex ‘Marriage’ and the Threat to Religious Freedom – the Canadian Experience”

Sunday 14th April 2013
Liston Hall • 30-32 Hobson Street • Auckland City
Access is also available via St Patrick’s Square, Wyndham Street
Parking available at the Farmers Carpark for $2.00 (with validation)

As same-sex “marriage” legislation is before our Parliament, with a very real prospect that it will become law in the next few weeks, you are invited to attend this insightful public meeting on the impact same-sex “marriage” has on religious freedom.  A Prayer Vigil culminating in a Prayer Procession to St Patrick’s Cathedral for Holy Mass will also take place after John-Henry’s address.

For more information please contact Brendan brendanr.fli@xtra.co.nz or 09 629 4361