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Promoting moral welfare: reflections on true repentence

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With the constant revelations highlighted in the secular media of scandals (sexual infidelities, corruption, financial frauds, etc.) involving professing “Christian” bishops, priests, ministers, pastors and church workers, we must ask ourselves:

How can those genuinely seeking to promote the “moral welfare” of society based on a Judaeo-Christian spiritual framework, continue to do so with integrity, when so many non-Christians accuse them too of sheer hypocrisy and deceit based on the wrongdoing of others? 

Surely it is important and fair-minded to first ask the necessary question: Are the “Christian” individuals and groups actually exposed for proven immorality and corruption, really Christian at all? And second: Are those non-Christians who so boldly point the accusing finger, free from hypocrisy themselves and are they entitled to ‘throw the first stone’?  

Witness the case of Rev. Jonathan Kirkpatrick, 53, a former Auckland University of Technology (AUT) staff member, who recently admitted defrauding the AUT of more than half a million dollars. [Read more…]

AUT fraudster Jonathan Kirkpatrick jailed

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Jonathan Kirkpatrick, the former dean of Dunedin’s St Paul’s Cathedral and former partner of ex-Labour MP Tim Barnett, who was recently convicted for fraud, was sentenced today in the Auckland District Court to three years and two months jail.

Fairfax Media report:

A former manager at the Auckland University of Technology stole over $600,000 from his employer and frittered it away on a lavish lifestyle, flash cars and holidays, a court has heard.

Today his extravagance caught up with him.

Jonathan Kirkpatrick, 53, was sentenced to three years, two months’ imprisonment for the fraud in the Auckland District Court today for stealing $666,000 from AUT between 2002 and May this year.

Crown lawyer Rachael Reed said over eight and a half years, Kirkpatrick used over 82 invoices paid out to companies he set up to steal the hefty sum.

He was authorised in his role, as CEO of AUT’s business innovation centre, to issue invoices of up to $15,000 without supervision.

Reed said Kirkpatrick spent the money on top of his salary, which was $90,000 when he began at AUT in 2002 and rose to $150,000 by the time he resigned in July.

“This is a man who should have no need to steal but who obviously had taste beyond his salaried means,” she said.

Judge AA Sinclair said Kirkpatrick’s offending was motivated by greed. [Read more…]

Steve Crow Stripped of Erotica Expo Venue

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PORN KING STEVE CROW told to look elswhere for Erotica Expo site – [marketing hardcore pornography] – Manukau Courier

First Steve Crow had to can his Rugby World Cup Boobs on Bikes Parade because no one wanted it, now the porn king is being stripped of the venue for his Erotica Lifestyles Expo.

After 12 years, Auckland’s ASB Showground will no longer play host the adult entertainment expo after a contract between the two parties ended.

“Their contract expired and we’re not renewing it. The show had seen better days and had dropped off in popularity,” ASB Showground’s chief executive Mark Frankham said.

Speaking at the Auckland Council’s culture arts and events forum on Tuesday, Auckland Agricultural, Pastoral and Industrial Shows Board chairman Dave Scott said the board, which owns the showground, had been trying for a long time to show Crow the door.

“It’s taken us several years to move him out legally and we’ve forgone a bit of income to do that,” he said. [Read more…]

Abortion Supervisory Committee Statistics – A Real Shocker!

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SPCS MEDIA RELEASE – 23 Sept. 2011
 
Statistics recently provided by the Abortion Supervisory Committee (ASC) under the Official Information Act and which are not provided by the ASC in their annual report, will shock the majority of New Zealanders.
 
The Society believes that the public of New Zealand have a right to see the statistical evidence that we have obtained: a copy of evidence that proves New Zealand effectively has abortion on demand with only 2% of women being denied an abortion following a formal application to have one.
 
The Society contends that the ASC has a statutory duty to hold certifying consultants accountable for the lawfulness of the abortions that they authorise.
 
The ASC sourced statistics shown in the table below raise the following key points:
 
The top 20 consultants approved a total of 1,6014 abortions and declined 167, a refusal rate of only 1.4%. This reveals that we effectively have abortion on demand or offer. (The ASC have previously advised that the approval rate from the 200 certifying consultants is 98%.The ground of mental health is used to authorise 98% of abortions in New Zealand).

Top 20 payments to abortion certifying consultants

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Bob McCoskrie: Sex education lets down young people

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Parents have every right to be upset with the current sex education curriculum in our schools – most of it delivered by Government-funded groups.

Judging by the results of the current approach, it has been an utter failure. New Zealand has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the OECD, our STD rates are out of control and the number of teenage girls having abortions continues to rise. Our teenage pregnancy rate is almost twice the rate of Australia and Canada and over four times the rate in Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland.

The current sex education curriculum operates under the assumption that everyone is doing it or about to do it and therefore they just need to know how to do it “safely”.

…….For those youth who are sexually active, they are not being told the truth. Groups like the Family Planning Association and Rainbow Youth are perpetuating the myth that as long as you use a condom, you can pretty much do what you like.

For complete article go to:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10753771

Bob McCoskrie is National Director of Family First NZ – a registered charity with the Charities Commission.