One News, NZ's State Broadcaster, spends $1 million to attack 4 billion Muslims & Christians Worldwide.

Congratulations to One News in New Zealand, which has just spent around $1 million of tax payers dollars in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, on a Five Part Investigation into a Church which it refers to disparagingly as - shock, horror - "loud fundamentalist". The Church is called Destiny. It has many Māori & Pasifika as members. What did One News discover? The Church holds an "active stance against the LGBTQI community" with women not enjoying equal rights. One News' Campbell found several women "who live in its shadows" and that the "premise" of Destiny’s support group for men, "Man Up", includes "family values" and "anti-drugs". He found "a culture of, at best, antiquated patriarchy". Journos at One News loathe traditional values, so decided to conduct Thought Police Busts of such groups. The question we pose is whether holding conservative beliefs about LGBTQI & gender matters is a feature of the world's Great Religions? Should uncovering "antiquated patriarchal" beliefs justify a State Funded Media Search Warrant costing $1 million?

Does Islam hold relaxed views about being gay? It is strictly forbidden. What about official Catholic Church doctrine? Much the same. Do these religions hold "antiquated" and "patriarchal" views about women? I'm no religious expert but understand that there is not one ordained priest in Catholicism who is a woman. Similar rules apply in Islam, where women are not permitted to lead men in prayer. This Blog has nothing to do with defending or critiquing any church or religion, whether it be Catholic, Islam, or Destiny Church. Unlike One News, we respect people of faith. We are critiquing how NZ's State Broadcaster has launched a costly investigation into a Church only to discover that it preaches conservative values. Why doesn't One News investigate Catholic and Muslim views about different sexual orientations and gender equality? Do One News journos opine that the women who belong to those faiths live in "shadows"?

We all know what's behind the One News investigation. Its staff just have different values to devoutly religious Muslims and Catholics. One News journos think their views are superior to those folks' views. By the way, such people comprise 1/2 of the world's population. One News considers the beliefs espoused by Destiny Church threaten the parties & politicians it wants elected in 2026. The reason its journos don't attack Muslims and Catholics for their beliefs is they don't have the guts - there'd be consequences for them personally. Destiny is an easy target. There's no place for a State Broadcaster to insult the views of religious folks as being "antiquated" and "patriarchal". Who is One News to play God? It should be wound up. It serves no purpose. It wastes money to create division in NZ society. It launches dumb investigations into nothing to get itself more clicks and to help it sway elections.

Having Walked Out of NZ at its Most Crucial Time when the Treaty Principles Bill was debated, PM Luxon visits the Vatican Palace, Buckingham Palace, and Sultan's Palaces in Istanbul

The Kiwi Prime Minister says he wants NZ's economy to grow. It got ranked near bottom of the world this week by the IMF in terms of real GDP growth. On the back of the uncertainty due to tariffs that is shaving around 0.5% off most country's project economic growth rates, the National Party may be the first in NZ history to preside over an economy that is mired in stagnation during its entire three year term of office. Last year it shrank by 1.1%. Whilst part of the reason for the slow-down continuing may now be overseas tariff-related events, the main reason holding back investment in NZ is because we can't be sure anymore our Parliament has sovereign powers. That kind of uncertainty would bring any economy to a halt. How do we know it exists? Because PM Luxon threw ACT's Treaty Principles Bill under a bus and its first clause was, "The Government of NZ has full power to govern & Parliament has full power to make laws". Should Luxon not have liked the other two clauses, why not pass an amended Bill that made that one statement? It was beneath Luxon to even debate the point. No, he prefers schmoozing with King Charles in Buckingham Palace, scheming with the UK Labour Prime Minister against the US, doing a side-trip to the Pope's service in the Vatican Palace, and visiting Turkey to fly around the Sultan's Palaces in Istanbul on a magic carpet. All to shift "the narrative" away from the Treaty. Apparently our PM thinks the Treaty has nothing to do with economic growth. Good luck with that hypothesis.