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Mon, 21 Sep 2009 1:36p.m.

Act MP John Boscawen

Act MP John Boscawen

Act MP John Boscawen says he will delay his member's bill on smacking and hold a series of public meetings.

The bill, which would legalise smacking for correction, was unlikely to have made it past its first reading.

Mr Boscawen wrote the bill after 87.4 percent of voters said they did not think "a smack as part of good parental correction" should be a criminal offence.

National and Labour were expected to vote down Mr Boscawen's bill. Both believe the law was working as intended.

Prime Minister John Key had said he would not change the law and was instead reinforcing guidelines to ensure police and welfare authorities did not prosecute parents for a light, inconsequential smack.

Mr Boscawen said he would write to the Clerk of Parliament today asking for the bill to be delayed indefinitely, the New Zealand Herald reported.

He would hold meetings and seek public support for his bill.

A meeting was held in Mt Roskill, another was planned for north Canterbury tonight and Tauranga early next month.

"I only get one chance to put it up and when I do put it up I want to do everything I can to get the maximum vote for it," Mr Boscawen said.

Mr Boscawen was challenging MPs to turn up to public meetings in their electorates.

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03 Oct 2009 02:35p.m.

kelly wrote:

Shame on you Colin.
Democracy has no relation with GOD. Christianity is a relationship with God. I'm not a Christian but I'm democratic.

And the LETTER of Gods laws isn't a relationship with God. Your religious beliefs may you find your version of God but Jesus is the only way to heaven. Myself I'm unrepented but I am democratic!

02 Oct 2009 01:41p.m.

Colin wrote:

Shame on all Christians who support smacking their children. I as a Christian cannot support smacking when children are regularly abused and killed. And don't say section 59 protects children,because obviously it didn't. Jesus said "suffer the little children to come unto me". We should be protesting against the high murder rate amongst our young and the high abortion rate, not protesting to smack our children.

if you use the bible to prove your point about smacking, then I hope all you supporters remember that Paul said that women shouldn't preach to men and tell your women folk to be quiet in church. Both are biblically valid and both absurd in this day and age. Protecting our unborn and very young is far more important than this ridiculous argument about Good given rights. The God I worship is a God of love and I'm sure that He must weep every time a child is murdered by the ones who should protect them As for Mr Boscawen well Max said it all.

01 Oct 2009 07:29p.m.

al2 wrote:

Citizens initiated referendums should be banned.

There is a chance to vote in and vote out governments every three years. These cost enough already.

If you don't like any parties policies on a particular subject then stand yourself.

Simple.

23 Sep 2009 05:14p.m.

Craig Young wrote:

If Mr Boscawen wants to advance
a militant fundamentalist social
agenda, then he should have joined
the Kiwi Party. This is populist
pottiness gone beserk...

21 Sep 2009 07:23p.m.

kelly wrote:

The law should of never been changed!

Thank you GOD for Acts MP John Boscawen, democracies with you!

It's a GOD given right for parents to discpline their children when they have too!

Why do you think Destiny Church marched on parliment grounds to protect democracies GOD given rights?

The're to many liberal opinions however that wish to bloke the truth!

I thought MMP was long gone, very TRUE?

MMP stands for MESSY MUDDLED POLITICS?

How does the tail wag or control the dog, when not all minority parties are needed to get the votes needed to administer new LAWS?

We now have IPR Inversely Proportional Representation! 87% of Parliament vote against 87% of voters to represent 12% or the U.N. or whoever pulls those puppets strings. True!

How can any minor parties control major parties with their agenda setting blockades. If the LAW was changed that didn't permit these sometimes AMBIGUOUS bills. These political powerful bills that are comissioned into LAW that don't recognise? the effects of peoples personal lives, are the problem!!

Which is POLITICAL MADNESS GONE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some bills are evidently controlling and are urgently put into LAW. NO LAW should be an intrusion of privacy! That comissions in peoples personal lives, so these political parties can get the recognition? Which is POLITICAL MADNESS!

GOD BLESS Acts MP John Boscawen

21 Sep 2009 05:03p.m.

Craig Young wrote:

I'm beginning to wonder if there shouldm't be a private members bill outlawing the corporal punishment of already deceased equines...

21 Sep 2009 03:51p.m.

j wrote:

Well said Max - says a lot about the man when he thinks this is the way to raise profile and make a name for himself.

Thanks once again Epsom for these idiotic MP's.

21 Sep 2009 03:15p.m.

Max wrote:

Mr Boscawen is a nasty individual. Fancy basing your whole career on trying to bring back the hitting of kids.