Category Archives: News
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Harvard Law pushes “polyamory and the law”
August 9, 2021
Harvard Law Today 3 August 2021 Family First Comment: As predicted…. Here it comes: “Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition, also known as PLAC, was established in the fall of 2020 by a psychologist and five lawyers focused...
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Is sharp drop in marriages in 2020 due to COVID?
August 6, 2021
COVID-19 likely cause of sharp drop in marriages in 2020 Stats NZ 5 August 2021 Family First Comment: We won’t truly know until this time next year when we can see the trend and whether people...
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Blackpool Council is fined £109,000 for ‘religious discrimination’
July 21, 2021
Blackpool Council is fined £109,000 for ‘religious discrimination’ after it removed posters for Christian festival following LGBT social media campaign over organiser’s views on same-sex marriage Daily Mail 21 July 2021 Family First Comment: Blackpool Council...
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Christian florist SCOTUS decision ‘devastating’
July 17, 2021
SCOTUS decision on refusing service to same-sex couple was ‘devastating,’ Christian florist says Fox News 15 July 2021 Family First Comment: Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman is encouraging others to maintain their faith in God as she...
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Outcry over South Africa’s multiple husbands proposal
June 28, 2021
BBC News 27 June 2021 Family First Comment: As predicted. It’s called ‘marriage equality’. “South Africa has one of the world’s most liberal constitutions, embracing same-sex marriages for all and polygamy for men…. Gender rights activists...
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Sorry, Harvard, fathers still matter — including Black fathers
June 22, 2021
USA Today 17 June 2021 Family First Comment: It was Fathers Day in the US last Sunday. This excellent op-ed pushes back on the left revisionist logic that married, two-parent families don’t matter “Progressives are calling...
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Perth twins Anna and Lucy DeCinque get engaged to same man
June 16, 2021
NZ Herald 14 June 2021 Family First Comment: But but but…. they assured us that it was never about ‘group’ marriage! “As Australia doesn’t allow three people to get married, the trio are looking at other...
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State broadcaster RNZ does ‘sales pitch’ on polygamy / polyamory
June 3, 2021
Centrepoint: Neither free nor loving Radio NZ News 31 May 2021 Family First Comment: Our state broadcaster uses the recent TV documentary on Centrepoint to explain polyamory in detail and all its ‘benefits’. The new ‘marriage...
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Jacinda’s wedding sends an important societal message
May 20, 2021
Bob McCoskrie – National Director, Family First NZ In January 2018, Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy with boyfriend Clarke Gayford outside their Auckland home to an adoring national and international media. We all celebrated the...
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FAMILY MATTERS: Jacinda’s marriage sends an important societal message
May 19, 2021
It’s official. Wedding bells will be ringing at the end of the year for our Prime Minister. We should celebrate this announcement – both for the couple and their daughter – but also because it...
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B.C. judge orders second mother declared a third parent to child of polyamorous trio
April 30, 2021
CBC 26 April 2021 Family First Comment: Well, we did warn you about the slippery slope…. “A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ordered that all three members of a polyamorous “triad” should be registered as...
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Parent and child couple trying to overturn New York’s anti-incest laws, arguing it ‘diminishes their humanity’
April 14, 2021
NewsHub 14 April 2021 A parent and child have reportedly asked a New York court permission to be married, claiming it would “diminish their humanity” if they couldn’t. The unusual request was filed by the...
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Muslim scholars slam French call on same-sex marriage
March 29, 2021
AA.com 27 March 2021 – Ibrahim Mukhtar Family First Comment: French Minister of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, made televised remarks, saying imams of mosques in France “must recognize in their sermons the right to marriage for...
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When your belief in marriage results in job loss & court (UK)
March 4, 2021
The Coalition for Marriage in their latest newsletter have highlighted a number of cases where people who disagree with same-sex marriage have been punished in their careers and occupations, despite recent legal victories, and despite...
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First family in California with THREE dads on their child’s birth certificate
December 21, 2020
Daily Mail 13 December 2020 Family First Comment: Somebody needs to give the authorities a biology lesson about how babies are actually created. But we did warn you. This is a natural consequence of marriage...
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Charities Board Still Gunning to Deregister Family First
September 28, 2020
Media Release 25 September 2020 Family First New Zealand has been notified that the Charities Board intend to appeal the recent decision in the Wellington Court of Appeal which opposed deregistration of Family First New...
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A Win For Freedom Of Speech & Belief In NZ
August 27, 2020
Media Release 27 August 2020 Family First NZ has won their appeal in the Wellington Court of Appeal against deregistration from the Charities Register. “This decision is a win for the freedom of speech and...
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VALUE YOUR VOTE 2020 – Out Now!
July 17, 2020
Media Release 16 July 2020 Hot off the press is our brand new resource Value Your Vote 2020. This is the fifth election where we have provided this popular voting resource for families. The 2020...
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A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships
July 3, 2020
The New York Times 2 July 2020 Family First Comment: As we predicted. If gender doesn’t matter, why should number? “Mr. Scott, the councilman, said he had been inundated by calls and messages all day,...
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Three exes battle over $2.2m Auckland house after polyamorous relationship breaks up
May 25, 2020
NZ Herald 22 May 2020 Family First Comment: Watch this space… “Three people shared a home and a bed for 15 years, but their relationship isn’t recognised by law… The court ruling noted that polyamorous couples...