Category Archives: Latest News
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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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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...
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New Zealand marriage rates lowest since 1960s, new data reveals
May 6, 2020
NZ Herald 5 May 2020 Family First Comment: “Family First NZ has issued a statement citing a correlation between a decline in marriage rates and an impact on children and families. It warns the drop...
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Polygamy Advocates Lay Groundwork for Civil Rights Revolution
May 6, 2020
The Daily Signal 26 April 2020 Family First Comment: AS PREDICTED – unfortunately…… This has led to “the American Psychological Association’s creation last year of its Consensual Non-Monogamy Task Force, formed to destigmatize such relationships and...
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Minimal Interest For Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
May 5, 2020
“Bob McCoskrie – Family First NZ” 5 May 2020 Seven years on from the definition of marriage being changed, statistics show that the demand for same-sex ‘marriage’ has been insignificant, and has had to be boosted...
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Bill to decriminalize polygamy earns unanimous approval from Utah Senate committee
February 16, 2020
The Salt Lake Tribune 12 February 2020 Family First Comment: As we predicted would happen…. Remove the gender. Why not the number? “Ora Barlow, who was raised in a polygamous community, said she realized that all...
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Brides marry themselves at Tahunanui Beach in ceremony of self-acceptance
February 5, 2020
Stuff co.nz 2 February 2020 Family First Comment: This is marriage ‘equality’. If you change the gender requirements, you can also change the number requirements. Hey, why not marry a bridge? Oh wait, that’s already happened. ...
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“Christian florist: My longtime customer was a friend, then he sued me over his gay wedding”
October 9, 2019
USA Today 8 October 2019 Family First Comment: “Why would people want to force me to celebrate a wedding that violates my faith? Wouldn’t they want someone able to devote themselves to it? I wouldn’t want...
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APA: We’d Like to Teach the World to Swing…
July 9, 2019
Family Research Council 8 July 2019 Family First Comment: Monogamy is now bigotry! If you wanted confirmation that the American Psychological Ass’n has been hijacked by radicals, here it is…. “People who practice ‘consensual non-monogamy,’ as...
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Folau’s prospects bolstered by landmark religious freedom ruling in Britain
July 8, 2019
Sydney Morning Herald 4 July 2019 Family First Comment: The English Court of Appeal has decided: “The mere expression of religious views about sin does not necessarily connote discrimination.” #FreeToBelieve Britain’s second-highest court handed down a...