Tony Milne quite correctly nails Rodney Hide over ACT’s block-vote for the religious-right sponsored attempts to narrow marriage; how does the party of less government and personal choice justify the legal removal of same from a whole class of citizens?
It’s deeply disturbing, though, to learn just how much influence the Bretheren are buying themselves in Parliament (so much National can’t even keep track of the money!). Given National’s involvement with them in the last election, one might ask does Don Brash better love “mainstream New Zealand”, or a few hundred religious nuts?