Jones Dail: Relationships (Statutory References) Bill — In Committee 
Jones Dail: Relationships (Statutory References) Bill — In Committee 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
: 
 At the last election New Zealand First put out a Labour Party debit card where we predicted certain things would happen during this term of office if the Labour Party was elected to Government. We said for example on Labour’s debit card that Labour would legalise prostitution and soliciting. We warned the people about that and it is exactly what has happened. We said that Labour would legislate for gay marriages. Well that is happening too. We also said that Labour would provide further large payments for prisoners. That is happening too—$130000 worth. 
Hon Richard Prebble 
: You’d better look at next year’s! 
DAIL JONES 
: All I can say is that people should watch this space for the forthcoming election because I am absolutely sure that it will include a statement that the Labour Party will legislate for gay adoptions—[ 
Interruption 
] I bet that Labour members will not say that they will do so but we have heard it virtually by the silence of the Labour Party’s senior whip today. When she was asked by Dr Nick Smith from the National Party whether she would take a little bet on a bottle of Nelson wine as to whether the Labour Party would legislate for gay adoptions in the next term if it should ever get that opportunity she was silent on the issue. It is a very unusual state of affairs for Jill Pettis to be silent on that particular point. 
Jill Pettis 
: We do not make policy on the floor of Parliament. 
DAIL JONES 
: Perhaps Labour members make their policy on some other floor and in what state they do so I am not absolutely certain. 
Hon Richard Prebble 
: Secret caucus meetings! 
DAIL JONES 
: Secret caucus meetings where only a few people who are party to Helen Clark and that coterie of lesbians and homosexuals make the decisions in these particular areas and tell the Labour Party what will happen. It is absolutely certain that the majority of the Labour Party members get no choice on these issues. They are selected on a particular basis. Apart from the Hon Taito Phillip Field whom I must congratulate on his earlier voting on this particular bill the Labour members have done as they have been told to do as far as I can see. But as I say New Zealand First predicted what would happen and it has happened. 
Of course the history of this Labour Government is very clear. In its first term it changed the immigration rules to allow for lesbians and homosexuals to get preference to come into New Zealand. That was in the immigration regulations and I took it up without success at the Regulations Review Committee. We have seen what the Government has done in the prostitution legislation and the civil union legislation and what it will do in the forthcoming adoption legislation. Even in the civil union legislation Labour members are legislating in favour of single homosexuals and single lesbians. Those people can still get the single person’s rate on their social welfare benefits whereas if one is in a de facto heterosexual relationship one gets paid at the married couple’s rate. So despite rushing everything through Labour still prefers and give favours to single homosexuals and single lesbians in this bill. Those members just cannot stop themselves from doing that and that is made very clear in the legislation. 
This Parliament should be setting decent standards for families and for other areas of society as well—we should be setting standards overall. But that is not occurring under this Labour Government propped up by the United Future party. Although I have the greatest respect for Paul Adams and Murray Smith in terms of their views if one is going to be a Christian one should be a Christian. I was asked at the last election what I would do if it came to a question of Christian values. My answer was very simple. “I am going to Parliament. I am going to Caesar’s court and I’ll do what was said in the Gospel: when you’re shown the coin with Caesar’s head on it you give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and you give unto God what is God’s.” Well I am in Caesar’s court here and I know that but I will try to do what is right as well as I can—unlike the United Future members who said they would do the Christian thing and of course have done only what Caesar wants. Caesar in the name of Peter Dunne and Helen Clark has told them what to do and they have conformed with Caesar’s law despite the fact that before the election they said they would do things in the Christian way.That is obvious to anyone who has the slightest understanding of the matter. United Future members have the cheek to say that when they are returned at the next election they will stand up for Christian values. They have had 3 years in which to prove that and regrettably Christian values have taken a savage beating all the time that the United Future party has been in this House. All the things that have been passed have been passed only because United Future has propped up this Labour Government.