Jones Dail: Civil Union Bill — Procedure Third Reading 
Jones Dail: Civil Union Bill — Procedure Third Reading 
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DAIL JONES (NZ First) 
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 Parliament is a place where we are supposed to set principles and standards. The Civil Union Bill has a conscience vote and I believe that the principle we must set is that marriage can be the relationship of only a man and a woman with a view to having children. I believe that that is a basic human right for a man a woman and their children. We have had many submissions to the Justice and Electoral Committee on this bill and I refer to the submission of John Sax in which he made an excellent point in reference to the New Zealand Government’s civil union website which is headed: “love doesn’t discriminate … neither should the law.” Mr Sax correctly states in his submission: “… that is a lie.” He claims that if we love our children we must discriminate between good and bad right and wrong good behaviour and bad behaviour and good unions and bad unions. The Government website also states that the law should not discriminate but of course the law must and does discriminate. It discriminates right from wrong and it encourages good outcomes and minimises bad outcomes. It respects the freedom liberty and rights of all people for the good of all people not for the good of a select few. The Government website like so much of the other Government propaganda that is forced on New Zealand today in the words of Mr Sax is a lie. 
My colleague the Hon Brian Donnelly proposed a referendum. Every New Zealand First member supported that referendum and a large number of other members of this House also supported it. I was disappointed that Mr Richard Worth did not support it although he had an amendment that contained a referendum provision and every New Zealand First member of this House supported that. 
I will refer now to some of the things that happened during the Committee stage. I must congratulate the following members of the Labour Party: the Hon Taito Phillip Field the honourable John Tamihere the Hon Damien O’Connor the Hon Harry Duynhoven and the honourable members Clayton Cosgrove and Ross Robertson for their opposition to the bill. If certain movements in the south Auckland area are not to take foot then credit for that will go largely I believe to the Hon Taito Phillip Field and the honourable member Ross Robertson rather than to any action of the Rt Hon Helen Clark. I also say that the honourable Tariana Turia largely voted against this bill although she did not support the referendum provision. When we hear talk of what future referenda there may be I suppose I am not surprised at that. 
This bill came into the House on 21 June 2004 and it is receiving its third reading today less than 6 months later. It is a bill that affects fewer than 10000 people and there is absolutely no reason why it should have been given priority over bills that apply to all New Zealanders some of which have been sitting on the Order Paper since last year and for more than 18 months. This bill is really very simply a present to the coterie of homosexuals and lesbians who surround the Rt Hon Helen Clark. It has cost the taxpayer about $10 million. It is the gift of a Labour Prime Minister who has no regard for the wishes of the vast majority of New Zealanders and who has no regard for the public good of New Zealand. One of the major advantages currently available to homosexuals and lesbians is their diversity but this bill as the Hon Bill English points out removes all diversity from all forms of relationships and makes life dreadfully boring—but of course that is what we expect from social leadership which likes to put everyone in the one straitjacket. 
New Zealand First has offered the people a referendum on this issue. I repeat the words of the Rt Hon Winston Peters that the only way for anyone to get full public approval for this type of behaviour is by way of a referendum. If a referendum supported it then I would vote in the House to give effect to the result of that referendum.