The moral Right
Sir, — When it comes to a society of the sort Ray Spring describes (“The Press,” February 10), "where people are watched, names are carefully filed for future use... people’s opinions are State property” in a “fascist State” in which people live in fear of “a midnight knock on fee door,” I suggest there is
more to fear from the Concerned Citizens Coalition than the New Zealand National Council of Churches. Public statements by moral Right advocates during the last 18 months and more suggest politicisation of punitive, coercive attitudes towards the diversity of human wants, needs and views which taken together make up what we care to call “society.” The N.C.C., at least, seems to be trying to address the problems that arise from that diversity in a humane, constructive way, which is more than can be said of the so-called moral majority. — Yours, etc.,
MICHAEL HAWTHORNE. Wellington, February 11, 1986.
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Press, 15 February 1986, Page 18
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154The moral Right Press, 15 February 1986, Page 18
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