Homosexual agenda blasted by Tamaki

23rd June 2005

By MIKE MATHER in Rotorua

The name of the show may have been Nation Under Siege, but it was the Government and the media that were the targets of a 45-minute bagging from Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki in Rotorua last night.

The self-styled bishop addressed a meeting of about 400 people in the Rotorua Boys' High School Hall, in which he left the audience in no doubt about his views on the "evil Government" and its "radical homosexual agenda," as well as the media's practice of "modern-day witchcraft".

Rotorua was the latest stop on Mr Tamaki's Nation Under Siege tour with Destiny New Zealand party leader Richard Lewis, which is being held to drum up support prior to this year's general election.

Helen Clark's government bore much of the responsibility for the decline in the nation's moral values, he told the crowd - particularly since the introduction of the Civil Union bill, now the Civil Union Act.

"Sodomy had a 10-year prison sentence [in New Zealand] once upon a time.

"You thought it was just so a few people in a corner could practise their homosexuality . . . we knew the deeper agenda.

"They ordered it law so they could get your child and your grandchild."

Mr Tamaki also lambasted the majority of the Government's MPs for failing to acknowledge the Bible when they were sworn in to Parliament.

"One even swore on the Koran - in my Christian nation."

Many of the Bishop's pronouncements were met with fervent shouts of "that's right" and "awesome" from supporters interspersed throughout the crowd.

The media were also guilty of perpetuating the moral decline, he said. "[They] give full coverage to everything that's negative.

"The media had also been "allowed to get away with portraying us as Nazis and haters and a cult."

Bishop Tamaki speaks to the Daily Post in tomorrow's edition.