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New Zealand’s plans for an anti-transgender law face opposition from God · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 2: Pride Daily. Hi there, I'm keV McGrath. Coming up the
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  Speaker 2: latest country to ban conversion therapy. There's that New Zealand's
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  Speaker 2: plans for an anti transgender law are coming up against
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  Speaker 2: the public and god. Ten thousand people have marched across
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  Speaker 2: five cities there opposing the snappily titled definitions of Woman
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  Speaker 2: and Man Amendment bill, which basically wants to raise trans identity,
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  Speaker 2: and a church in Auckland has put up a billboard
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  Speaker 2: saying we don't care what's in your pants, and neither
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  Speaker 2: should the government.
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  Speaker 3: My heartfelt theological response to such time wasting politics is
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  Speaker 3: simply to ask, where is the love in this?
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  Speaker 2: Reverend Richard bonifants from Saint Matthew and the City Church, where.
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  Speaker 3: Is God's radically inclusive love, calling us towards because I
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  Speaker 3: cannot accept for a second that the love which knows
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  Speaker 3: no boundaries, is any patience for this devisive bill.
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  Speaker 2: The plans have come from a radical right wing political party,
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  Speaker 2: Go Figure, and only past the first stage of parliamentary
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  Speaker 2: approval with a small majority New Zealand's governments accepting the
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  Speaker 2: public's views on this. Till July. Second Pride Daily. Next.
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  Speaker 2: Conversion therapy is being banned in the Netherlands Parliament's upper house,
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  Speaker 2: The Senate has approved legislation prohibiting attempts to change a
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  Speaker 2: person's sexuality or gender identity through therapy. It was already
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  Speaker 2: against the law to try this with medication or shock therapy.
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  Speaker 2: the Year was Plugs Bunny. No time to tell you
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  Speaker 2: that catching the bus is now free for transgender people.
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