Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
heritage-laden
She learnt her city planning from the Beijing Municipal Government? "Heritage? Fetch me ten thousand migrant workers and give them a sledgehammer each!"
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
the BORA only applies to state institutions, which the church isn’t
Tangential question: What about the Anglican Church? It is a member of the communion whose head also happens to be our head of state. And Christian (my impression is specifically Anglican) prayers, hymns and other rites and rituals have formed a part of many state ceremonies over the years, apparently still do. Where's a constitutional lawyer when you need one... We've still got a bit of cleaning up to do before we have a fully secular state.
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Speaker: The gathering of the small tribe, in reply to Sacha,
yet our book sales are amongst the highest in the world, aren't they?
Unfortunately buying and reading books is not the same is giving a toss about our writers. We can be a strange and self-contradictory people that way, us Aotearoans.
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Ah, right, I think I know the one. Thanks.
Oh, but your link didn't work. An extra full stop crept onto the end, or perhaps the full stop ending your sentence decided to insert itself into the link. Doesn't matter, though, it was easy enough to fix.
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Field Theory: And they're off!, in reply to Al C,
Fair enough. 2008 wasn't bad for Olympic coverage here, either, probably a similar reason.
But tell me, how is it you're listed as having made 0 posts, when clearly you've made one? Welcome, 0 poster. Let's get that number a little higher.
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Ooh, front page of the Beijing News for China's and two of South Korea's Olympic badminton match fixers. Lots more inside, as well.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
but now I just want to sleep for a week
Sleep man, and know that you and your whanau have the support and love of millions.
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Capture: Cinema Scoped, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Thanks, Kyle, but:
maybe 10 or 12 years ago
That would be about the time I was starting my life in China. I certainly don't remember a Rialto when I lived in Dunedin. Where is it? That doorway looks both impressive and a little familiar.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
I assume you mean they’d be free, whilst acting as a civil functionary, to refuse to marry those that do not conform with their religious beliefs.
I do believe it has already been established that celebrants are not required to marry every couple who comes to them with a marriage licence, and that there are plenty of perfectly legal reasons to decline to marry a couple.
Because otherwise that whole religious belief structure thing would be stopping them from applying.
Only if you assume that all forms of religious belief include the belief that homosexuality and gay marriage are sinful. Religious belief is far more diverse than that, and I'm pretty sure religious gay couples would be able to find a person of the cloth willing to marry them.
