Millionaire businessman John Sax is to spend thousands of dollars on a newspaper ad campaign encouraging voters to vote against the government because of their support for same-sex couples. Sax, who last year orchestrated an anti-civil union letter to MPs signed by Auckland mayor Dick Hubbard, then-Air NZ CEO Ralph Norris, author Alan Duff and others, will spend at least $24,000 on advertisements in newspapers from Auckland to Invercargill tomorrow listing how MPs voted on civil unions, prostitution and the Care of Children Act, which recognised the parenting rights of same-sex couples with children. "I think Labour has done an excellent job of economic management," Sax told the NZ Herald. "But when it comes back to social policy it's quite different. When you look at the voting records there's a very different ideological agenda." Sax's anti-civil union letter to MPs last year urged them to dump the Civil Union Act because gay parents were more likely to abuse and murder their children. He provided no statistical back-up for his claim.
Credit: GayNZ.com News Staff
First published: Thursday, 15th September 2005 - 12:00pm