SO IF IT'S NOT A RUDE QUESTION, WHO ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR IN THE ELECTION?

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"So who are you going to vote for in the election?" was the question I rudely asked of a fellow pro-lifer as we stood yesterday morning in the very cold and wet outside Hastings Hospital, holding posters of the "Love Them Both" variety in frozen fingers. (Thursday is baby-killing day at Hastings Hospital.)

He hadn't thought about it. That is, he knew he'd vote for Lawrence Yule, National MP for Hastings, who voted against New Zealand's dreadful abortion law on March 24 - the Feast of the Annunciation, for heaven's sake! - and against euthanasia. But as for his party vote, he didn't know. 

His might have been the sort of home where dinner parties were held but sex, religion and politics never mentioned and he's the  sort of guy who holds his cards close to his chest.  But I think if he knew what party he'd vote for he'd have said. 

We're both Catholics, traditional Catholics; Rad Trads, you might say. I said I'd noted that National's new leader, Todd Muller - also a Catholic - when questioned about his religious beliefs and abortion stated that the abortion question is now 'settled'. 

I've got news for you, bro. This infamous law must be repealed.

His religious beliefs do not inform his politics on issues such as euthanasia, abortion and the LGBT+ community. Todd Muller says while he voted against abortion and euthanasia, he wouldn’t seek to impose his beliefs on anyone else.

He told Newshub Nation he would not be seeking to overturn the changes introduced by recently passed legislation.

I am a person who holds values that are faith-based, but I have never – and will never, ever – stand up and critique anybody else’s personally-held values,”  Muller said.

“I never spoke on those issues when they came to the House because I did not believe that it was my job to stand up and talk to others who had a different view around their thinking.”

So what, Mr Muller, is an MP's job if it's not to 'stand up and talk to others who had a different view'? 

“I think they will find me someone who is authentic and is completely comfortable with anybody’s life choices and it doesn’t in any way impact the value set that I have that sits inside me.”

And how, Mr Muller, does being 'completely comfortable with anybody's life choices' sit with "This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you" (Jn 12, 15)? If you love others as Christ loves you, how can you be comfy with another's life choices - like abortion - which as a Catholic you know if not repented mean their eternity in hell?

Maybe Mr Muller doesn't know that. It seems he belongs to the Church of Nice where abortion hardly rates a mention, and hell not at all. And his deputy is Nikki Kaye, whose voting record on abortion makes her a babykiller par excellence. 

Nup. I won't be voting National. But who else is there, for a Christian? New Conservatives (leader Leighton Baker, deputy Eliot Ikilei) are the only credible option. New Conservatives are Christian in just about everything but name. In their policy on abortion they say:

"A person's beating heart has been considered a sign of life for millenia. The child in the womb, therefore, must be given the same human right to life as the mother if a heartbeat is detected." 

Leighton Baker

New Conservatives are Christian in just about everything but name. In their policy on abortion they say:

"A person's beating heart has been considered a sign of life for millenia. The child in the womb, therefore, must be given the same human right to life as the mother if a heartbeat is detected." 

From New Conservatives' abortion policy statement

Maori musician Billy Te Kahika, a Seventh Day Adventist, is being touted as charismatic and wooing crowds, but ahem, his NZ Public Party was formed only last month. And isn't even registered yet. But 'Billy TK' has a big asset in Hilary Kieft, who campaigned for parental notification for teenage pregnancies (which was opposed by National's Nikki Kaye). 

Kieft says, "I am sold out for jesus (sic) 24/7. I am a prolife activist that is living for the kingdom."

New Conservatives, who've been going since 2011, are straight up: 

"In the (Labour/NZ First/Greens) coalition's apparent attempt to lead our people's attention away from Labour's increasing incompetence, Ms Ardern has now moved to an appalling new articulation of authoritarianism; the usage of direct military power for political purpose," says Deputy Leader Elliot Ikilei.

"New Zealand now shares a border control style with such nations as North Korea and Venezuela, with military control of our borders during peacetime never having occurred in living memory. Combined with the latest expansions of power, especially with section 11, government troops can now enter homes, schools, churches, marae, and give direct orders to our own people.

"We have never seen such a direction for the military to have  powers over New Zealand men, women and children, while under the direct command of Labour politicians. We now enter a time of direct and imminent threat to our nation's freedom.

Eliot  Ikilei

"The expansion of state control over the movement and tracking of a nation’s people is not a new idea, but simply a progression in the policies historically attached to the ideological children of Marx: that of socialism, communism and fascism.” 

Billy Te Kahika

'Billy TK' formed his NZ Public Party last month "in response to the blatant injustice and tyranny being hurled upon the NZ people by the Labour/NZ First/Green Government". More than a whiff of naivety here, methinks. He's engaging in talks with all minor parties "to get to learn more about them in hopes that we will come together". Well yes, that's what has to happen. The truly conservative vote is building in this country and it can no longer go to National, who simply don't deserve it. But in time for September 19??? Watch this space ...

However, although NZ Conservatives vigorously oppose Jacinda Ardern's iron-fist-in-the-velvet- glove approach to the (mis)management of COVID-19, where - right across the spectrum of New Zealand politics - is recognition of what will, God willing, bring this nation to its knees? COVID-19 may be a 'plandemic', or a 'shamdemic', but 23 DEATHS DO NOT A PANDEMIC MAKE.

Why hasn't Todd Muller, for example, or any other politician, called out the media in this country for their constant refrain of woes, misfortune, cancellations, business collapse, and generally deep and dire distress all 'due to COVID-19'?  None of it is due to COVID-19, it's due to this Government's hijacking of a nasty flu bug. 

The reason surely must be that the polls are telling them most Kiwis adore Ardern - and the reason for that is, the media tell Kiwis that Ardern is Adorable. We're being taken for a bunch of suckers, people.

We could pray to today's saint, Apostle and Martyr St Thomas. By the grace of God, he finally recognised the Truth.

"My Lord and my God!"