Many people in NZ consider the sexuality of their politicians to be irrelevant. If they do the job well, who cares who they go to bed with is the common refrain. Well, on the Kapiti Coast today we can see the effect of having a lesbian mayor.
Our council is trying to make it legal to be completely naked on all Kapiti Coast beaches as long as the nudity is not "lewd". Just merely being naked on a beach is not considered lewd behaviour. This is fully supported by our mayor who has said that
I am absolutely furious over this.
Did any elected councillor ever campaign over making our beaches naked? Of course they didn't. Most of them got elected because they were against water meters and were going to put in a dam to store some of Kapiti's water rather than letting it all go out to sea. Not a word on naked beaches.
So, this is an example where the virtue or lack thereof of the councillor is important. Someone who is lacking in virtue will not capable of governing for the common good. Instead we get the imposition of depraved values upon an unsuspecting community.
Our council is trying to make it legal to be completely naked on all Kapiti Coast beaches as long as the nudity is not "lewd". Just merely being naked on a beach is not considered lewd behaviour. This is fully supported by our mayor who has said that
"There will be no signage, they will have free rein. The beach is a place for the general public, as long as they are not being offensive they can be clothed or unclothed. The Human Rights Act supports anybody being there."I have two children whom I have been teaching all of their lives as to what is and isn't appropriate in public. We live right by the beach and spend quite a bit of time there during the summer. What am I supposed to do when naked people turn up? Tell the kids not to look and go home?
I am absolutely furious over this.
Did any elected councillor ever campaign over making our beaches naked? Of course they didn't. Most of them got elected because they were against water meters and were going to put in a dam to store some of Kapiti's water rather than letting it all go out to sea. Not a word on naked beaches.
So, this is an example where the virtue or lack thereof of the councillor is important. Someone who is lacking in virtue will not capable of governing for the common good. Instead we get the imposition of depraved values upon an unsuspecting community.
[...] the key to democracy is not free choice. As we know from the Weimar Republic, people can freely choose anything, even Hitler. The key, as our Founding Fathers knew, is virtue. Only a virtuous person is capable of rational consent because only a virtuous person's reason is unclouded by the habitual rationalizations of vice. Vice inevitably infects the faculty of judgment. No matter how democratic their institutions, morally enervated people cannot be free. And people who are enslaved to their passions inevitably become slaves to tyrants. Thus, our Founders predicated the success of democracy in America upon the virtue of the American people.Related Link: Pornography and the destruction of democracy ~ NZ Conservative