Archbishops oppose New Zealand Sunday trading changes: CEN 1.23.08 January 23, 2008
Posted by geoconger in Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand & Polynesia, Church of England Newspaper, Politics.trackback
| THE ARCHBISHOPS of New Zealand have urged the rejection of government plans to liberalise the country’s Easter Sunday trading laws, arguing that the view that man was merely a captive creature of his appetites was morally demeaning and bad social policy.
In a Jan 19 statement issued in response to a government request for comments on the proposed Easter Trading and Holidays Legislation bill, Archbishops Brown Turei and David Moxon (pictured) said: “Enough is enough.” “We need to draw a line under this recurrent discussion about Easter Sunday trading and to move on,” and not let the market economy drive the social and moral structure of New Zealand society. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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