Coalition of Concerned Citizens

Coalition of Concerned Citizens

The Coalition of Concerned Citizens was a New Zealand Christian conservative pressure group, and one of several attempts to form pro-censorship, anti-abortion, anti-gay and sex education opponents into a comprehensive social conservative political coalition. Its founders included Keith Hay, Peter Tait and Barry Reed.

The CCC was originally formed to fight the New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Act, although its membership also unsuccessfully tried to defeat David Lange's Fourth Labour Government at the general election of 1987, through infiltration of New Zealand National Party branches.

According to Laurie Guy, the coalition was disproportionately dominated by members of the Reformed Churches of New Zealand and Pentecostals, and suffered from political naivety.[1] It produced a newsletter called Coalition Courier. Some of its more moderate membership left and joined the Christian Heritage Party (later renamed Christian Heritage New Zealand, now defunct) after 1989, disgruntled at the group's perceived tendencies toward right-wing extremism. During its existence, the organisation also produced an anti-gay booklet entitled The Social Effects of Homosexuality (1985), which relied significantly on the work of controversial US psychologist Paul Cameron.[2]

The group ceased to exist in the late 1990s.

See also

Further reading

  • C. James Bacon: The Social Effects of Homosexuality: Christchurch: Coalition of Concerned Citizens: 1985: ISBN 0-908747-00-4

References

  1. ^ Guy, Laurie: "Evangelicals and the Homosexual Law Reform Debate" Stimulus (November 2005):13(4):69-77: [1]
  2. ^ Guy, Laurie (2003). Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand, 1960-1984. Victoria University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0864734389. 

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