Rainbow Wellington - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:33:34 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Rainbow Wellington - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Salvation Army has apologised for 1986 stance on Homosexual law reform https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/15/salvation-army-has-apologised-for-1986-stance-on-homosexual-law-reform/ Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:30:09 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=27527 The Salvation Army has apologised to members of gay, lesbian and bisexual communities for the hardline official position the church took during the 1986 homosexual law reform campaign. It made its apology in a joint release distributed by Rainbow Wellington and the Salvation Army. Both organisations say they want a better cooperative future. Tony Simpson, Read more

Salvation Army has apologised for 1986 stance on Homosexual law reform... Read more]]> The Salvation Army has apologised to members of gay, lesbian and bisexual communities for the hardline official position the church took during the 1986 homosexual law reform campaign.

It made its apology in a joint release distributed by Rainbow Wellington and the Salvation Army.

Both organisations say they want a better cooperative future.

Tony Simpson, chair of the Wellington-based Rainbow Wellington and Campbell Roberts, head of the Army's Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit, were both involved in drafting the position statements of their respective groups.

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