WELLINGTON, NZ — A New Zealand member of parliament has joined the call for legislation to put a stop to public displays of the nude female form.Calling naked breasts “sleazy and an affront to common decency,” Kiwi Party MP Gordon Copeland said he is backing conservative family values organization Family First’s proposed amendment to the Summary Offences Act. The amendment would ban annual Wellington traditions like Boobs on Bikes and other public festivals that celebrate sexuality. According to Copeland, in the past the events have been allowed not because they contribute to the community, but because local authorities have had no way to prevent them.
“I’ve discussed this matter with the Wellington City Council and accept that, although the mayor and her council find the parade sleazy and an affront to common decency, they are legally unable to bring it to a halt,” he told Voxy.co.nz. “Likewise, I accept that the police are unable to act without the backing of the courts, who have already decided that the parade is not offensive, even though that view is contrary to that of the vast majority of decent Kiwis and their families.”
In Copeland’s view, the courts have sided with the wrong boobs.
“I for one am not prepared to sit idly by whilst we accommodate the lowest common denominator on these issues,” Copeland said in a prepared statement. “It is time to put the welfare of our children and families back where it belongs — as the number one priority in our nation.
“…[S]treet parades advertising the porn industry constitute ‘offensive behaviour,’ as that term is generally understood by mainstream New Zealand,” he added.
