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Chris Hipkins: Labour leader dismisses anti-LGBTQ protests as 'pathetic'
Published 1 year, 5 months ago
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Labour's leader has labelled anti-LGBTQ protests 'pathetic'.
People linked to Destiny Church stormed a children's drag event at a west Auckland library, leading to some 30 people had being barricaded inside.
Later, police intervened when a group disrupted Pride Parade festivities on Ponsonby Road with a haka.
Chris Hipkins says we have free speech in New Zealand, but it's not that.
He says that sort of behaviour isn't an exercise in free speech - it's shouting other people down and stopping them from what they're free to do in a democratic country.
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