Isn't it interesting that National chose this issue to make a big, expensive, public stand?
If they were equally fervent about keeping out other "immoral" elements, as they are about homosexual leaders, but they don't.
There are equally tiny elements in the adult leadership that are quite frankly racist, militarist, anti-semitic, abusive, fudimentalist, snobs, and what-have-you, and yet National hasn't made a big public show of hunting them down and keeping them out.
Could it be that National assumed this would get them a lot of free publicity, but are suddenly surprised when mu