http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/are-you-ready-yet/ Standing Just Where We Are Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.justice.net.nz/justwiki/are-you-ready-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-3891 JimHunt Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:08:13 +0000 http://justice.anglican.org.nz/kaupapa-maori/are-you-ready-yet/#comment-3891 The situation is made difficult in a democracy where the majority vote counts, and now, with attention being given to other racial groups, I notice that no on remembers that we pakeha learned from living alongside Maori, that they all need to keep up their language and culture. The new people need to learn about the Treaty. On this website we are discussing as Anglicans, who have tried to get round the majority/minority thing by have a Tikanga Maori with equal voting rights alongside Tikanga Pakeha and Polynesia. My wife and I try to worship in the nearest Tikanga Maori church about once a month to keep up relations, but we find it difficult to persuade others from either side to try this for themselves. Let's work on this sort of thing as church people and get to know each other locally as well as in General Synod. Its a better place to start than at the Beehive. That comes later. The situation is made difficult in a democracy where the majority vote counts, and now, with attention being given to other racial groups, I notice that no on remembers that we pakeha learned from living alongside Maori, that they all need to keep up their language and culture. The new people need to learn about the Treaty.
On this website we are discussing as Anglicans, who have tried to get round the majority/minority thing by have a Tikanga Maori with equal voting rights alongside Tikanga Pakeha and Polynesia. My wife and I try to worship in the nearest Tikanga Maori church about once a month to keep up relations, but we find it difficult to persuade others from either side to try this for themselves. Let’s work on this sort of thing as church people and get to know each other locally as well as in General Synod. Its a better place to start than at the Beehive. That comes later.

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