Society For The Promotion Of Community Standards

The Society's objectives include the encouragement of "self-respect and the dignity of the human person, made in the image of God", the "recognition of the sanctity of human life and its preservation in all stages", and the promotion of "wholesome personal values, including strong family life and the benefits of lasting marriage". {Link without Title}

SPCS has issued media releases opposing civil unions, hate speech bans, the repeal of section 59 of the Crimes Act, and the decriminalisation of sex work. The SPCS has repeatedly criticised ''.

On the other hand, the SPCS was critical of the OFLC's ban of an edition of the student magazine '' reduced to permit its exhibition to fifth-form (year 11) students despite Criticisms of the film's graphic violence. As a result of a review brought by Hoyts , the distributor of '' The Passion Of The Christ '', the film's rating was reduced from R16 to R15, which meant that most fifth-form students could view it.

SPCS is also strongly opposed to lesbian and gay rights. In 2000, they scored a rare success when the Court Of Appeal Of New Zealand ruled that the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 could not be interpreted to ban two American anti-gay videos produced by Jeremiah Films .

SEE ALSO

Office Of Film And Literature Classification (New Zealand)#Criticism

BIBLIOGRAPHY

''New Zealand Administrative Reports'' (NZAR). The NZAR contain tribunal and court decisions related to New Zealand censorship law (1984- ).

Carolyn Moynihan: ''A Stand for Decency: Patricia Bartlett and the Society for Promotion of Community Standards'': SPCS: Upper Hutt: 1995: ISBN: 0473033402

(This is a biographical work related to the life of the late SPCS Secretary Patricia Bartlett , including much detail about relevant censorship policy and law from her organisation's perspective.)

EXTERNAL LINKS

Society for the Promotion of Community Standards

http://www.censorship.govt.nz Office of Film and Literature Classification (NZ), the government censorship agency.

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