N.C.C. study questioned
A probe by the National Council of Churches into efforts by extreme Rightwing groups to take over school boards and local organisations has been seen by the Integrity Centre as an attack on the Integrity Campaign. A spokesman for the centre in Christchurch, Mr Neville Rush, said the National Council of Churches had “taken yet another step to alienate itself from the grassroots Church members."
The study is being made by the council’s Auckland-based research arm, the Church and Society Commission. The commission will present its first working paper on the study to the council’s
next executive meeting in Wellington at the end of the month. “Do they include the Integrity Campaign as Right-wing?” said Mr Rush. To launch a probe into the activities of Rightwing groups would be all very well if anyone knew what was meant by this term, he said. The council seemed to have more in common with world revolutionary movements than with “God’s kingdom of righteousness, justice and virtue.” Mr Rush suggested the council should conduct a “thorough” probe through its own ranks on the activities of Left-wing Marxist extremists.
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