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Ruth Dyson
Welfare Minister Ruth Dyson's office says she never made
a speech which has been reported in the first edition of a new
on-line newspaper.
Ian Wishart's publication, TGIF Weekly, said the speech was
delivered to Victoria University students on May 6 and in it
Ms Dyson suggested Labour was developing policy that would
recognise polygamy and polyamory -- arrangements where people
have multiple wives or husbands.
The report, published on Friday, said the speech was evidence
of a hidden agenda of social engineering.
A spokesman for Ms Dyson told NZPA the speech was posted on a
government website in error.
He said the speech was written for Ms Dyson but she rejected
it.
"She never said it," the spokesman said.
"They (the comments) were in the speech that was posted but
she never gave that speech.
"It just unfortunately crept through the system and went out
as a speech she delivered, but it wasn't."
