Like I said earlier, as a nine year old, my church led a petition to stop the passing of homosexual law reform, a church that aligned themselves with MPs from this House who told my whānau, who told us to "go back to the gutters, to go back to the sewers where you belong." And I'm grateful today that I am connected to a church that came out last week and said this: "Christians are called to be like God and therefore to be living examples of his love in action in this world. Conversion practices, which have been shown to be both ineffective and deeply harmful, are the antithesis of this." And then it goes on to say, "We are told [in the Scriptures] to 'Accept one another … just as Christ accepted [us] … and to be 'sympathetic, love one another, [to] be compassionate, [to be] humble' " That is what my God says and I am proud to follow them. 