While I inevitably disagree with the substance of Maxim's views (and, quite frankly, find much of their "research" dubious), they are rather good at creating wizz-bang web features which assist with the debate and dialogue on some political social issues. See, for example,
Letter Writing Wizard,
Change Agent Toolkit, and
NZ Votes. Of course, while these are no doubt intended to be used by moral conservatives, they are also useful for social liberals!
One of the more recent ones I've come across (hat-tip:
Tony via
Jeremy) is a
wizard showing how MPs votes on the "conscience" issues in the last Parliament. You can input how you would have voted and see which MPs shared the same views.
Out of interest, my votes would have been as follows:
Civil Union Bill: Yes
Relationships Bill: Yes
Death With Dignity Bill: Yes
Prostitution Reform: Yes
Sale of Liquor Act (Youth Alcohol Harm Reduction): No
Care of Children Amendment: No
This apparently puts me in the same league as the following MPs:
- Deborah Coddington
- Rodney Hide
- Heather Roy
- Ken Shirley
- Sue Bradford
- Rod Donald
- Jeanette Fitzsimons
- Keith Locke
- Nandor Tanczos
- Metiria Turei
- Tim Barnett
- Steve Chadwick
- Helen Duncan
- George Hawkins
- Dave Hereora
- Marian Hobbs
- Pete Hodgson
- Judith Tizard
- Russell Fairbrother (who abstained on one vote).
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