It looks like Gordon Copeland has said “To hell with you” to Richard Lewis and Brian Tamaki.
Earlier this week Brian Tamaki, Bishop of the somewhat controversial Destiny Church, announced that the political wing - Destiny NZ - will be de-registered. But then he announced that there will be a new Christian political party and the leader of the now gone Destiny NZ, Richard Lewis, will be co-leader with yet to be named partner.
This took Gordon Copeland off guard, but he still announced that he was the “secret” co-leader (not long after).
The downfall (if you can call it that seeming the new political party doesn’t even have a name) continued, with Copeland saying that it was pretty bad, especially since now he has aligned himself with the worst Church to be aligned with. His supporters urged him not to be with them.
It’s funny how now anyone aligning themselves with Destiny Church is almost performing political suicide. It also concerned me how John Key (leader of National) kept handling the question about forming a coalition with the new Christian party. You could pretty much see he wanted to say “no,” so why didn’t he?
