The Spinoff – Gloriavale: Where a woman’s place is submissive and pregnant

The Spinoff – Gloriavale: Where a woman’s place is submissive and pregnant

By Callum Henderson – The Spinoff – 28/07/2016

Calum Henderson asks why our taxpayer money continues to fund rose-tinted documentaries about the sexist hellhole known as Gloriavale.

Our annual visit to Gloriavale is becoming a weird New Zealand television tradition. Every winter for the past three years we’ve been offered another rare glimpse inside the controversial West Coast Christian community, through a series of documentary specials which increasingly seem to be little more than a NZ On Air-funded PR exercise for one of the country’s richest churches.

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