This Friday, Irish citizens will decide whether to approve two amendments to their Constitution: one, legally redefining “family” as resting on “durable relationships” rather than exclusively on marriage; and another, reformulating an aspiration to support mothers as caregivers in the home in a more gender-neutral language.
...could be the start of the end of the elite patronising us and telling us what to think. Another wasted €25 million of OUR money stuffed into RTE and the NGOs and all the Hard Left Woke Artists with too much time on their hands and not enough real problems.
Sorry for the rant!!! (Just excited about the government getting it in the solar plexus)
Ireland's Family Referendum is an Act of Constitutional Vandalism
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Thankfully, I am not a legal expert and so do not offer to provide a legal opinion. But, the old bog-warrior in me does love chewing over words and phrases. So, I will re-print one of the proposed amendments here to make an observation.
“The State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to Society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision.’
The above is a sentence devoid of any Irish spirit. Or any traces of spirit at all. Removing the words mother and woman takes a slash-hook to her links with mother nature and beyond that to the eternal. A string of text not pregnant with the possibilities of future Irish springs or any other seasons for that matter. A contrivance of words designed by the spiritually spastic for the roll-out of an Ireland gutted of its soul. In addition, far from the madding crowd and luxuriating in the heather of the unmaddening bog, I wonder aloud to myself if a paedophile ring might be considered a durable relationship.
Woohoo, what a win!!
...could be the start of the end of the elite patronising us and telling us what to think. Another wasted €25 million of OUR money stuffed into RTE and the NGOs and all the Hard Left Woke Artists with too much time on their hands and not enough real problems.
Sorry for the rant!!! (Just excited about the government getting it in the solar plexus)
Ireland's Family Referendum is an Act of Constitutional Vandalism
A quote for The West Awake shares your candor, as do i
Thankfully, I am not a legal expert and so do not offer to provide a legal opinion. But, the old bog-warrior in me does love chewing over words and phrases. So, I will re-print one of the proposed amendments here to make an observation.
“The State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to Society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision.’
The above is a sentence devoid of any Irish spirit. Or any traces of spirit at all. Removing the words mother and woman takes a slash-hook to her links with mother nature and beyond that to the eternal. A string of text not pregnant with the possibilities of future Irish springs or any other seasons for that matter. A contrivance of words designed by the spiritually spastic for the roll-out of an Ireland gutted of its soul. In addition, far from the madding crowd and luxuriating in the heather of the unmaddening bog, I wonder aloud to myself if a paedophile ring might be considered a durable relationship.