Iona Institute targets straight couples in latest salvo
Tags: Conservatism, equality, Homophobia, Inequality, Inolerance, Ireland, Personal freedom, Privacy 
Hot on the heels of his friend Ronan‘s Irish Daily Mail opinion piece damning couples living in sin, David Quinn of the Iona Institute has spoken out against Ireland’s Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, whose most recent report noted that “tax and social welfare laws were unfairly discriminating against tens of thousands of cohabiting couples in Ireland”. Quinn is also shrilling along the lines of “won’t somebody think of the children?!”
I don’t suppose the Iona Institute will be satisfied until Ireland has reverted to the days of 1950s Ireland, when we were dictated to by the Catholic hierarchy, personified by John Charles McQuaid. Anyone who is unfamiliar, should read (for example) the literature of Edna O’Brien.
Shall we re-introduce book banning? And churching? And prohibition of contraception? Why not also re-introduce the ban on married women working in the civil service? And “conjugal rights” (a hideous concept, which was only outlawed in the past few years in this country)?
While the likes of Quinn might have the practiced hand of the Roman Catholic church’s “communications” and PR machine to gloss their aims, by the Iona Institute’s logic, it’s a short leap to the evangelical end-of-days Christian extremism and absolute intolerance of dissent.
Why not simply surrender our democratic and civic duties and freedoms to living in a dangerous, deluded theocracy, where a Catholic version of Shariah law reigns supreme?
We have been warned..
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I had to google the Iona Institute and thier home page has the line “the phenomenon of same-sex parenting” and goes on to say “making it more difficult for society to assert that children have a right to a mother and father”. for the love of God – these people really get on my last nerve
You’re so right, the last thing we need is to live in a state where a religion (any religion) has the ear of the government. Let’s leave that in the past – where it belongs!
Churching!! what fun that was for women.
Or what about staying at home until you had your child so you would not affront their Catholic “sensibilities”
I might add that conjugal rights could be demanded by husbands only, before or after Churching they dont
say.
Oh Yes it was fun back then ! and these fundamentalists would send us back there if they could.
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