Posted on 11/03/2015 7:02:14 PM PST by marshmallow
The fact that more than sixty percent of the Irish electorate supported an amendment to the nation's constitution recognizing same-sex "marriage" caught many people by surprise last spring. They may have been clinging to an outdated image of Ireland as a bastion of devout Catholicism.
Unfortunately there are further disturbing changes that are being advanced.
One is more symbolic. Many, including a former news director of the national radio and television station, are asking that the broadcasting of the Angelus be dropped. It is viewed as an anachronism in an Ireland that has "an increasingly multi-ethnic, multi-faith population," and is "a secular state."
Originally the television imagery accompanying the sounding of the Angelus bells had a religious or devotional character, such as of Mary and the Christ Child. In more recent times it was gradually changed to a semi-religious flavor: a young child with a senior citizen feeding ducks, a street artist chalking a religious picture on the pavement, or a memorial in a rural town.
Now the spots will be decidedly secular and will be called a time for reflection, rather than prayer and reflection.
More disturbing than the dilution of the broadcasting of the Angelus is the prospective repeal of the eighth amendment to the Irish Constitution, that is the prohibition of abortion. Approved by two-thirds of the Irish electorate in 1983, it had been prompted by fears that the judiciary, which, like ours, has the power of judicial review, might overturn existing legal prohibitions.
Public mood began to soften in 1992.
The Supreme Court had overturned an injunction issued by the Irish Attorney General to prevent a pregnant 14 year old who threatened suicide from travelling to England for an abortion. Subsequently three amendments were put to the electorate. Two were approved allowing public availability of information.........
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“...will be called a time for reflection, rather than prayer and reflection”
If you’re going to be secular then why even bother with “reflection”? It is pointless. Typical atheist. They don’t believe in God but instead believe in everything else.
I hope the Ancient Order of Hibernians is happy with their buddies Sinn Fein now.
If you think their years of Christian majority weren’t much, much better than their pagan days of human sacrifice and of homosexual orgies/pederasty-then you are deluded and must love the irrational Ancient pagan cultures of constant warfare. Christianity was a civilizing force which ended the idea that child/human sacrifice was a “good” along with pederasty and child sex slaves and slavery.
That their culture was particularly vile when St. Patrick was enslaved as a boy is documented. Ireland was lucky to have St. Patrick return to educate their children out of barbarity and human sacrifice and pederasty/homosexuality.
Now, again, their children are brainwashed in their “schools” to throw off the shackles of Christian Ethics-—back to paganism where sodomizing others and killing/sacrificing babies is a “Good” again.
Age of Reason is obliterated-—and they are reducing their children to godless animals, again-—irrational and base urges rule Reason.
The Political Tour of Belfast includes a cab drive past the colorful walls on Falls Road with artwork supporting the Palestinian Cause. The Republican Irish are down with the moslems. Its a new world order thing. That’s all.
Expect another famine.
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Age of Reason is obliterated—and they are reducing their children to godless animals, again—irrational and base urges rule Reason.
They don’t want to be pagans - they want to be “Americans”.
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