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Both sides in Ireland's same-sex marriage debate have acknowledged that the "yes" vote has succeeded. NPR's Ari Shapiro, speaking with Weekend Edition Saturday host Scott Simon, says that although Ireland is a predominately Catholic country and many clergy urged a no vote, "the Church has had a lot of scandals" in recent years. Without a doubt, he says, the Church is "one of the losers in this vote."The head of the Iona Institute, which ran the No campaign in Ireland's vote to legalize same-sex marriage, has tweeted his congratulations to the yes campaign ...... It used to be that Irishness was defined by affection for the Catholic Church and resistance to European liberal trends. So stubborn was this identity that the country took longer than the rest of Western Europe to embrace secularism. But the paedophile revelations of the 1990s rightly rocked faith in the Church as an institution, while a series of recent scandals shook faith in its actual theology. The latter set of outrages were, frankly, distortions of the facts. It was wrongly claimed that a woman had been allowed to die because Catholic doctors would not give her a life saving abortion (no such thing even exists). It was falsely charged that a Catholic children's home had dumped the bodies of hundreds of unwanted babies into a septic tank. Never mind that both stories crumbled under scrutiny – the popularity of them spoke to a growing sense that everything wrong with Ireland was due to the imported tyranny of Catholicism. Shake off the last remnants of traditional religious authority, it was reasoned, and Ireland could finally join the 21st century. Au revoir, Father Ted.To emphasise, the Yes vote was undoubtedly a reflection of growing tolerance towards gαys and lesbians. But it was also a politically trendy, media backed, well financed howl of rage against Catholicism. How the Church survives this turn, is not clear. It'll require a lot of hard work and prayers.
Folks, this is a sad day. In spite of the best efforts and prayers of many Catholics, Ireland, up until relatively recently a bulwark of the Catholic Faith, appears to be the latest victim of the Sodomite lobby.
Quote from: NishantFolks, this is a sad day. In spite of the best efforts and prayers of many Catholics, Ireland, up until relatively recently a bulwark of the Catholic Faith, appears to be the latest victim of the Sodomite lobby. They are the "victim" of absolutely nothing; they deliberately rejected God and the Catholic Faith.
According to what I've read so far, it's Dublin that carried it. The cities are where the highest evil is. Banks, Corporations, and Politicians all for HOMO "sex".