Here's What the Catholic Church Put into the Irish Constitution


What do you get when you have a Catholic Bishop write the Constitution for a country? You get the same sexist ideas held by the Catholic Church. The proper place for women is in the home.

Voters in Ireland are step by step taking their country out from under its Catholic male domination and bringing it into modern times. They are taking out of the Irish constitution references of women being in the home raising children.

A vote coming up shortly is to give women equal status in the workplace, Also, it will give unmarried couples the same status and married and drop the inferior status of children born to unmarried couples. This follows the 1973 removal of the "special status" of the Catholic Church. In 2015 the country legalized divorce and 20 years later legalized marriage between gays. 

As I understand it, the Ireland's Constitution was written in 1937 with much input from Catholic Clergy. In a St. Patrick's Day speech of that year, political leader Michael Cassidy bragged the document insured "the life that God desired men to live." There were references to happy women in their secondary status. 

In recent decades Ireland has experienced many scandals within the Catholic Church. All the while, Bishops talked up the holiness of the church and it clergy. A favorite past time in the country became scoffing at the Church.

The stubborn clergy in Ireland and its decline in status and influence seems to be mirrored in today's U.S. While the power of the Catholic Church has not been what it was in Ireland, the U.S. Conference of Bishops sounds identical to what Bishops in Ireland have and are saying. There is no concern for the public and laity, especially women. Neither in Ireland nor in the U.S. can Bishops see the forest for the trees. They are so absorbed with their internal rules and self importance they cannot see they are in decline with do bottom in sight.

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