There is only ONE important issue this election

And it has nothing to do with € 145 billion (+/-), or job creation, or any of that other boring stuff.

Oh no.

Grafton street this morning:

In the midst of putting up the ‘Labortion’ posters, they seem to have remembered that there is indeed another important issue:

The ‘Labortion’ party wants marriage equality too!

That allowing gay people to marry is bad is seemingly self-explanatory, so they just slapped up a piece of an article.

Next week’s slogan: ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for Satan.’

Tagged: Abortion, Anti-choice, LGBT, Marriage equality, Politics, Pro-life

Anti-abortion extremist on trial in North Carolina, US

Anti-abortion campaigner Philip Benham, founder of the group Operation Save America, met in court yesterday charged with making and distributing ‘Wanted’ posters featuring personal details of doctors performing abortions in North Carolina, US.

Benham describes the posters as information tools and claims that he is exercising his right to freedom of speech. Others however, name these actions ‘calls for murders’, referring to the assassinations of four doctors following similar posters.

The most recent murder took place last year, when Dr. George Tiller, who survived an attempted murder in 1993, was killed while attending church. In 1993 and 1994, four doctors depicted on wanted posters were killed.

You can see a CBS news report about the wanted posters here.

Tagged: Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy

(Slightly Biased) Marriage Counselling on Offer

Photo by Feminist.ie

I must admit I find this quite funny…..My money is on ‘Stick it out’ as the most frequently given advice!

Sex, Sin and Society – Irish Times Poll Indicates a Liberal Ireland

The Irish Times have over the last three days published the findings from their poll ‘Sex, Sin and Society’. And the results are very interesting

A majority of the people surveyed disagreed with many of the common practices of the Catholic Church (such as not allowing women to be ordained to the priesthood).

The results also showed that for many issues politically perceived as too complex to deal with and too liberal to introduce to Ireland (such as allowing gay couples to adopt and the abortion debate) the majority of people have their minds made up, and many show very liberal attitudes.

As the findings are not available online (only in printed editions of the Irish Times) I have pasted a selection of the findings below:

LGBT Issues:

• Would you think less of a person if he/she revealed to you that he/she is gay or lesbian? NO: 91 %
• Do you think gay couples should be allowed to marry? YES: 67 %
• Do you think gay couples should be allowed to adopt children? YES: 46 %
• Do you believe the recently enacted civil partnership legislation undermines the institution of marriage? NO: 60 %
• Should people who have changed their gender be allowed to change their birth certificates to reflect their new sex? YES: 48 %

Religion:

• Do you believe that Catholic priests should be allowed to marry? YES: 87 %
• Do you believe that the Catholic Church should allow women to be ordained to the priesthood? YES: 78 %
• Do you believe that the Islamic face-covering veil, the burqa, should be banned in public places? YES: 49 %

Legislation:

If a friend came to you privately to ask you for your assistance in having an abortion, would you…

• Help her: 49 %
• Refuse to help and try to persuade her to have the baby: 26 %
• Take some other course of action: 24%
• Don’t Know: 1%

• Do you think the following law is unjust: Boys can be prosecuted for having sex with a girl under 17, even if consensually. Girls can not be prosecuted for having sex with underage boys. YES: 87 %

On the Constitution:

• Needs some amendment: 59 %
• Not fit for purpose and needs to be rewritten:19%
• Has stood the test of time well: 12%
• Don’t know: 10 %

Sex and the Sexualised Society:

• Do you regard sex outside marriage as immoral? NO: 79 %
• Much recent commentary claims that current fashions in clothes and media sexualise young girls at an early age. Do you agree? YES: 84 %

Many of these findings show that change is needed. It’s time to shake the sleeping dogs awake and get some heads out of the sand. And maybe these survey results can finally give the bishops (and their colleagues) the kick up the arse they need to start adapting to modern times.