Blasphemy Law assault on progressives

national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Friday May 08, 2009 16:28 by Socialism or Barbarism!

Review of blasphemy law's implications

New blasphemy law must be opposed

It is shameful that so many nationalist radicals affect a concern for the de Valera constitution of 1937 simply because of the presence of articles 2 and 3 which reiterated that Ireland's territorial integrity extended to all thirty-two counties. Now that's gone, there's even less reason to profess allegiance to the constitution.

The 1937 Constitution represented a perversion of the hopes of the revolutionary hopes of those who followed Connolly and who stood up for Irish freedom and socialism. Indeed, the verbalised territorial claim belied the fact that the publication of the constitution effectively admitted defeat to the partitionist agenda and concretised the southern reactionary state born of partition.

The constitution also ensconced the dominant role and authority of the Catholic church in Irish society, it reinforced the domination of women, made abortion illegal, forbid divorce, set out a preference for the 'traditional' family and legalised discrimination, and even worse criminalisation, of gays and lesbians.

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