Govt out to stop challenge

Dear Editor, I am declining the invitation of both Cathal O’Sullivan and Richard Deane (Letters IC 30/04/2015) to vote ‘yes’. Neither presents a valid argument either in terms of social justice or Catholicism.

The recent enactment of the Children and Family Relationships Bill ensures that some children will be produced with the explicit purpose of being deprived of either a father or a mother. No matter how good a man is at changing nappies, pushing prams and spending long hours nurturing, no man can ever be a mother.

This appalling inequality would naturally give rise to a constitutional challenge to the Children and Family Relationships legislation.

The Government deliberately timed the referendum to follow so quickly on the Children and Family Relationships Bill to prevent any constitutional challenge. The quick ‘yes’ vote would not only quash any such challenge but prevent one from being launched in the future. In effect, a ‘yes’ vote means that in future some children are prohibited from having a father or mother by the Constitution.

Yours etc.,

Con Devree,

Cappamore, Co. Limerick.