Throwing away tradition

Dear Editor, When the Government says this referendum is about civil marriage and has nothing to do with religious marriage, what is really being said is: We don’t care about centuries of tradition or philosophical or theological wisdom, and we don’t care about what God has to say about human affairs, as made known through his Church.

We have gay and lesbian members in our family and no one passes any remarks about them being together, but they have never demanded the institution of marriage for themselves.

We ourselves married late in life and would have liked a big family, but this was not granted to us.

We could have gone down the road of adoption, but when we considered the age gap, common sense told us that this was not a suitable environment in which to bring up children and that we would make our contribution to society in some other way.

Yours etc.,

Judith Leonard,

Raheny, 

Dublin 5.