Breda O’Brien was interviewed by Marian Finucane on her programme last Saturday about same-sex marriage and the ‘homophobia’/RTE apology controversy. Breda discusses the implications of same-sex marriage for children’s rights, and the personal impact of some of the hate mail she has received for her stance on the issue. The interview also discusses the work...
A new RTE/Sunday Business Post poll confirms the finding of an Irish Times opinion poll on same-sex marriage from a few months back, namely that support for the proposition stands in or around 75 percent. That’s a very big lead. However, this latest poll confirms what some commentators have suspected all along, namely that much...
The debate about homophobia and same-sex marriage was the subject of an item on BBC World’s Have Your Say programme, available here. Rory O’Neill took part in a discussion with Caroline Farrow of Catholic Voices and Brandon Ambrosino, a gay writer who supports gay marriage but, in his own words, wants to “open up the...
In his latest opinion piece in The Irish Times, Fintan O’Toole takes issue with The Iona Institute’s thesis that marriage in Ireland is in decline. On the contrary, says O’Toole, marriage “has proven to be far more robust than either conservatives or radicals ever imagined.” Unfortunately, Fintan can only make such a broad claim by ignoring...
Breda O’Brien was interviewed by Hugh Linehan today for the Irish Times’ ‘Inside Politics’ podcast. She speaks in a very heartfelt way about the impact the vilification she has been subjected to by some people for disagreeing with same-sex marriage has had on her, as well as giving her thoughts on the whole controversy surrounding...
The Dominican Timothy Radcliffe would be no-one’s idea of a ‘conservative’ in theological terms or any other terms for that matter. In a very interesting blog on the issue of same-sex marriage that he wrote for the Guardian newspaper he welcomed “the wave of support for same-sex marriage”, but at the same time reaffirms marriage...
A few interesting developments in the ongoing debate about the uses and misuses of the word ‘homophobia’: First, Paddy Manning and our director David Quinn were on Prime Time opposite Senator Ivana Bacik and Brian Finnegan. Link here. For what it’s worth, both Bacik and Finnegan agreed that opposition to gay marriage was not automatically...
Tuesday night’s episode of Tonight with Vincent Browne featured Kevin Brophy, the solicitor who represented The Iona Institute in our dispute with RTE, and Paddy Manning, a gay man who opposes gay marriage, discussing the use of the word ‘homophobia’ Paul Murphy MEP and Noeline Blackwell of the Free Legal Advice Centre were also on...
On yesterday’s edition of Newstalk’s The Right Hook programme, George Hook won a victory for common sense, and for the real meaning of free speech. Hook was speaking to Senator Ivana Bacik about the protest organised by LGBT Noise objecting to RTE’s apology and financial settlement with a number of people, including representatives of the...
In his column in The Irish Independent, David Quinn details some of the abusive and threatening emails received in the past fortnight by The Iona Institute and calls for a civil debate on same-sex marriage. Click here to read his column.
