Seanad debates

Thursday, 24 October 2002

I, as a reasonably upstanding member of society and Member of the Oireachtas who was elected by the people to this Chamber and who does not have any criminal convictions, was a teacher. Had I been a teacher in a national school paid for by taxpayers' money but under the control of a clerical managerial system, I could have been thrown out for advocating homosexual law reform. That would have been legal, while at the same time these people were concealing and moving around people who were molesting children by the tens, if not the hundreds. That is an intolerable situation. We fought this issue with the former Minister, Mervyn Taylor, a member of the Labour Party, and with other people. Now is the moment that this issue of gross injustice and unjustifiable discrimination should be addressed. I appeal to the Minister to do that. He will find the churches very reluctant to resort to the kind of stiff lobbying they used before. This is a very important point.

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