Seanad debates
Thursday, 24 October 2002
Order of Business.
I wish to put a point on the record in order to advance the case. I am a Member of this House, in good standing. Certain schools in this country are paid for by taxpayers' money. Although I am a person of good character, I could be fired legally because I advocated homosexual law reform and because I acknowledged publicly that this is my sexual orientation. According to the laws of the land, the church authorities could fire me from a job paid for by taxpayers' money, while simultaneously protecting people who abused hundreds of children. I am in favour of discrimination on the basis of behaviour so that children can be protected, but I am not in favour of discriminatory attitudes which harm people of otherwise good character. As legislators we now have an opportunity to address this issue again.
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