Dear Editor, I find it very difficult to understand how Cathal O’Sullivan (Letters IC 30/04/2015) believes the complementarity argument is overstated. Gender quotas in almost every walk of life – politics, business, State boards – are universally now regarded as a laudable good. Is parenting the only area where the role of a man and a…

Dear Editor, I cannot find anything in the Bible in its statements on marriage which would support or give religious freedom to vote for same-sex marriage. Right through it all, it is taken for granted or as evident that marriage is between a man and a woman. In the light of this, it will surprise…

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…

Dear Editor, It was heartening to learn of the intervention of Archbishop Eamon Martin, as well as Bishop Philip Boyce, Bishop Michael Smith, Bishop Denis Nulty and Bishop John Buckley, in the debate on the forthcoming referendum (IC 07/05/2015). Dare we hope that at this the eleventh hour many other bishops, as well as priests,…

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…