Irish Referendum To Remove Motherhood, Family From Constitution Fails
The far-left government of Ireland has failed in its efforts to pass a referendum on whether to change the country’s constitution to remove remarks about the inherent value of women, the importance of motherhood and the fact that traditional families are essential to society.
The radical left in Ireland have failed to remove these key provisions of the country’s constitution, losing by significant margins.
According to Reuters, “(the) proposal to expand the definition of family from a relationship founded on marriage to include other durable relationships was rejected by 67.7% to 32.3%.” The referendum to remove language about women’s role in the home failed by 73.9% to 26.1%.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar “admitted Irish voters had given his government ‘two wallops’ on Saturday, after a shock upset led to a resounding defeat of his double referendum on changing the constitution’s language on family issues,” according to The Telegraph.
“Clearly we got it wrong,” Varadkar admitted. “While the old adage is that success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, I think when you lose by this kind of margin, there are a lot of people who got this wrong and I am certainly one of them.”
One of the portions of Ireland’s constitution that the leftist leader wished to change states that “the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved,” and affirms that the “State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”
Essentially, the document stresses the importance of women who choose to stay at home to take care of their families and provides them protection from being forced into the workforce. While this is obviously a positive thing for the Irish people, radical leftists have once again tried to destroy motherhood and the traditional family by demanding this language be removed from the constitution.
The Irish government asked voters to remove the language entirely, with leftists arguing that it reinforces so-called “patriarchal” ideas about women’s place being “in the home.”
Meanwhile, defenders of the language argued that it simply recognizes how valuable stay-at-home mothers are to society and forces the government to ensure that the only mothers who enter the workforce are those who choose to do so. The language does not in any way denigrate women who choose to work and choose not to have children, but the left sees any mention of women’s traditional roles as an attack on feminism.
Another part of the constitution that was up for change in the referendum is an amendment that recognizes “the Family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.”
This amendment also requires the Irish government “to guard with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack.”
The government asked voters to change this language to instead state the extremely vague and bizarre notion that families are “founded on marriage or on other durable relationships.”
Ireland’s constitution was ratified in 1937, when the country’s society was still based on Catholic, socially conservative values. However, the document has seen many major changes over the years that have departed from those values, including enshrining progressivism when it comes to issues like abortion and gay marriage.
Senior Irish lawmakers were warning the people that these changes could have been used to justify increasing chain migration by strengthening the rights of immigrants, illegal or legal, to import their relatives through so-called “family reunification.”
