Ireland: All Religious Freedom gone - Homosexual must be employed in Faith Schools, charities and hospitals

Church Schools and Church hospitals, Charities, adoption agencies, Bible Colleges, church institutions, churches- will not be able to discriminate over sexuality, Minister says. A planned change to equality gay law will “raise the bar” so high that Church schools and Church hospitals will not be allowed to discriminate against staff or job applicants because they are homosexual, Minister of State for Equality Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has said.

The Government is working on an amendment to the Employment Equality Act, which allows religious-run schools and hospitals to discriminate in order to maintain their ethos. Homosexual groups say the law has an effect on homosexual and lesbian teachers, who feel their sexuality could hinder employment or promotion prospects.

Mr Ó Ríordáin said he believed an attempt to repeal section 37.1 of the Act, which gives religious-run workplaces an exemption to discrimination law if an individual undermines their ethos, could be unconstitutional.

Instead, the Government would amend the law so as to “raise the bar of the ‘undermining’ to be so high as to be irrelevant what somebody’s personal life would be”.

THIS IS WHERE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA VIOLATES CHRISTIAN FREEDOM

You have a situation where teachers in primary and secondary schools would have voted Yes [in the marriage referendum], would have gone out and celebrated over the weekend, possibly went back into their staff rooms on Monday morning and didn’t tell anybody what they were up to because they felt it would impact on their promotion prospects in the school,” Mr Ó Ríordáin said. 

He believed this was a workers’ rights issue that affected not only the LGBT community but people who were remarried or cohabiting with their partners.

In other words -a Christian Schools which teaches traditional marriage, that any sexual activity outside of traditional marriage - is now banned by Government because homosexuality overrules historical Christian faith.

Mr Ó Ríordáin was speaking on The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast, where he clashed with the chair of the Iona Institute’s board of directors, John Murray.

SOME SCHOOLS HAVE ALREADY COMPROMISED - AND VIOLATE CHURCH DOCTRINE - THEREFORE DISOBEDIENCE TO SCRIPTURE IS IRRELEVANT

Mr Murray said section 37 should not be changed, but if it was, new text should include a commitment to denominational education. He said schools had a “live and let live” attitude to diversity and respect for people’s private lives. In other words they ignore the moral lives of teachers?

“There are hundreds of teachers around Ireland who are divorced or remarried. There are many teachers who are living together with somebody, who aren’t married at all. That happens in loads and loads of cases. I’m involved in education for the last 30 years and I’m not aware that there’s a major problem about this, in terms of people being sacked or people losing their jobs or people not being able to do their jobs. It simply isn’t true.”

Under current law, educational or medical institutions controlled by religious orders which promote religious values are not considered to be discriminating if they favour an employee or prospective employee “in order to maintain the religious ethos”.

Repeal or amendment of section 37.1 has been discussed since the early 2000s, when the Equality Authority said it should be reviewed. Any amendment must strike a balance between the right to equality and the right to earn a livelihood, on one hand, and the right to the profession and practice of religion.

Mr Ó Ríordáin hopes the law will be amended by the new school year. The sin of homosexuality appears to want to destroy only one group in society - the church. Why? Why only the church? Why is it worldwide? Demonic?