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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, March 12, 2024
What happened in Ireland last week? The government strongly supported a pair of proposed constitutional amendments. The major political parties supported them. The media, the corporate elite, the liberal intelligentsia all supported them. But the people of Ireland, God bless them, sent both amendments down to decisive defeats in a national referendum.
The result is doubly surprising and encouraging because nine years ago, when a similar coalition of cultural elites backed the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, the Irish voters meekly agreed. Somehow the political tide shifted in the intervening years, and the people are no longer taking instructions. …
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Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.