Saturday's 'Irish Times' Weekend Supplement carried a feature on gay marriage. The page-long feature was titled 'How gay marriage went mainstream'.
The article was written by Kathy Sheridan.
There was nothing nasty or sneering about the piece. It told the story of what has happened in Ireland over the last few years and how people now accept the phenomenon of civil partnerships, whether a couple is tying the knot in Longford or Enniscorthy.
In the current issue of 'Alive' there is an editorial on the same topic. The anger and nastiness in the piece screams out at the reader.
What does that mean? Is it saying something?
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Alive. Hmmm. It is effectively a Dominican publication, sadly. If this were a newspaper promoting 'dissent' like the Pfarrer Initiative or ACP or suchlike, I have little doubt it would have been supressed long ago. Is there any possibility that the new Provincial might have the moral courage to act. The tone and tenor of ths right wing rag is scurrilous, partisan, theologically ill-informed, histrionic, and suffering from a siege mentality. It is a disgrace to the Sons and Daughters of Dominic.
Alive is a scurillous religious red top. The Dominicans don't seem to have any control over it. They should do something about it because it is dragging the reputation of the Order through the mud.
It is operating out of the Priory in Tallaght. If this continues the Order will have no defence.
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