In this article, perhaps everything you wanted to know about
the social drama of Ireland.
What can we learn from this?
It is certainly a complex question but I'm thinking that when the Catholic Church was at its weakest, secularization made a rapid advance.
When church attendance collapsed, and with it much of the moral
underpinning of the state and the culture, lots of people just said: Good
riddance. In certain sexual ways, Dublin today is racier than New York. Look at
the “Life” section of the Irish Times. It writes up gay dating websites and
tells readers where to find a geo-location app that can be used for gay
hookups. The headlines in the Irish Independent are similar: “Meet the sex guru
who says no to marriage,” for instance. Or “Childless & happy? You better
believe it.” Amid the church scandals, Ireland rewrote its legal and its
informal rules on sex from scratch.
But abortion has been different.
h/t em
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