This is a contentious issue, as you might expect and I think things are going to really heat up as the referendum draws nearer. It's no secret that Ireland was a staunchly catholic nation until only very recently. The fall of the Church and the worship of money and material really took hold during the "Celtic Tiger" years of the economic boom in Ireland.
""Celtic Tiger" (Irish: An TÃogar Ceilteach) is a term referring to the economy of the Republic of Ireland from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, a period of rapid real economic growth fueled by foreign direct investment." The definition claims 'real' economic growth, but really, it was a bubble. Kept aloft by the builders and developments. All of it, came crashing down in '08, as I'm sure you're aware. It wasn't a phenomenon restricted to Ireland, but I digress.
The point is that it brought with it this cosmopolitan attitude, akin to the liberal world view of American liberals as well as those of the UK. Stuck in a no mans land culturally speaking, Ireland seems to be trying it's best to keep in line with the liberal nation wrecking agenda that is incessant in the US and UK and the rest of Europe, for the most part. Not taking a single minute to pause, and ask questions of the validity or the value of such views for the Irish people. Of course, it's another topic altogether whether this is natural evolution of a people between two powerhouses struggling to find an identity relevant and not too offending for the twenty first century, or foreign direct manipulation. My position of course is that it's foreign meddling as well as quislings within our own ethnic group.
This is another one of those poignant turning points for Ireland. A tipping point in which the Irish decide what they want Ireland to be. It feels like a loss of innocence, though it could be argued Ireland lost that generations ago. If it ever truly had it. Ireland pre-Viking invasion and even after was given to incessant warfare and feuding between clans. Our worst enemies are each other.
I can be a melancholic man. It's in my nature. Maybe it's the nature of the Irish people. It seems to be anyway, given most of the poetry and stories that have arisen from this island.
If this vote goes the way the progressives and globalist types want, something will have been lost from Ireland. It may be something I can't even quantify or put into words, but a part of Ireland's soul will have been sold and sacrificed on the altar of progress and 'integration'. Maybe I'm over-reacting. Maybe I'm not. Maybe our ancestors saw nothing wrong with abortion if it was to save the mother or spare the child a life living with disability or some other disadvantage. With people like this though, it's extremely hard to take the side of 'choice'. What would the unborn baby chose? What would you chose?
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