Iona, once again, doesn’t research its research.
When Pure in Heart visited schools with Sellotape in hand to teach abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education they made quite a stir. Mostly due to their usage of the Sellotape to slut-shame any...
View ArticleA Response to David Quinn and his Polygamy Red Herring
David Quinn has a blog post on the Iona Institute website where he employs the “if we allow same-sex marriage then why not polygamy” trope, citing an instance where three women claimed to be married to...
View ArticleA Response to Ben Conroy and Some Questions for the Iona Institute.
Ben Conroy has written two posts on polygamy and equal marriage on the Iona Institute website. One which explores the reasons given by me and Colette Browne on why polygamy should remain illegal. The...
View Article800 dead babies: if it could, the religious right would bury this story in...
A mass grave, reporting to contain 800 dead babies, has been located near Tuam, Co. Galway. The bodies were buried in a septic tank on the grounds of a “mother and baby home”, a Catholic institution...
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Refusal to print cartoons is to capitulate to violent extremism.
The idea of people being killed over the contents of a cartoon sounds like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. However, not only is it a reality, it’s not even the first time. January and...
View ArticleRegnerus rebooted. More flawed research from anti marriage equality lobby.
Another day, another religious conservative employing unethical research practices in order to attack marriage equality. In 2012 we had Mark Regnerus publish a study claiming that children raised by...
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Gay Pastor’s children rejected from school due to parents’“lifestyle”
Brian Copeland and Greg Bullard, a pastor, are a married couple with children. In anticipation of their son entering education they planned to visit a prospective school, Davidson Academy. However, the...
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Does the Iona Institute prioritise the best interest of children?
In its opposition to marriage equality and the Child and Family Relationship Bill the Iona Insititute claims to be doing so in the name of children’s rights. I decided to analyse the Iona Institute’s...
View ArticleIona Institute completes one of most useless surveys possible regarding child...
The Iona Institute commissioned a survey via Amarach Research regarding child adoption. Below is the question that was asked. When a child is available for adoption, who is it best to place the child...
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Irish government give a primary school to a racist, anti-science, occultist...
I wish I were being hyperbolic in my title but, unfortunately, it is entirely accurate. Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, issued a press release announcing new multi-denominational...
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