Church urged to ban magazine over ‘anti-Lisbon’ ad

POLITICIANS have demanded the Catholic Church remove a magazine from churches that carries an advertisement claiming the Lisbon Treaty will automatically allow special needs children and ill people to be locked up.

The advertisement appears in this month’s edition of Alive! and claims to quote an Article from the Lisbon Treaty to substantiate its claims.

The Cork-based body styling itself “Éire go Brách” says the treaty will “allow the detention of persons for the prevention of spreading infectious diseases, of persons of unsound mind – mental illness, depression, Alzheimer’s, autism, special needs, alcoholics, drug addicts or homeless”.