Referendum denies me right to practice my faith

I remember David Norris once lamenting on radio that the gardaí had discretion to break down his bedroom door, and that he potentially faced a court appearance and perhaps imprisonment due to his homosexual lifestyle.

The law allowed for it. Now in a strange reversal of fortune, it is perhaps the printer, baker or candlestick-maker who refuses, for personal or faith-based reasons, to actively facilitate aspects of that lifestyle who may have to face court.

In effect it is a denial of the right to practice one’s chosen faith, even within this wonderful post-colonial, post-catholic pluralistic utopia.