You cannot redefine marriage; it is between a man and a woman

It is dishonest to present the forthcoming referendum as one of equality for same-sex couples. 

Marriage is the conjugal union of a man and a woman — everything else is something else.

The campaign to redefine marriage is not about extending marriage to couples of the same sex, but about changing it to something it is not and cannot become.

If we vote that “marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex”, then we are erasing the difference between man and woman, which is essential to our understanding of who we are as humans.

This would have implications for a society that holds marriage to be between a man and woman because only a man and woman can create a child.

Mimi Cashman

Suncourt Estate,

Midleton, Co. Cork