Giving inalienable rights to gay husbands or wives is a step too far

The Referendum Commission’s booklet arrived yesterday. It is admirably clear.

Giving inalienable rights to gay husbands or wives is a step too far

It quotes three extracts from Article 41 that use the word family. The first is:

41.1.1: The State recognises the Family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.

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