Ireland has rejected leftist, anti-family proposals in a double referendum on amendments to the country’s Constitution.
Irish voters on Saturday overwhelmingly opposed two proposed constitutional amendments that would have legally redefined marriage and motherhood. Over 1.5 million voters on the Emerald Isle showed up at the polls.
The proposed Family Amendment would have changed the Irish Constitution’s definition of the family. Currently, the Irish Constitution “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,” and declares that the family “is founded” upon marriage.
The Family Amendment would have rewritten the Irish Constitution to explain that the family may be “founded on marriage or on…