Constitution referendem for Blasphemy gonna happen?

Bottle_of_Smoke · 24-01-2011 9:57am #1

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned. When enacting the Blasphemy law Ahern said the constitution needed to be changed.

Now that there's an election it might as well be held on the same day.

Recently the pope condemned Blasphemy laws so I doubt there will be any opposition to removing it from the constitution.

The law was so embarrassing, hopefully it can now be changed

wonderfulname · 24-01-2011 10:49am

The only thing I can think of is Labours constitutional reform idea, I'd imagine under that it would be scrapped.

The Volt · 24-01-2011 11:03am

Labour promised something like a referendum on a newly drafted constitution within a year of election. This would also facilitate age old lines in it such as the one that states that a woman's rightful place is in the home.

seamus · 24-01-2011 12:17pm

No way there'll be anything except the dail vote on GE day. There's not enough time to properly draft and review any amendments between now and then.

A new constitution will be a tough one to sell. There's always so much debate over individual amendments.

I imagine it'll contain simple reform/rewording of the current constitution to make some things less ambiguous and remove archaic/sexist/religious wording such as Voltwad points out above, but it'll leave things the way they are in relation to big-ticket items like divorce and abortion.

wonderfulname · 24-01-2011 12:25pm

seamus wrote: »

...but it'll leave things the way they are in relation to big-ticket items like divorce and abortion.

Abortion is the big one that needs to be changed, it would be kept in the same area of course but its the most horrific aspect of the constitution by far, it needs clarifying and tiding, and in doing that decisions as to what the hell our constitutional stance is would have to be made.

Constitution referendem for Blasphemy gonna happen?

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