Out of all of the anti Catholic political parties, it is a tossup between the Green Part and the Social Democrats for which one best embodies the aspiring middle class’s contempt for the faith of the people of this island for the past 1,500 years.
The Green Party are led by Protestant educated Roderic O’Gorman, who narrowly won the leadership contest from Protestant Pippa Hackett. Hackett lashed out at the church prior to her party’s historic defeat in the referendums on mothers and families in early 2024. In recent memory the party surrounded a church in Tralee in order to intimidate a Catholic priest who had spoke in a way not conducive with Green Party social policies, which tend to revolve more around bizarre sex regulations than recycling.
On the hand is the Social Democrats, who champion separation of Church and State.
Apart from when people pray and the state needs to call the police to tell them not to.
Or when they want to ban confession.
Or when. Well…
In an attention to garner publicity, presumably ahead of a General Election run, obscure local politician Padraig Rice has made a very public call for a separation of Church and State, the same call his party has been making with little interest from the public for almost a decade now.
Rice said that there should be no prayers before Council Meetings, saying that there is a ‘time and place for worship’.
He has been accused of hypocrisy however after images emerged of a leaflet that he shared while picketing Catholics, AT MASS.
Not only did Rice go to the place of worship for Catholics, but he targeted Cardinal Raymond Burke in doing so.
The feigned interest in pluralism is exactly why Rice should not be taken at face value, especially considering his party’s crass lowbrow anti Catholicism.
Picketing Catholic churches has become an all too common trend from Irish political parties as of late, with the Green Party, Sinn Fein and now the Social Democrats all guilty of a practise which was pioneered by paedophile Orange Order member Davy Tweet in Harryville in the 1990s.
