On Wednesday 29 January, the Finance Committee of Ireland decided to vote against commissioning a research paper on the civil, human and employment rights of registrars who cannot perform same-sex marriages in good conscience. The research was proposed by Jim Allister, who is shocked by the lack of interest in the matter of freedom of conscience for Christians, which is a human right.
"Here we have a party which portrays itself as the party of civil rights voting against even considering the issue of freedom of conscience for Christians. Worse than that. Voting to express disinterest in people’s human, civil and employment rights." - Jim Allister (Newsletter)
“We have a situation where people have taken up the position of registrars under one set of conditions and now those conditions have been radically changed,” “If, as is often claimed, same-sex marriage was really about rights then this issue would have been addressed.” - Jim Allister (GCN)