Another day, another bunch of crazies band together to spread their religious bile.This new group, called RENEW, describe their mission statement as:
The mission of RENEW is to defend the dignity of the human person and the institution of marriage. We work to protect the dignity of the human person and seek to change attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that allow for the total disregard of moral values.
We believe that the continuing commericalisation of human sexuality, the objectification of women and the lack of moral values is immensely damaging to society, therefore we aim to influence, educate and lobby the industries responsible and the government so as to counteract this.
However, their main aim seems to be to petition against the Civil Partnership Bill. WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! They couldn’t possibly allow gays to have a handful of the rights that they have. Sean Brady must be delighted!
Their site lists their campaign issues as:
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- The promotion and protection of marriage and family life
- To influence government legislation which protects and supports family life
- The teaching of sex education is primarily the role of the parent and must be taught in accordance with Catholic principles which always respects the child’s natural modesty
- The protection of children against sexualisation by the media and the entertainment and commercial industries.
- To end the commercialization of human sexuality and the objectification of women through the media, sex industries and on the internet
- To lobby the government to strengthen the obscenity laws and to impose heavy sanctions for the breaking of those laws
- The regulation of the media and advertising industry by an impartial body, independent of the industries concerned
Ah, ye olde “protection of marriage and family life” argument. Please people, some originality. It’s getting boring. Seriously. Come up with a new argument. Or maybe even some backing evidence for this bullshit. How does two men or two women getting married in anyway impinge on your monotonous lives which lack so much that you must spend them peddling hatred and promoting discrimination? Like how sad do you have to be?!
In their events section, they applaude their own launch with the following article:
RENEW, a new national advocacy and lobby group, launched in Buncrana last week has been hailed a “vision for modern Ireland.” The organisation has been founded by Mary Doherty from Buncrana.
RENEW seeks to influence and renew modern day thinking in regard to human behaviour and to position itself as an authoritative voice on Christian moral values.
Guest speaker, the most Reverand Bishop of Derry Seamus Hegarty, said he “saluted Mary Doherty in bringing her vision to this stage. I’m here because I am in agreement with a lot of her aspirations. I acknowledge Mary’s vision which she has been articulating for a very long time and doing so very convincingly. RENEW has produced a valuable piece of work for people who care about the future of young people.”RENEW has made a series of recommendations that it would like to see pursued by Government to protect children and families against the commercialisation of human sexuality in modern day Ireland. They include:
- The greater encouragement of marriage by the Government by offering affordable homes, incentivised tax laws and affordable childcare;
- A stated policy position on the promotion of marriage and the family unit;
- A Government information campaign against the commercialization of human sexuality and the objectification of women and the sexualisation of children by the media and entertainment and commercial industries;
We are supporting Media Watch UK in pressing for a European agreement on programme standards in the area of multi-media broadcasting.
Speaking at the launch Mary Doherty said her vision for change will continue around the country with a county-by-county publicity and media campaign. “I was delighted with the turnout at our launch and the reaction from the public since it.”
Here are the lovely people behind this:
Perhaps most worringly of all is the letter that they are sending to TD’s. The only place I could find this letter was on the blog of Maman Poulet, so she did the work on this one. The text of the letter is as follows:
Dear Deputy,
RENEW is calling for the scrapping of the Civil Partnership Bill for the following reasons:-
It’s unconstitutional because it’s against Article 41 of the Irish Constitution. Article 41 states that ” The State recognises the family as the natural, primary and fundamental unit of society, and a moral institution. The State guarantees to protect the family because it is the necessary basis of social order and indispensable to the welfare of the nation and the State.
Making laws that recognise same-sex unions is legislating for immoral, perverse and deviant behaviour.
This Bill contradicts right reason because it is not in accordance with the natural moral law.
Therefore this Bill is not legitimate since it fails to recognise the inalienable and imprescriptible right of every human being.
It is grossly unjust and immoral because it is so harmful to the common good.
It is a blatant attack on Marriage and Family Life.
The government and the opposition parties assured the people that the “guarantees” secured by the government ensured that there could be no undermining of the Constitutional protections for the family and human life.
We call on you as our public representative to see that this Bill is scrapped and show the people that they were right to trust the government to protect the family founded on Marriage since this was one of the issues many people voted NO too in Lisbon 1, then voted YES in Lisbon 2 because of the guarantees.
We are asking you to respond to us via email at info@renewcampaign.com and outline your position on the Civil Partnership Bill.
Yours Sincerely,
Mary Doherty
What the FUCK like?! My only hope is that the TD’s recognise this as being one of the crazy letters and puts it to one side. However, the worrying this is that if they get enough of these letters, that they may sit up and take some notice… There are some TD’s that are getting a letter/visit a day in opposition to the Bill.
Therefore, the LGBTQ community need to get up off their asses and go visit their TD’s and outline their concerns. MaarriagEquality are running a campaign on this. To learn more, go to www.marriagequality.ie and get involved. We can wait around on this one, as the Bill will be discussed on the 3rd of December if my sources are correct….
Don’t wait around on this. The crazies are rallying the troops. We should be too.

