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Thu 03 Mar 2010Bishops weigh up action on Civil Partnership Bill
IRELAND’S CATHOLIC bishops are “very concerned” about the Civil Partnership Bill and have discussed whether to take a Constitutional action should it become law, the Bishop of Elphin, Christopher Jones, told a press conference in Maynooth yesterday.
And in a statement, Why Marriage Matters, released by the bishops yesterday, they describe provisions in the Civil Partnership Bill as “an extraordinary and far-reaching attack on freedom of conscience and the free practices of religion – which are guaranteed to every citizen under the Constitution”.
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