Priests everywhere
Glinner has helpful background on Amnesty Ireland and its move to shun Irish women who don’t obey the Gender Priests.
A few years ago, my wife and I did our bit in trying to repeal the eighth amendment in Ireland. The Eight Amendment was a hangover from Ireland’s priest-ridden past which prevented women from receiving an abortion, even in cases such as ours where the child had no chance of surviving. We worked with Amnesty International, who shot a moving and powerful video that I like to think had some influence on the final result of the referendum, which was a resounding success for Irish women.
As soon as the result came in, Colm O’Gorman, who had accompanied us while we travelled Ireland doing interviews and forums, stabbed those same women in the back.
O’Gorman is the Executive Director of Amnesty Ireland.
Without pausing for breath, Amnesty Ireland robbed Irish women of their greatest victory over the religious ideologues who had controlled their lives for decades. ‘Pregnant people’ was an early sign that the organisation had committed to the erasure of women’s reality because of the demands of trans rights activists.
On the one hand we’re “wine moms” and on the other hand we’re “pregnant people” – we get it from all sides.
If I had known then what I know now about that organisation, we might have shopped around a bit before we settled on working with them. I didn’t realise that Amnesty had been ideologically captured by fashionable misogyny. I didn’t realise that they had a policy of placing dangerous males with vulnerable women. I didn’t realise they supported the destruction of women’s sports, the removal of their safe spaces, and of their right to equal representation in political life.
And now they’re issuing open letters calling for the shunning of feminist women.
Meet the New Patriarchy, same as the Old Patriarchy.
Women must still defer to men in frocks.