Article 13: The Family
The Act should recognise that the family is the
basic brick of society and that a stable family
life leads to a stable society. The Act should State
that it upholds traditional Irish Christian family
values.
The Act should expect that an Irish family home
will be clean, well kept, comfortable to live in,
well managed, disciplined, sober and will have a
Spiritual and Moral dimension.
The Act should expect that an Irish family home
will have a way of life and standard of living of
a high order. The realisation of this expectation
depends upon the nature and performance of the Irish
economy.
The Act expects that Irish youth will be well behaved,
well spoken, be of good education, be either at
school, university or in gainful employment, be
sober and drug free and live within the Law and
have a spiritual and moral dimension to their lives.
The Act should recognise that in intelligence, in
intellect, in talent, in imagination, in creativity,
in skill, women are psychologically spiritually
and morally the equal of men.
The Act should state that where a woman chooses
to remain within the home and aspires to the vocation
of housewife, such a woman is equal in Status to
a woman who aspires to a career outside the home
in either the public or private sector.
The individual freedoms of freedom from, freedom
to become, and freedom to be, enshrined in the Act
are particularly apt for women.
Under freedom from, a woman must be free from abuse,
either physical or sexual, from harassment, violence,
fear and discrimination.
Under freedom to become, a woman is free to become
that which the woman aspires to become according
to age ability and aptitude
Under freedom to be, a woman is free to be that
which she has aspired to be Lawfully.
Recognising that contraception is an established
practise in all Democracies under freedom of mind,
behaviour choice and conscience, the Act should
permit the purchase and sale of contraceptives and
the practise of contraceptive techniques.
When a couple cannot raise a family by natural means
the Act permits the use of in vitro fertilisation
(IVF).
The Act should forbid pornography, blasphemy and
obscenity on Irish territory. The Act however should
leave these undefined. Where a performance, theatrical
production, book, or image, film, television program,
downloading from a computer causes widespread disapproval
among the population in the press, media or in the
Churches, the Supreme Council of Irish jurists should
inspect the material and give judgement on the nature
of the material, doing so in a liberal frame of
mind. According to the judgement of the Jurists,
the Taoiseach is empowered in the Act to ban the
offending material
Article
14: Culture
Under freedom to enter Irish territory on lawful
business and in lawful manner unhindered, all cultures
are free to enter Irish territory. Under freedom
of mind, behaviour and expression, all cultures
are free to express their cultures in performance,
entertainment, book or magazine, film, television
programme, in song, in dance, in dress, in display,
in customs, in ritual, in religious practise and
in speech
The Act should recognise that Irish culture holds
a special position in Ireland and should state that
Irish culture consists of the Irish and English
languages, literature in Irish and English, ballads
and song in Irish and English, Irish dance, Irish
music Irish mythology, legend, story telling and
folklore.
The Act should state that in Ireland the Irish and
English language are of equal status.
The Act should recommend the setting up of the Royal
Society for the Promotion of Irish culture. The
level of funding of the Royal Society being sufficient
to meet the aims of the Royal Society and should
be set at a sufficient level by the Supreme Council
of Irish Jurists
The Act should confer upon the Royal Society, the
Crown Irish special right of access to Irish territory
in all its aspects to every nook and cranny of the
environment and to all buildings on Irish territory.
The Act should State that it is the aim of the Royal
Society to promote Irish culture throughout Ireland
but not to impose it on anyone who doesn't want
it and is underpinned by freedom of choice and to
refuse.
The Act should recommend the offices of the Royal
Society be opened in Dublin, Galway, Cork and Belfast
- the office staff being fluent in English and Irish
The Act encourages the Royal Society to fund research
into the learning and teaching of Irish at universities.
The Act should recognise that Ulster Scots is controversial
in Ulster as to whether Ulster Scots is a language
as a mode of speech peculiar to Ulster.
The Act should recommend that this controversy be
settled in a referendum in Ulster
If Ulster Scots is declared in the referendum to
be a language, then the Royal Society should promote
Ulster Scots in Ulster.
See
Also:
Article
1: Democracy
Article 2: The Way of
Life
Article 3: The Crown
Irish
Article 4: Rights, Freedoms
Article 5: The Legal
Profession
Article 6: Government
Politics
Article 7: Religion
Article 8: Policing
Article 9: The Army,
the Navy and the Air Force
Article 10: The Orange
Order
Article 11: Schooling
Article 12: Marriage
Article 13: The Family
Article 14: Culture
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