Atheist Ireland is asking voters to vote for candidates who support secular policies in the Irish General Election this Friday. We realise that most people will vote based on economic policies or party allegiance. In such cases we are asking people that, if several candidates share your views on these wider issues, to please choose the candidate that most supports a rational, ethical, secular Ireland.
Atheist Ireland has received official replies, from the parties and independent candidates, to six questions that we asked them on secular policy issues. You can read the answers from candidates in each constituency on our website. We also have a secular analysis of each party’s manifesto, written by our lobbying officer, Dr Conor McGrath, a former Westminster lobbyist and university lecturer in political lobbying.
The six secular policy questions that Atheist Ireland asked each party and candidate were about providing nonreligious schools, removing religious references from the Constitution, repealing the blasphemy law, providing nonreligious hospitals, making religions subject to equality and employment law, and making religions pay tax on income that does not come from charitable activities.
Here’s a link to a summary of the secular policy positions of the parties, in alphabetical order, and to details of the secular policies of independent candidates in each constituency:
How did the parties and candidates reply to our questions on secular policies?
