One must admire the consistency with which the modern progressive turns a blind eye toward what is inconvenient and glares with moral indignation at what is harmless. Former Irish President Mary McAleese has now turned her well-developed sense of indignation toward infant baptism, calling it, in an Irish Times essay, “a key Catholic recruitment tool” that violates children’s human rights. She insists no child is born Catholic, and thus no parent has the right to affiliate them with the Church before they can choose for themselves.
This is offered as a defense of autonomy, of course — the latest banner under which the secular conscience wages its noble battles. And yet, McAleese belongs to the very culture that insists children too young to spell “gender” must be allowed to select one, preferably under state guidance. That those same children cannot receive a splash of water and a blessing without international rights law being summoned from Geneva would be comic, were it not treated with such self-regard.
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