"one party or other would put that reform into their manifesto."
So the decision as to whether priests re qualified to have a voice in running the country are not taken by the people choosing them by election, but by politicians - and that is your idea of democracy?
Whatever happened to your foirst argument that change was brought about by enough people wanting it to happen.
You appear to be making it up as you go along - again!
Now tell us - why do you think priests are qualified to have a say in running a country - bearing in mind of course that you once said that the church had no say whatever in what happened in Ireland (re a woman dying after being refused a pregnancy termination)?
Jim Carroll