Editing Jim Duffy (journalist) (section)

==Writings on religion and gay marriage==
He was a contributor to the Irish Times's ''[[Rite and Reason]]'' religious column on more than one occasion. {{Citation needed|date=October 2015}} One article in 1998, proposing the existence of ''Rites of Same Sex Union'' (in effect gay marriages) in early Christian prayerbooks up to mediaeval times, caused a controversy. {{Citation needed|date=October 2015}} The article has been republished on gay websites and some religious websites worldwide and has been quoted in debates on [[gay marriage]] in the United States, France, the Netherlands {{Citation needed|date=October 2015}}  and has also featured in parliamentary debates in Ireland, {{Citation needed|date=October 2015}}  including a submission in 2005 from a gay advocacy group {{Citation needed|date=October 2015}}  to the [[Oireachtas Éireann|Oireachtas]] All-Party Committee on the Constitution, which was exploring whether to amend the [[Constitution of Ireland]] to allow gay marriage.