Mary McAleese, former president of Ireland, believes that babies shouldn't be baptized. To baptize an infant, she said, “imposes lifelong obligations of obedience to the Church's Magisterium.”
In an interview with the Irish Times, McAleese expanded upon her objection, calling the children “infant conscripts.” There has to be a point, she said,
“...at which our young people, as adults who have been baptized into the church and raised in the faith, have the chance to say, 'I validate this' or 'I repudiate this.'
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