Dil Wickremasinghe (with bump) and her partner Anne Marie
A happy couple.
A baby shower.
What could possibly go wrong?
Newstalk broadcaster and LGBT activist Dil Wickremasinghe writes:
I woke up last Sunday morning super-excited because my partner had organised a baby shower with my dearest friends that evening. It was meant to be a happy occasion until I looked at my Twitter feed….
These were between a person I had previously blocked and David Quinn of the Iona Institute, demanding to know who the father of my child was. I was speechless. I couldn’t believe that someone at the forefront of an organisation and a campaign could be so insensitive. How could a person who has continuously requested a fair and respectful debate around the upcoming Same-Sex Marriage Referendum make such a personal attack?
Read on: The Iona Institute’s David Quinn Has Crossed The Line Of Decency (TheOutmost)
Thanks Jane Casey
“Who’s the father?”
“Well, that’s hardly any of your business, quinnstain now is it?”
Ah here, ‘c@mstain’ is hardly a swearword.
“Quinnstain”? If Broadsheet.ie are proposing some kind of Rick Santorum strategy for Quinn I am totally on board.
Yup, am totally here for this.
This. Several times this.
I can proudly say along with Mark Humphries they are two of the most irritating men on the tweet machine. Quinners has me blocked…
YES
+ faeces
Submission made to urbandictionary.com
Here’s how Dan Savage got momentum going for the ‘santorum’ neologism campaign. Just in case, *cough* anyone is interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism
The downright hypocrisy of David Quinn: https://twitter.com/Colmogorman/status/572078511407538176
This! +100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Excellent point. +100000000
Who was Jesus’s father?
Wasn’t he was begotten/begat or something?
They could reboot the franchise with ‘Jesus Begat’
But only by magic. Ha, good one Mary, ya slapper!
Oh.. true
*hangs head*
Interior: Christ residence. Mary is sitting on the bed. Towering over her is a radiant figure, be winged and possessing an angelic countenance.
Mary: But I’m a married woman…
Angel: you want to be famous, don’t you?
Mary, stifling a sob: Yes. Yes.
Angel, dropping his robe to the ground: his will be done but my kingdom come, baby.
Mary: Jesus!
Joseph bought it !
See what happens when people aren’t taught proper biology in schools?! If only Joseph had known how babies are really made…
If he even existed (and that’s a big if, we’ve less evidence for Jebus than Apollonius of Tyana) then a nameless Roman soldier was probably his daddy.
The whole virgin birth thing was due to Greek jews not being able to translate the torah from Aramaic, and christians being too idiotic to realise that the prophecy Jebus was supposed to be fulfilling was fulfilled 650 years previously, as told to them in the self-same torah. D’oh!
Just a pair of cowards. If you caught them face to face they’d very likely soil themselves
They are just obsessed with what happens in people’s genitals/bedrooms
Exactly.
Its pervy and weird
Very odd people, but dangerous also.
And overies
Mind you.
He can have mine if he wants them
I’m done with the pair of’em
Just a feckin nuisance now
Alas, MariaLouise’s account has since been suspended by twitter…
https://twitter.com/FintanOToolbox/status/572751880188776448
ha! finally!
Demanded how?
It’s just more ammo to shoot them down the next time Iona push their way onto a national debate on the topic.
There is no truth to the rumour that David Quinn spends his Saturday afternoons wandering around the Ilac centre stopping pregnant woman and asking who the father is before checking their finger for a ring.
Is it in the mornings he does it?
haha brilliant
In fairness, Dil and David deserve each other. Both self promoting pains in the hoop. Giving and taking offence like bosses.
Dil is a Sri Lankan (originally, she’s an Irish citizen now) lesbian, a woman of colour living in Ireland. David Quinn is a white male Catholic. You’re kidding yourself if you think they get the same amounts or kinds of abuse.
and this is why the turnout for the referendum will be so low.
last one was to bluebeard
Correct. Its the extremes talking to themselves. The middle is being ignored. Although I have seen a few promising campaigns being spawned now.
+1
‘The middle is being ignored.’ #OMG hilar
How does this debate even have a middle? It’s fairly yes or no.
Tbf, you get offended by most posts on here, so may you’re the superboss?
I dont do offended Don. I leave that to the professionals like you.
Do you? If anything, you are even worse than me and I’m a sanctimonious leftie pinko commie b*****d. Every comment you leave on here is a massive eye-roll of offence about something or else, its an epic commitment to being the most boring troll here. I have to admire the dedication I guess.
No Don. I dont do offence. A pointless excerscise. i never understood how you get so much fun out of it. You’d find it in a song like poor Jaques. Each to their own.
Ha, good one! lol
I love how, because even you can’t defend this indefensible, you can instead try to assert that both sides are equivalent
Ah sorry BS. I thought the language I used to describe Mr Quinn was more temperate than most. Let me just reassert that i find them both pains in the hoop, despite any ethnic, gender or religious backgrounds.
So are you saying that in this specific instance, they are both equally in the wrong?
Not saying anything of the kind. I suppose I’m saying that once again all these arguments get hijacked by the extremes and its just descends into a po-faced orgy of offence. I see a tasteless tweet by a well known catholic campaigner get a huge overreaction from an LGBT campaigner and I see the boring predictable spew of hate at the tweeter. Clickbait and old and lazy and dumb and wallowing in the tut tutting that defines debate on here. I sigh with sadness. Je suis triste. Je sis fatigué.
“well known catholic campaigner”
Y’know, I can’t help but think that there are a few mistakes in that sentence. I don’t think he campaigns for catholicism, or Jesus would rise from the fupping dead to strangle him into silence out of pure disgust. Also, isn’t that the pope’s job, technically? Wouldn’t there be union trouble?
And saying he’s a catholic… well… you really have to prefix that with “awful” or “really awful” or “honestly, the pope would like him to join another church discretely”.
“well-known pain in the fundament” seems a much more accurate term.
So you actually agree with the people ‘outraged’ by this tweet but because you see yourself as a benchmark moderate you feel obliged to downplay your agreement in favour of what they call ‘tone policing’ or ‘concern trolling’ so that you can carve out a foundation, however shaky, for a ‘plague on both your houses’ stance. Given the nature of online debate and the deplorable fact that almost any set of exchanges will involve some depth of abuse and bullying, is this the only topic where you use the presence of such invective to distance yourself from agreement with one side, or do you use the lowest common denominator in all debates and divisions to create a sense of your own superiority to all of those engaged in such fractious debates? That is to say, do you use the fact that oftentimes in modern disputation there are people fighting the good fight badly and problematically to deny the fact that there is a good fight to be fought at all, and that people fighting it are worthy of respect and support?
How you can be outraged by the blindingly predictable is beyond me. It smells of fake. People looking for something to be outraged about. Usually the same crowd and about the same things. The rest of your post was way tldr. Soz.
Homophobia is boringly predictable. Although the people who have to directly put up with it might disagree about the ‘boring.’ And their friends. And their families. But to you, the reaction to an ongoing persiatent wrong must be a yawn. And you get outraged when people don’t yawn along with you.
Nigel. Stop trying to put me in one of your right/wrong boxes. The world isn’t like that. I get outraged by very little anymore. Even the word outrage… its meaningless anymore.
+ Nigel
Bluebeard expertly called out for the poisoning narcissistic dwarf that he is.
‘Stop trying to put me in one of your right/wrong boxes.’
Oh you’re wrong. You’re even wrong about yourself, because you’re clearly outraged about other people being outraged.
Read that back to yourself. You actually wrote that. And then pressed send.
Was it tldr for you? Soz.
:-). That’s good.
That’s nice. Who’s the father?
guiseppe conlon is the father. i though everyone knew that.
guiseppe’s dead, mon
They killed Guiseppe.
Auntie Annie made the bomb and Mother Theresa planted it!
All the more tasteless and thoughtless of Quinstain given his own family circumstances. I’d have thought that even he would have more decency.
You’re missing one vital difference – Quinstain and his wife have opposing naughty bits.
OPPOSING NAUGHTY BITS!!!!
*allegedly
What would those circumstances be Piggy
what a d1ck.. you’d think he’d be happy at the prospect of another little soldier in the fight to colonise outer space in the name of the lord.
I can’t believe you posted that as scottser.
You couldn’t change your handle to Scotty for even one post?
What a waste of a perfectly good punchline…
what, you want me to ‘pull a jock’?
oh, my punchline, i shall do what i like with it.
*places thumb on nose, wiggles fingers*
http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/how-tough-are-scotsmen.jpg
touche
It’s quite the pickle he’s put Dil in.
I found your punning a little bit (cu)cumbersome.
I’m gonna relish Mani’s reply.
He mayo have the appetite for it
No condom-ents here…
That pun just doesn’t pass mustard.
But there IS a father somewhere, right?!
It’s a male baby, so there would have to be a sperm donor.
Which, by the way, is why that whole lark about Jesus being a virgin birth was just showing off. (Parthenogenesis results in female offspring, so _Jessica_ would have been something new but not necessarily something completely biologically impossible , but _Jesus_, that was just taking the piss).
Not necessarily…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3323846/Sperm-cells-created-from-female-embryo.html
Science!!
That’s really cool… but that’s not what parthenogenesis means :P
I know what parthenogenesis is. The point was you don’t necessarily need a father to make sperm to make a boy baby.
Two thousand years ago in the middle east, I don’t think you had the medical equipment necessary to be mucking about with stem cells to be honest.
Unless….
…wait, are you saying aliens abducted Mary and knocked her up with their probes to make an Alien Jesus?
Because I gotta tell ye, that’s a *much* more believable story than the stuff we got read to us by the brothers in the CBS…
Dude. Its God. He can do whatever. He has the superpowers to invent stem cell technologies
…I think I’ll stick with the aliens-abducted-mary story, it’s a darn sight more believable.
I mean, it’s probably even more likely than parthenogenesis in primates…
Hey, works for Scientology right?
Certainly gets them that tax-free status allright…
I hate you edit box.
Point of the above was: there has to be a sperm donor (at least with our current level of medical ability and technology).
There doesn’t have to be a father.
And if you need the difference explained, you have my sympathies over your shitty, shitty childhood.
Yes, I’m actually not sure if Quinn is asking ‘who’s the sperm donor’ or ‘which one of you lesbians is the butch one, hur hur.’ Obnoxious either way.
It’s Quinn. I don’t think he could avoid being obnoxious even if he tried at this stage.
Lads, Quinn is miffed he wasn’t asked. That is all.
Quinn can’t have a baby, he doesn’t have a womb. Where’s the fetus going to gestate, in a bucket?
“ladyflower”
… there are no more words. And some of your audience may need medical attention for vasovagal attacks.
Millions of them, I’m one myself.
25/11/2014?
The dates on the tweets are last Nov 2014 – is this an old story?
The dates on the tweets are from last Nov 2014 – is this an old story? Can someone explain
I think it’s that the tweets were only brought to her attention last weekend when someone republished them (possibly when the Maria person had been banned from Twitter for the things they were saying).
“I couldn’t believe that someone at the forefront of an organisation and a campaign could be so insensitive”
Have you not heard of the Iona institute before?
If only David, or me, had read the piece. IVF. The father is in a vial in the clinic.
Now, go away
Vile little man I would hate him to be my father
Vial little man
Testing alright
David Quinn is obviously a hateful individual but Dill is becoming increasingly annoying.
‘…when did you stop eating your wife?’…
…oops…sorry Iona….I meant housemate.
Quinnstain eile anseo!
And
Congratulations Ladies
Hope there’s many more
David Quinn at his best but perhaps he should have thought about his question a tad more: https://twitter.com/Colmogorman/status/572078511407538176
It’s none of David Quinn’s business.. or anyone else’s who anyone’s father is, or mother..
He is like a modern version of the town gossip, peeing through curtains, and spying on his neighbors..
But instead of through curtains, down at the local parish, he gossips and interferes in people’s lives through social media, RTE and national newspapers..
Utterly Sad and pathetic man..
His attitude has nothing to do with faith or spirituality, he uses religion in order to justify that he’s a nosey interfering oul gossip monger..