Michael O’Leary (a different one) on the subject of gay marriage during Vincent Browne’s People’s Debate in Charleville, Co. Cork on TV3 tonight.
Ban marriage altogether?
God damn his beautiful rebel soul.
Meanwhile…
Fidgety Fianna Fáil Cork County Councillor Aindrias Moynihan hesitates, and then declines, to show how he’ll vote in the referendum.
He’s done the numbers..
Thanks Luke O’Riordan
Spotted somewhere in Dublin.
Shane Conneely tweetz:
“I see the IONA Institute are upping their street game. Fight!”
Update:
Once more with emulsion.
Thanks Erin
Alternatively…
According to the 2013 UCC Émigré Report, 70 per cent or so of the 250,000 Irish citizens to have left our shores since 2008 were in their 20s at the time of their departure.
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Polls conducted by students’ unions across a swathe of Irish university campuses have consistently demonstrated that young people are above the national average when it comes to supporting equal access to civil marriage.
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Despite Ireland belonging to a tiny minority of countries that completely disenfranchise their citizens overseas, one of only three within the EU, an external vote by the time the marriage equality is brought before the polls is simply out of the question.
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Given Ireland’s long history of emigration, and the long-standing connection between Irish emigration and failed economic policies, there should be some provision for emigrant representation.
Conor O’Neill and David Burns, founding members of We’re Coming Back, in today’s Irish Times ahead of Sunday’s March for Marriage in Dublin.
Emigrants want to vote in marriage equality referendum (Irish Times)
Previously: This Could Be The Last Time
“I felt proud to be Irish and a member of a society that was showing signs of increasing respect and compassion for fellow citizens. This feeling did not last long, however, and I was dismayed and disheartened at the statements of the Irish Catholic bishops and their intention to mount a campaign of opposition. In light of this approach taken by the Catholic Church I will no longer be attending Mass, nor will I remain a practising Catholic.”
Eimear Bourke, Navan, Co Meath
What took you so long?.
Will YOU still go to mass?
Plan for same-sex marriage in 2015 (Irish Times letters)
Sasko Lazarov, Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland
“Eamon Gilmore, leader of the Irish Labour party, said he hoped the cabinet would decide on Tuesday to set a date for a national vote on endorsing full equality for same-sex marriages. Gilmore said it would be “important to win this referendum” which could be held as early as mid 2014.”
Irish deputy PM pushes for gay marriage referendum date (Henry McDonald, Guardian)
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland
The latest New Yorker cover referencing this week’s US Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage.
By Jack Hunter.
Mmmf.
Previously: Meanwhile, In California
Via Buzzfeed
(L-R) Vincent Browne, Tiernan Brady, Susan Philips, Ailbhe Smyth, Gerry Fahey
on last night’s Tonight with Vincent Browne
Couldn’t bring myself to watch #vinb. I’m done with fanatics being booked as guests to preach hate and hurt people. It’s bullshit.
— Una Mullally (@UnaMullally) April 11, 2013
Turn off programmes that give platforms to hate-filled fanatics.Let the moderates have their say. We should aim for consensus not extremes.
— Una Mullally (@UnaMullally) April 11, 2013
Gay-bashing, gay marriage, and how the media needs to get a grip (Una Mullally, Irish Times)
British prime minister David Cameron’s plan to legalise gay marriage passed its first hurdle in the House of Commons last night – but he was unable to get a majority of his own Conservative MPs to back him.
The legislation, on which MPs had a conscience vote, passed its second stage easily with the support of most Labour MPs, Liberal Democrats and a smattering from the smaller parties, bar the Democratic Unionist Party.
Fifty-five Conservative MPs voted against the government, including DUP Upper Bann MP David Simpson (you’ll remember the hoo-hah caused last year when a recording device was found in the toilet of his constituency office, leading to the arrest of his political advisor), who brought many lols to the House with the following:
“This is not the jurisdiction of this government, of any European government or any government in the world. This is an ordained constitution of God. In the Garden of Eden it was Adam and Steve . . . It was Adam and Eve, it wasn’t Adam and Steve.”
South Antrim MP the Rev William McCrea said moral truths learned “at mother’s knee” were threatened by the legislation, which would “wipe away” values that had held true for centuries for people around the world, irrespective of their beliefs.
The DUP. A great bunch of lads.
(Photo: PA)
A genuine ad in support of Romney’s presidential bid funded by the Campaign For American Values PAC.
Watch it. Then shake your head violently from side to side. Then watch it three more times.
Mitt Romney Anti-Gay Marriage Ad Is Unintentionally Hilarious (HuffPo Comedy)
(Hat tip: Colin Murphy)
THE ULSTER Unionist Party has stated remarks by party member Lord (Ken) Maginnis about the “deviant” practice of homosexuality do not reflect party policy.
Lord Maginnis, the former MP for Fermanagh-South Tyrone triggered calls that he should be censured after he commented on BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen Nolan Show about proposals to legislate for gay marriage in Britain.
Lord Maginnis said he opposed gay marriage because it was “unnatural” and he did not believe society should “have imposed on it something that is unnatural”.
Pink is the new orange.
Fabulous.
Maginnis remarks on gay people ‘not UUP policy’ (Irish Times)
