Tag Archives: Marriage Equality

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Eyes down.

Cormac Flynn writes:

A game to play during the upcoming Marriage Equality debates. Each square is a tired No Campaign argument or cliché. Make a line or try for a full house. You can play online or you can print one to twenty randomly-generated cards and play at home or wherever a debate is being televised.

Play here

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Monday night.

Dustin Lance Black at UCD on the May marriage equality referendum.

A memorable speech.

But don’t take our word for it.

Ian Fahy, auditor of the UCD Laaw Society, writes:

I would like to draw your attention to a speech delivered by Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk (2008), Dustin Lance Black at an event to confer him with Honorary Life membership of the UCD Law Society.. Black’s boyfriend, British Diving Champion, Tom Daley also attended the award event.

He delivered an impassioned speech about the strength of storytelling and the effect it can have on winning the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum in Ireland.

It was truly one of the most incredible speeches delivered to the UCD Law Society and has been recognised as such by long standing University officials.

Black is an internationally recognised advocate for Gay rights across the world and took time  to specifically come to Ireland to deliver this speech in the hope of having some impact on the upcoming referendum.

He reminisced about his youth and the struggle he faced with coming to terms with his own sexuality – something that was extremely difficult and dangerous coming from a Mormon-Texan-military family. He called for the youth of Ireland to tell their own stories, something that he claims is the most powerful form of achieving positive change.

My term as Auditor is coming to end, and over my last three years in UCD I have never felt so strongly that an address to our society needed to be published in the national media. I genuinely believe this video if shared can have a real and positive impact upon the Marriage Equality referendum. All I ask is for you to please watch this 18 minute clip (above), and see for yourself.

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This morning.

Members of  the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Youth Committee on  O’Connell Street, Dublin  to encourage voter registration to boost a yes vote in favour of marriage equality in next years referendum.

There is just ONE week left to register.

Top: From left, Dan O Neill (SIPTU), Una Faulkner, (IMPACT), Tiernan Brady (Yes Equality) Linda Kelly (IMPACT), Teresa Walsh (INTO) and Laure Duggan (UNITE).

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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Mothers and Fathers Matter is a group set up to say exactly that, ‘mothers and fathers matter’. We support and promote a child’s right to a mothers and fathers wherever practicable. We believe that the Government’s new Children and Family Relationships Bill is unjust because it says mothers and fathers don’t matter to children.

Mothers and Fathers Matter includes among its members David Quinn of the Iona Institute (top), Ray Kinsella (centre), a Pro-Life activist and Professor at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business UCD and Tom Finegan (bottom), one-time assistant to Senator Ronan Mullen.

The website shares the same IP address as catholicbishops.ie, catholicireland.net, dublindiocese.ie, and gettingmarried.ie .

All because teh gays want to adopt your children.

Previously: Not So Fast, David

Keeping It In The Family

Joseph And The Amazing Off-Colour Dream Quote

Richard_posner_harvardzJudge Richard Posner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MRemxc1gxc

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Meet Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court in Chicago.

On Tuesday, Judge Posner heard arguments against marriage equality  Lawyers for Wisconsin and Indiana attempted to defend their state’s marriage bans. In a series of retorts, the judge slapped down arguments for continuing the ban.

Judge Posner harshly questioned Indiana Solicitor General Thomas M. Fisher and in many instances the solicitor was left with no answer.

He asked Fisher if  gay marriage isn’t  “better for the psychological health or the welfare” of gay people’s kids? Fisher gave a noncommittal answer.

He asked “Why do you prefer heterosexual adoption to homosexual adoption?”, Fisher again struggled to respond.

He then asks why Indiana wants to “punish children” because “their parents happen to be homosexual.”

Adding: “Isn’t it much better for kids to be adopted? But if you allow same-sex marriage, you’re going to have more adopters, right? … You should be wanting to enlist people as adopters.”

Posner then asked Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Timothy Samuelson why Wisconsin doesn’t permit joint adoption by same-sex couples.

Samuelson stated that Wisconsin’s tradition of allowing only opposite-sex marriage is a rational basis for barring same-sex couples from the institution.

Posner asked Samuelson to identify a single rational basis for his state’s anti-gay marriage law.

When Samuelson claimed that “society” is helped by gay marriage bans, Posner replied

“How is it being helped? You’re not trying to force homosexuals into heterosexual marriage. So what is the harm of allowing these people to marry? Does it hurt heterosexual marriage? Does it hurt children?”

Any excuse.

Listen to a Conservative Judge Brutally Destroy Arguments Against Gay Marriage (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)