Tag Archives: Same-sex marriage referendum

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Dougal of VotewithUs writes:

Roscommon artist Anne Rigney  talks about imagining an Ireland where all are not equal i.e. now. Anne wants her son, Daragh, and his partner, Lior, to have the same rights as her daughter, Cara. She has written a short piece asking other parents to imagine being in a situation like hers and the result is a reflective and thought-provoking call for any parent to vote Yes in May…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXSJfa-LbZc

Further to [University College of Dublin independent paper] The University Observer’s marriage equality referendum wraparound.

Brian Mathuna, of UCD SU writes:

We have also produced a number of videos to back up this campaign.This one (above) is especially good….

Previously: Decent Irish Wraparound

90374420From left: Mairead McGuinness MEP (Midlands North West), Brian Hayes MEP (Dublin), Deirdre Clune MEP (Ireland South) and Sean Kelly MEP (Ireland South)

Yesterday afternoon.

At the European Parliament, Brussels, Belguim

Urging a Yes vote in the marriage referendum  Fine Gael’s four MEPs “reiterated” Ireland’s “strong record” when it comes to “defending human rights and promoting equal opportunities for all citizens, including the LGBT community”.

*cough*

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(Oireachtas/Photocall Ireland)

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With their mad languages.

And spicy foodstuffs.

Stealing our referendums.

Alan writes:

I create graphics for the YesEquality social media campaign for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The 2011 census found that 514,068 persons spoke a language other than Irish or English in the home. Now there are 60,000 new Irish citizens since 2011, born in other countries, who are entitled to vote in the referendum this coming May.

To this end, I created graphics detailing the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s statement regarding the upcoming referendum, translated into various languages of the world. As you can see, it’s a work in progress. We’re working on stage 2. So if anyone doesn’t see their language represented, we’re encouraging people to submit their translation to alan@yesequality.ie

Find Your Language here

Yes 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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‘Eddie has dreams but he can’t get moving anymore. Life was perfect for him and Val. They’d always dreamt of opening a little place of their own… And then one night, just as they found the ideal place, a kiss changed everything forever…’

Ooer.

Shay Kavanagh writes:

We’re just about to head into rehearsals with anew play, The Kiss.  It’s the first new play in support of the same sex referendum.  We need a little cash to get us up and running so we’ve started a FundIt campaign…

The Kiss By Jimmy Murphy (Fundit)

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Augustinian priest Fr Iggy O’Donovan

Boy could he play guitar.

…Many, perhaps most of us, will I suspect find that we are being asked to vote not for the right cause over the wrong cause. Matters are far more complicated than that.

Churches have views, ideals and laws about these issues and they, quite properly, teach their members about those views. (Although in churches, there are differences of emphasis and variations in pastoral practice).
When we become legislators, though, as we do when we vote in referendums, we legislate for ALL our fellow citizens. We do not vote as members of this or that church or faith.

Of course we cannot leave our religiously based moral convictions outside the polling station, but we do need to remember the difference between civil and religious law.

We also need to remember that it is possible to have deep and passionately held convictions without seeking to have those convictions imposed by the State on fellow citizens who do not share them and may have opposite convictions which are equally deep and passionately held.

When we vote in referendums we legislate for all citizens not just members of a church (Fr Iggy O’Donavan, Irish Times)

Earlier: Annagry Is An Energy

(Pic: Examiner)

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MORE same sex propaganda.

Miss Panti writes:

Everybody, whether LGBT or not, has a role to play in getting the marriage equality referendum passed. It’s important to let people know it’s important to you.
With that in mind, designer Niall Sweeney has put together a whole range of  images like the one above which are available for anyone to use. They come in all sorts of formats, JPEG, GIF, PDF, ready for online sharing, printing as posters, t shirts, stickers… whatever you want! You’ll find them all at the Dropbox link here. Have a look through them and use any you want and please share the link widely. Thanks.

Miss Panti (Facebook)

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