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The ‘StandUp4Love’ event is on in Vicar Street  [Vicar Street, Dublin] TONIGHT.

A lineup of comedy, storytelling and music orgainised by Dublin Institute of Technology [DIT] students to raise awareness for a YES vote.

Rob Kenny writes:

Confirmed acts include: Panti Bliss, Hudson Taylor, The Rubberbandits, Ham Sandwich, Tara Flynn, Rainy Boy Sleep, Davina Devine, Vann Music and ‘The Big Gay Couch’ hosted by Eoghan McDermott, where he will chat to Brendan Courtney, Anna Nolan and Panti Bliss about why a yes vote in May is so important for the LGBT community in Ireland. One of Ireland’s funniest and best-known comedians is confirmed as the host of the night and we will be keeping his/her identity a secret to surprise guests on the night!

Tickets here

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Grey Pride…

With some reservations.

Samuel Riggs writes:

Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union (TCDSU) have unveiled their new #RingYourGranny video, encouraging young people to talk to their families surrounding the upcoming same-sex marriage referendum. The video (above) , which features a number of Trinity students calling their grannies, parents and families, is part of TCDSU’s wider voter registration campaign, which managed to register 3,100 students in Trinity in November. TCDSU are setting their sights high, and hope to register another 1,000 before registration closes on April 29th.

TCDSU (Facebook)

Oh.

Update:

Rense.com?

Rense Web Site Promotes Anti-Semitic View (ADL)

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This afternoon.

DIT campus, Grangegorman, Dublin.

Telly’s Eoghan McDermott (above) with models Thalia Heffernan (top left) and Holly Carpenter and  Students from DIT college launching   ‘StandUp4Love’ (which takes place in in Vicar Street on March 19].

‘StandUp4Love’ is a DIT student produced comedy,music and storytelling night aimed at raising funds for the Yes campaign in May’s  Marriage Equality referendum.

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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Stephen McGrath writes:

The company I work for, Phorest Salon Software, has decided that they wanted to raise awareness of the upcoming referendum, which I think is just an amazing show of support.. This loading screen for our software [above] will be seen in 2,000 salons and spas in Ireland and the UK. Could not be prouder working here. Maybe other businesses might take a stance…

Anyone?

Phorest Salon Software (Facebook)

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Ireland’s State-run postal service An Post has denied that a stamp produced for Valentine’s Day is intended to back a Yes vote in the forthcoming same-sex marriage referendum. According to The Irish Catholic newspaper, the latest stamp, employing the word ‘LOVE’ in multi-coloured lettering, also includes, as part of the red letter ‘E’ an equals sign, an internationally recognised symbol for support of gay marriage.

An Post denies stamp is ‘pro-gay marriage’ (Iona Institute)

Pro same sex marriage stamp criticised (The Irish Catholic)

(H/T: Rep)

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Yikes.

Defiant retooled tricolour and comment  from the Facebook page ‘Defend Marriage in Ireland Husband and Wife’.

Laura writes:

I noticed this comment when I was reading through some on the page (sucker for punishment). I commented asking if the administrator on the page was okay with it. My comment was deleted and the original comment untouched. Depressing stuff.

Defend Marriage In ireland: Husband And Wife (Facebook)

 

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Same sex marriage.

And large blade-based slaughter.

Take it away Iona Institute’s Ben Conroy

But can the state really guarantee this right? Let’s look at a couple of examples.

One of the people who’s pretty convinced that the right to a mother and father means nothing is journalist Vincent Browne. But imagine if a mad axe-man were to sneak into the TV3 studios of an evening and kill Vincent and his unfortunate panel stone dead.

The state could certainly prosecute the man after the fact: but that would be no good to Vincent. His right to life would stand thoroughly un-vindicated.

The example need not be so drastic: people have accidents, get ill, grow old. In the end, the right to life is completely unguaranteeable.

What’s that you say? The state can’t absolutely guarantee any right, but it can do whatever is reasonably possible to ensure rights are vindicated? Precisely.

How can the state preserve Vincent Browne’s right to life in the mad axe-man scenario? It can employ police officers to keep an eye out for masked men with large blades; it can pass laws making it illegal for people to carry axes on the street; it can disincentivise the axe-man from going on a murder spree using the threat of prison.

It can also take more indirect measures: trying to ensure that as many children as possible grow up in circumstances that minimise their chances of becoming axe-wielding maniacs; using the law as an educator to help create an anti-axe-murder culture. In fact, the state doe all of these things!

So it makes perfect sense to talk about vindicating rights even when that can’t be done with certainty. In fact, if you can think of any right that can be guaranteed with 100% of the time, I’d love to hear from you, because I can’t.

Right so.

Is the right to a mother and father meaningless? (Ben Conroy, The Iona Blog)

Thanks Fluffy Biscuits.

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‘Marriage May Be Contracted In Accordance With Law By Two Persons Without Distinction As To Their Sex’

The wording of the May same sex marriage referendum. The Cabinet met this morning to discuss the referendum along with one on reducing the age limit for presidential election candidates from 35 to 21 years of age. No exact date has been given for the vote.

Fight!

Wording of Marriage Equality referendum published (RTÉ)

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Update:

“This is a historic day for Ireland and Irish people. The proposed wording would amend the Constitution to add a right for lesbian and gay couples to have a civil marriage. Today we move a step closer to full inclusion in our Constitution for lesbian and gay couples. The referendum will put the question of equality in the Constitution for lesbian and gay couples to the people, as recommended by the Constitutional Convention. The referendum, if carried, will complete the remarkable 25-year journey to Constitutional equality for lesbian and gay people in Ireland”

Kieran Rose, chairman of Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)

“We have made great progress towards equality based on the generosity and fairness of the Irish people and we are confident that we can appeal to this sense of generosity and fairness once more. The proposed wording would ensure that existing marriages and future marriages of men and women are not altered in any way. The proposed amendment would update the Constitution to say that any two people can marry, regardless of their sex. This wording rightly emphasises that the intention is to extend marriage ‘without distinction’ as to the sex of the spouses, thereby removing the last roadblock to the recognition in law of the full equality and dignity of same sex couples.”

ICCL Mark Kelly, director of the Irish Council on Civil Liberties (ICCL)

“We look forward to a positive campaign for the referendum which focuses on the value of marriage to everyone in Irish society and explains why marriage matters to lesbian and gay couples. Irish people rightly take constitutional change very seriously and our job over the next four months will be to engage in a national conversation with the citizens of Ireland to understand and assuage any concerns, and to encourage people to have their voices heard on the day.”

Grainne Healy, chair of MarriageEquality.ie