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Gay Marriage and Ireland  [message #58165] Sun, 02 August 2009 11:03 Go to previous message
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Anyone following the gay marriage debate in Ireland at the moment?


I think its an unusual one not because the debate is taking place, but because of the Community's stance on the issue.

Ireland seem quite happy to be passing a civil partnership bill that seems largely similar to what we have here, and about half the gay lobby groups in Ireland and a surprising number of their supporters are opposed to it. At Dublin Pride, a group of activists symbolically tore up a copy of the act, because it didn't go far enough in granting actual marriage or recognising the marriages of those people who get married in canada or spain.

Personally, I'm with them. I oppose civil partnerships for two reasons. 1/ its segregationist law making (one law for gays one law for straights) 2/ it makes it harder to achieve gay marriage.

I have no problems with religious groups not wanting to be forced into marrying gay couples they disapprove of. If large christian groups want to be homophobic, let them. Albeit the Quakers recently voted to lobby the government to let them marry gays. But civil marriages, of which the majority in the UK are, should not discriminate.


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