Comments on: Irish gays demand full marriage rights

By: lgbtNOISE

lgbtNOISE — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:47:06 +0000

Thanks for the support folks – here’s a few pics to give an idea of how things went on the day!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1095816@N23/?added=1

By: Greg747

Greg747 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:56:28 +0000

A chara to my overseas cousins in Eire, from a Sinn Fein supporter who lives in New York!

We, too, face hurdles in our local State Senate. All I can say is keep fighting for full equality.

Civil unions are second-class – the principle of separate but equal needs to be put out in the trash bin of history and carted away.

The race for marriage equality is on! Who will be first: New York or Ireland?

I hope it’s a tie!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:28:35 +0000

The UK civil partnerships are pretty much gay marriage without the name and in the UK now in there laws there is virtually NO discrimination against gay couples, the Ireland civil partnership bill is not even close to the UK civil partnerships, In fact the state of Califorina with domestic partnerships which a gay couple can enter into actually offers more benefits and rights than the proposed irish civil partnerships bill.

By: Rodney Moore

Rodney Moore — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:57:02 +0000

Awesome,,

I love my Irish cousins, and wish them the best because they deserve it. Marriage equality and gay rights are an international movement and as long as we (cheesy cliché) think globally and act locally we’ll continue to advance. Setbacks are horrible, but we can’t let fear run our movement.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:55:54 +0000

The Catholic Church intruded upon the Constitution and wrote in their dogma. The government can revise this and has done so before.

By: Wimsy

Wimsy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0000

The constitution is not the problem — hidebound old sots are the problem. When 84% of the people favor official recognition of gay relationships and 53% say it should be marriage, that crowd in the Dåil should listen.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:32:10 +0000

The UK did civil partnerships.

Let’s show the UK that the Irish are committed to equality for all and open up marriage for all couples.

I am not so sure the constitution is the problem. However, if it is, then why not have a referendum and allow the people to vote on amending it in favor of allowing same sex couples to vote.

Irish people are fair and would not let their gay and lesbian brothers and sisters down. At least 50% of them would not. This is Ireland, not California.