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corksean

(475 posts) Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:57 AM Dec 2014

Ireland to hold referendum on gay marriage in May

Source: Guardian UK

A referendum on legalising gay marriage in Ireland will be held in May, the Republic’s deputy prime minister announced on Tuesday evening.

Tánaiste and Irish Labour leader Joan Burton confirmed that the cabinet in Dublin had agreed to hold the vote then.

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The latest opinion poll in the Irish Times found that 71% of the Republic’s electorate would vote yes and allow for legal gay marriages in the state.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/ireland-gay-marriage-referendum-may

About time.

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Ireland to hold referendum on gay marriage in May (Original Post) corksean Dec 2014 OP

Yipee! shenmue Dec 2014 #1

I am hopeful, but not ready to celebrate just yet. Behind the Aegis Dec 2014 #2

Burton just looking for a feather in her very shredded cap .... rizlaplus Dec 2014 #3

June 28, 1986 -THE IRISH UPHOLD BAN ON DIVORCE BY 3-TO-2 MARGIN - that country has sure changed Douglas Carpenter Dec 2014 #4

One factor is probably that Ireland is no longer a rural country Maeve Dec 2014 #5

Yay! Voring on civil rights again! n/t Orsino Dec 2014 #6

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. Yipee!

Reply to corksean (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:12 AM

Dec 2014

Behind the Aegis

(53,956 posts)

2. I am hopeful, but not ready to celebrate just yet.

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Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:16 AM

Dec 2014

rizlaplus

(159 posts)

3. Burton just looking for a feather in her very shredded cap ....

Reply to corksean (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:34 AM

Dec 2014

This is the same person that demonised those protesting the depredations visited on ordinary families and citizens.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)

4. June 28, 1986 -THE IRISH UPHOLD BAN ON DIVORCE BY 3-TO-2 MARGIN - that country has sure changed

Reply to corksean (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 07:58 AM

Dec 2014

DUBLIN, June 27— The Irish have voted overwhelmingly to keep the nation's ban on divorce, delivering a severe setback to the Government of Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, according to returns announced today.

Mr. FitzGerald personally led the fight to end the Irish Republic's standing as the only Western European nation without legal divorce. But the returns from the balloting Thursday showed that the voters rebuffed the proposal by a margin wider than 3 to 2.

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/28/world/the-irish-uphold-ban-on-divorce-by-3-to-2-margin.html

It is amazing how much a whole country changed in such a short period of time.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)

5. One factor is probably that Ireland is no longer a rural country

Reply to Douglas Carpenter (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 17, 2014, 10:37 AM

Dec 2014

In cities, more people know they have gays among their friends and family and aren't so afraid. And the various scandals in the Church have turned people away from looking there for guidance. The two combined seriously weaken the old conservative arguments.

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

6. Yay! Voring on civil rights again! n/t

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Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:25 PM

Dec 2014

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