Irish Referendum

[mushroom25]

a very high turnout has been reported, and a landslide "yes" is being forecast in the urban areas. indeed some prominent "no" campaigners are ready to concede.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32856232

but would that necessarily guarantee an overall result in favour of gay marriage?

and, if the result isn't a "yes", will the government embark on its previously successful "neverendum" tactic until the electorate provides the right answer?

[gness]

Mikey....I will indeed....I'll dust off some of the old records and have a night with the music and the Guinness.....
I just wanted to be dancing in the street tonight....but there's nothing stopping me doing that I suppose.....☺

[retrocop]

Mikey
Was correcting jordybIt's error that's all. The one you said was a Tad. Harsh. GawD

[mikey4444]

OH...OK ! Irony is sometimes difficult to do on a keyboard, as I have found to my cost in the past.

But everybody seems to be happy about this, so I guess we are all united !



Or are we ?

[Father-Ted]

sp, craggy island is very small and most Irish don't live on it.

[Father-Ted]

Gness, I'll fax you a glass of guinness ..so I will.

[gness]

Oh please do, Father Ted.....that first pint in Dublin is always the best....

It's okay here I suppose.....but it's not the same.....

Slánte.....♣

[Kromovaracun]

And to think when I was born, only 25 years ago, it was illegal to be gay in Ireland.

This gives me hope, it really does.

[Father-Ted]

To be sure, it has never been illegal to be gay in Ireland.

[-Talbot-]

1993

homosexuality decriminalised in Ireland.

[DTCwordfan]

to the government and church, it's probably going to be a bummer of a result.

[jomifl]

Talbot, homosexuality wasn't illegal, homosexual acts were illegal.

[mushroom25]

//1993
homosexuality decriminalised in Ireland. //

no talbot. the 1993 act decriminalised acts of male to male sex, not homosexuality itself. it's never been illegal to be gay but it was, until 1993, illegal to manifest that as a physical act.

[mikey4444]

Well, thats that settled then !

[Svejk]

gness
I just wanted to be dancing in the street tonight....but there's nothing stopping me doing that I suppose.....☺

Be careful which street you dance in. There's a lot of muggings in the wonderful new Ireland.

[jomifl]

'manifest that as a physical act.'
That's probably as near to contemplating the reality of the matter as we need to go... :-)

[ichkeria]

Given Irish has no words for Yes or No then such referenda are potentially problematic :-)

[-Talbot-]

Thank you pedants.

[Kromovaracun]

Right. So you could be gay, but you couldn't have sex with anyone.

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Sounds a lot like criminalisation to me.

If, say, our parliament did something monumentally stupid and somehow managed to pass a law banning heterosexual sex between consenting adults, would you feel as though you were being criminalised or not?

[jomifl]

Kromo, nobody was gay then..

[Kromovaracun]

Why was the law introduced in the first place then?