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Sh*t the No Campaigners Say

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    #32
    lottpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭lottpaul


    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32753085
    What the neighbours are being told -- the No campaigners at the end of the clip are "interesting" - esp what they would do if the Yes side wins -- one would pray quietly and in fairness is dignified, the other invokes Sodom and Gomorrah :(


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    #33
    Hoochiemama
    Registered Users Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Hoochiemama


    Got called a heterophobe at my front door by a no campaign for voting yes. As a straight woman I found this highly amusing


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    #34
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    Posted a picture of myself wearing a Yes Equality badge on my Facebook the other night. One of my friends asked why I was voting yes, so I explained that I think everyone should be allowed to marry the person they love. Among the responses from this same woman was this:

    "... changing the rights of a child is hidden in this scam of equility and I will not be so uneducated to trust the government in their latest hidden agenda vote."

    She also insulted me, and several of my friends, along with basically calling me stupid for voting yes. I thought about taking the picture down and removing her comments but why should I? I'm proud to be voting yes and I won't let someone else's insults change my mind.


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    #35
    hdowney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    Some people shouldn't be allowed to think since they obviously cant


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    #36
    gravehold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 912 ✭✭✭gravehold


    hdowney wrote: »
    Some people shouldn't be allowed to think since they obviously cant

    Was that said by a yes campaigner?


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    #37
    hdowney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    I have actually heard it said (in slightly different words) by both sides.


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    #38
    galljga1
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    Hoochiemama wrote: »
    Got called a heterophobe at my front door by a no campaign for voting yes. As a straight woman I found this highly amusing

    A friend of mine was called a homocide years ago.


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    #39
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    x Purple Pawprints x wrote: »
    Posted a picture of myself wearing a Yes Equality badge on my Facebook the other night. One of my friends asked why I was voting yes, so I explained that I think everyone should be allowed to marry the person they love. Among the responses from this same woman was this:

    "... changing the rights of a child is hidden in this scam of equility and I will not be so uneducated to trust the government in their latest hidden agenda vote."

    She also insulted me, and several of my friends, along with basically calling me stupid for voting yes. I thought about taking the picture down and removing her comments but why should I? I'm proud to be voting yes and I won't let someone else's insults change my mind.

    One of your ex-friends?


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    #40
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    galljga1 wrote:
    One of your ex-friends?
    Yes, I should have use that term loosely tbh. 'Friend' in the Facebook sense of the word.


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    #41
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,844 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    surpy wrote: »
    There's a chap on Facebook currently arguing about "mens rights". He's currently fixated on how women can use mens toilets but if here went into the ladies there would be uproar...

    Almost Feel sorry for how deluded some people are

    Ah yes, the Butthurt Dweller contingent of the No vote. :pac:


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    #42
    Demonique
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Demonique


    eviltwin wrote: »
    The American crazy who says SSM will lead to abortion

    So they think gay people will abort the accidental pregnancies they catch from boinking people of the same sex?


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    #43
    Demonique
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Demonique


    Vihaan Famous Hairdo wrote: »
    Not quite an Irish campaigner, but...

    "If you think there's no connection between gay marriage in America and the earthquake in Nepal, you obviously don't know the way that god thinks. Consider it him warning us." ~ Michele Bachmann

    I've heard similar from no people about the mural on George's Street being washed away.

    I've always wondered what would happen if someone was struck by lightning at an anti-LGBT or anti-abortion rally? Would they take it as a sign from god that he thinks they're a bunch of ****faces?
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Breda O'Brien banging on about how the Yes campaign is being funded.

    She can ... because they are all open about their funding and have registered as Third Parties with the SIPO.

    While her own "charity" is notoriously secretive about it's funding and refuses to register as a Third Party.

    However ...

    http://bocktherobber.com/2013/06/what-exactly-is-the-iona-institute/

    Her own charity? You mean Feminists for Life (oxymoron, you can't be a feminist if you're anti-abortion) or the Ipoona Institute?


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    #44
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,844 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    ^It's almost certainly both.


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    #45
    L1011
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    David Quinn's comments today are getting towards the insane

    1: People will get married for a joke or as a "friendship pact". Considering 95% of people of suitable age are already capable of getting married, why is this not happening already if its so certain to happen with the other 5%?
    2: Something incomprehensible about family trees.

    Its almost as if he's run out of ideas, thankfully only one more news cycle to hear from them...


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    #46
    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Last night's Prime Time debate brought that one up. The lawyer dude (mates, apparently, with William Binchy) mentioned a case in New Zealand about two guys getting married as a joke. I'm incredulous that that's how the no side choose to spend their 50% equal coverage time.


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    #47
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    surpy wrote: »
    There's a chap on Facebook currently arguing about "mens rights". He's currently fixated on how women can use mens toilets but if here went into the ladies there would be uproar...

    Almost Feel sorry for how deluded some people are

    good lord, some people are just pure head melts.


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    #48
    L1011
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    Aard wrote: »
    Last night's Prime Time debate brought that one up. The lawyer dude (mates, apparently, with William Binchy) mentioned a case in New Zealand about two guys getting married as a joke. I'm incredulous that that's how the no side choose to spend their 50% equal coverage time.

    New Zealand has simplistic divorce laws, costing about €150 if uncontested. We don't.
    New Zealand requires 3 to 5 days notice of a marriage. We require a lot longer.

    The hoops to jump through in getting married and divorced here are sufficient to ensure that nobody is going to do it for a joke. However, it was entirely possible for the NZ case to have happened with mixed-sex marriages already.


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    #49
    Clearlier
    Registered Users Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭Clearlier


    Aard wrote: »
    Last night's Prime Time debate brought that one up. The lawyer dude (mates, apparently, with William Binchy) mentioned a case in New Zealand about two guys getting married as a joke. I'm incredulous that that's how the no side choose to spend their 50% equal coverage time.

    It's not really that surprising. The no campaign has been all about misdirection and bringing up irrelevant topics. They're hoping that by pointing out the nonsense extremes people might recoil to their side.

    Back on topic - it seems that someone thinks that we shouldn't be having the referendum because the implications for birth certs may not have been fully worked out (nevermind that it's a surrogacy not a same sex marriage issue).


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    #50
    tomato1234
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭tomato1234


    Everyone! Free taxis to your polling stations! No excuses!

    http://blog.uber.com/dublin-votes?fb_ref=Default


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    #51
    hdowney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    Guy on Facebook shared a link to 'what's next' if the vote is passed. An article about two men in Pennsylvania who wanted to get married to sort their affairs but couldn't cos it was illegal at the time. So apparently one adopted the other. Then a court ruled that the law against ssm was unconstitutional. So now they want to nullify the adoption and get married like they originally planned.

    Basically he (fb twat) was saying the gays will all go out and marry their adopted children if we pass the referendum! !!


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    #52
    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    It just highlights the lengths people will go to to protect their family in the absence of ssm.


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    #53
    Ash885
    Registered Users Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Ash885


    And it also highlights the daft mindsets of some people. Some of what I've heard over the course of this referendum really doesn't say much for decent common sense.


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    #54
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,844 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Another hit from the "Butthurt Dwellers for No" campaign: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=95580138


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    #55
    Lawliet
    Registered Users Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭Lawliet


    A group of European politicians are claiming there's some sort of government and police conspiracy and people are being intimated into voting yes. The multinationals are in on it too, I can only assume the evil plan goes a bit like:

    1. Achieve marriage equality
    2. ????
    3. PROFIT!!!


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    #56
    Ash885
    Registered Users Posts: 639 ✭✭✭Ash885


    Lawliet wrote: »
    A group of European politicians are claiming there's some sort of government and police conspiracy and people are being intimated into voting yes. The multinationals are in on it too, I can only assume the evil plan goes a bit like:

    1. Achieve marriage equality
    2. ????
    3. PROFIT!!!

    An increase in public's happiness will surely mean more money spent. God we've all fallen for it!! :pac:


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    #57
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭circadian


    Lawliet wrote: »
    A group of European politicians are claiming there's some sort of government and police conspiracy and people are being intimated into voting yes. The multinationals are in on it too, I can only assume the evil plan goes a bit like:

    1. Achieve marriage equality
    2. ????
    3. PROFIT!!!

    "It's a trap!!"


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    #58
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭circadian


    Ash885 wrote: »
    Everything and anything posted on Keith Mills twitter. I don't follow him but when I need a good laugh I skim through some of his "thoughts" ^^ if some new gems crop up I'll post them on here.

    Had a look for the first time.

    I thought it was a parody account at first.


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    #59
    hdowney
    Registered Users Posts: 12,921 ✭✭✭✭hdowney


    I have now been told by a no mong on fb that the vote has EVERYTHING to do with religion and NOTHING to do with politics.

    A VOTE. To CHANGE the CONSTITUTION. Has NOTHING to do with politics!!!!!!!


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    #60
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    hdowney wrote: »
    I have now been told by a no mong on fb that the vote has EVERYTHING to do with religion and NOTHING to do with politics.
    A mong? Nice - says more about you than it does about him. Ironic that you choose language in an Equality debate that demeans people with intellectual disabilities.


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    #61
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,880 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Right folks Mong is an offensive term. Don't use it again.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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