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Equality of marriage and love

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    #902
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    I can't speak for him but I would think he disapproves of the lifestyle not the person, as a RC clergyman I wouldn't expect anything else.

    Well if that is the case, then isn't that just morally darling of him? So we're going with ignorant then, if not hateful. Grand.


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    #903
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,245 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    MrPudding wrote: »
    Am I the only one that missed this?

    MrP

    NSS seem to have misinterpreted the scope of this legislation; while welcome in that it removes LGBT discrimination, it is odious in that it continues to permit religious discrimination.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #904
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,245 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Shrap wrote: »
    Perhaps you're not one of the lesser "morally wrong" people.

    But not an inappropriate one, considering. I'm near sure that the man doesn't actually think he's hating anyone, but in any case it's the effect rather than the intention that is hateful. And if he's unaware of that, then he's ignorant. Which is also a strong word, but appropriate.

    I can think of strong words, and considerably shorter ones at that ;)

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #905
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,401 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    pH wrote: »
    [...] your attempt to sling mud is pathetic.
    Step back from the keyboard, go grab a coffee and come back again, a calmer and better person.

    Thanking youze.


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    #906
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    frostyjacks wrote: »
    I see what I wanna see. I know what I wanna know.
    I don't need you to tell me what's true.

    Statements like this make me weep for society. You're essentially saying you have no interest in learning anything new, because you've made up your mind already.

    That's just depressing.


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    #907
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Statements like this make me weep for society. You're essentially saying you have no interest in learning anything new, because you've made up your mind already.

    That's just depressing.

    I thought he was quoting some song or other - possibly a country and western one - next line was going to be about his wife left him and took the dawg.


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    #908
    frostyjacks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭frostyjacks


    Sonics2k wrote: »
    Statements like this make me weep for society. You're essentially saying you have no interest in learning anything new, because you've made up your mind already.

    That's just depressing.

    It's not a statement, it's a line from an off-Broadway musical. But as it happens, I love learning new things, it's just that the stuff I know already is right.


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    #909
    Kev W
    Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    frostyjacks wrote: »
    It's not a statement, it's a line from an off-Broadway musical. But as it happens, I love learning new things, it's just that the stuff I know already is right.

    If you believe that the stuff you know already is right then you can't learn new things, much less love learning new things.


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    #910
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,245 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    frostyjacks wrote: »
    It's not a statement, it's a line from an off-Broadway musical.

    Hmmm... is there something you're trying to tell us ;)

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #911
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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    #912
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,245 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It's a Wunder this nonsense is allowed to continue...

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #913
    MrPudding
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    What a sad, sad man.

    MrP


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    #914
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Somebody is bank rolling this chap and I'm curious who,
    I know who was likely bank rolling the chap from Co Kilkenny based on previous research but this lad its not so clear


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    #915
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    The judge needs to impose the costs against him.
    He is using this as a stunt, and the taxpayer is footing the bill. In the end he will probably claim it was a "public interest case" so he shouldn't have to pay any of the costs.


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    #916
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Is this a different Gerry Walshe ?
    Seems to have had a lot of stuff about the SSM referendum.


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    #917
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    recedite wrote: »
    Is this a different Gerry Walshe ?
    Seems to have had a lot of stuff about the SSM referendum.

    This is him

    image.jpg

    He hasn't aged well in 5 years if its him!


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    #918
    Huntergonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Huntergonzo


    Could nobody hire some male strippers to escorts to and from court, dancing and prancing him right up to the door, it may not be allowed but it'd make a great photo while it lasted.


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    #919
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Cabaal wrote: »
    He hasn't aged well in 5 years if its him!
    Its hard to tell. Election poster photos tend to be photoshopped.


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    #920
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Huntergonzo wrote: »
    Could nobody hire some male strippers to escorts to and from court, dancing and prancing him right up to the door, it may not be allowed but it'd make a great photo while it lasted.

    How is it not allowed?, they are on a public street. As long as they aren't naked or anything illegal it's fine and dandy :)

    Gardai can of course ask that they stop, but yeah great photo op before hand :)


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    #921
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Here's the polling list from 2011. Same address given; Lisdeen Co. Clare.
    Its strange he is always described as an electrician, as if that was relevant. Never described as a failed politician. Assuming its him, I wonder if he will try again next spring? He's getting plenty of publicity, and as they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.


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    #922
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,197 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Cabaal wrote: »
    How is it not allowed?, they are on a public street. As long as they aren't naked or anything illegal it's fine and dandy
    I've always understood that the whole point about strippers is that they do get naked.


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    #923
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    I've always understood that the whole point about strippers is that they do get naked.

    Yeah eventually, but in the meantime outside the court they go walk around with very little clothing on. You know...just to keep him company as he walks to court.


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    #924
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Huntergonzo wrote: »
    Could nobody hire some male strippers to escorts to and from court, dancing and prancing him right up to the door, it may not be allowed but it'd make a great photo while it lasted.

    Twerking. Male dancers twerking their wobbly behinds to and fro, with buckets to collect change for his fund. Until he takes the money from the male ass shaking dancers, they'll be forced to follow him round the place. In their 'I'm gay but still think Gerrys ok' t-shirts with his mush on them.


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    #925
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    So, not completely naked then, and probably best not to wear those policeman uniforms either.


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    #926
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Cabaal wrote: »
    This is him



    He hasn't aged well in 5 years if its him!

    He, like society, is collapsing under the gay homosexualist onslaught.


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    #927
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,197 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Nodin wrote: »
    He, like society, is collapsing under the gay homosexualist onslaught.
    It's not fair. Why can't I have a gay homosexualist onslaught?

    It was the same in '95, you know. I voted for divorce, having been promised that this would result in a horde of lust-crazed gold-digging floozies seeking to seduce me away from my wife. But no, nothing. Not so much as a mistaken pass that was actually intended for a different overweight balding married middle-aged man. And it's the same again now.

    Promises, promises! I won't fall for the likes of this talk again, I can tell you.


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    #928
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    It's not fair. Why can't I have a gay homosexualist onslaught?

    It was the same in '95, you know. I voted for divorce, having been promised that this would result in a horde of lust-crazed gold-digging floozies seeking to seduce me away from my wife. But no, nothing. Not so much as a mistaken pass that was actually intended for a different overweight balding married middle-aged man. And it's the same again now.

    Promises, promises! I won't fall for the likes of this talk again, I can tell you.

    Have you tried demanding an abortion?


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    #929
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,197 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    If I had been a Heathen,
    I'd have crowned Neoera's curls,
    And filled my life with love affairs,
    My house with dancing girls;
    But Higgins is a Heathen,
    And to lecture rooms is forced,
    Where his aunts, who are not married,
    Demand to be divorced.

    - GK Chesterton


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    #930
    MrPudding
    Registered Users Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    This is good news. if this goes the way it should, and the recent decision on abortion I think NI is running the risk of stepping into the 20th Century. Who knows, it might even make it to the 21st during my lifetime.

    MrP


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    #931
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Any judicial review in NI would almost certainly come up with the same line of reasoning as they did with the FFA abortion thing;it is constitutionally unacceptable for NI to have a law which is repugnant to the European Convention on Human Rights.
    Section 6(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (“the 1998 Act”), which followed the Good Friday Agreement, made it clear that it was outside the legislative competence of the Assembly to pass any provisions which were “incompatible with any of the Convention Rights”. Mr Justice Horner commented that there can therefore be no dispute that one of the assurances given to the people of Northern Ireland was that their human rights as enshrined in the Convention would be protected under this new constitutional settlement:


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