Would anybody support a repeal of the 34th(marriage referendum)?

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 09:14AM #1

Almost everyday we read threads and posts about people calling for 8th amendment to be repealed. Would you ever like to see a repeal of the marriage referendum? Just trying to get After Hours views on it!

Pherekydes · 14-03-2017 09:27AM

Get your fresh popcorn here! Fresh popcorn!

tomwaterford · 14-03-2017 09:28AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Almost everyday we read threads and posts about people calling for 8th amendment to be repealed. Would you ever like to see a repeal of the marriage referendum? Just trying to get After Hours views on it!

Let it go lad

vicwatson · 14-03-2017 09:29AM

Be nice if you gave us a link to the exact article in the constitution op so we could vigorously read it and give you our response ASAP

Poor Uncle Tom · 14-03-2017 09:30AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Almost everyday we read threads and posts about people calling for 8th amendment to be repealed. Would you ever like to see a repeal of the marriage referendum? Just trying to get After Hours views on it!

What exactly are you trying to control?

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 09:31AM

vicwatson wrote: »

Be nice if you gave us a link to the exact article in the constitution op so we could vigorously read it and give you our response ASAP

https://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/acts/2015/a34th15.pdf

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 09:36AM

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

What exactly are you trying to control?

When the 8th amendment passed. It passed fairly easily even getting more support than the marriage referendum. Now, people are calling for it to be repealed. I'm just wondering is their support now or will their be a large amount of people in 2047 calling for a Repeal of what our generation forced on them.(Like how the previous generation forced 8th amendment on us)

Maximus Alexander · 14-03-2017 10:51AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Repeal of what our generation forced on them.

I know, it's a disgrace. My forced gay marriage is coming up next month and I couldn't be angrier about it.

Mr. CooL ICE · 14-03-2017 10:54AM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I know, it's a disgrace. My forced gay marriage is coming up next month and I couldn't be angrier about it.

I'm angry because once you're married, you'll be stealing healthy babies from the arms of their married straight mothers

Poor Uncle Tom · 14-03-2017 10:56AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When the 8th amendment passed. It passed fairly easily even getting more support than the marriage referendum. Now, people are calling for it to be repealed. I'm just wondering is their support now or will their be a large amount of people in 2047 calling for a Repeal of what our generation forced on them.(Like how the previous generation forced 8th amendment on us)

For Gods sake, it's there, focus on what's important....

I can't take you seriously anymore, and for that reason I'm out....

Effects · 14-03-2017 11:00AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

will their be a large amount of people in 2047 calling for a Repeal of what our generation forced on them.

If you're a man who doesn't want to marry a man, then don't
If you are a woman who doesn't want to have an abortion, then don't.

Billy86 · 14-03-2017 11:00AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When the 8th amendment passed. It passed fairly easily even getting more support than the marriage referendum. Now, people are calling for it to be repealed. I'm just wondering is their support now or will their be a large amount of people in 2047 calling for a Repeal of what our generation forced on them.(Like how the previous generation forced 8th amendment on us)

How about this - if tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people are extremely unhappy with it in 30-odd years time we hold another referendum on the 15th amendment. Of course this means we hold another referendum in the next year on the 8th amendment which is from 34 years back. Sound good?

Though going by how the age demographics voted, I highly doubt there'll be a large amount of people unhappy with it in 2047. I don't think there were was a huge proportion of the US in 1997 unhappy with their parents for making interracial marriage legal in all states 30 years earlier, for example.

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 11:03AM

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

For Gods sake, it's there, focus on what's important....

I can't take you seriously anymore, and for that reason I'm out....

Thanks for the grammar advice, Mr Dragon!

By the way I supported the marriage referendum!

Poor Uncle Tom · 14-03-2017 11:20AM

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

I'm angry because once you're married, you'll be stealing healthy babies from the arms of their married straight mothers

And what happens the children when you grow out of this 'phase'.....

14-03-2017 11:24AM

I personally want to repeal the 4th, 18th (I don't know what the Amsterdam Treaty is, but Amsterdam is full of hookers and hash, so y'know it's not a good thing), and the 26th, because I keep reading it as nice and not Nice.

Winterlong · 14-03-2017 11:26AM

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

And what happens the children when you grow out of this 'phase'.....

Or is cured.

Your Face · 14-03-2017 11:52AM

I'm taking the 5th, see.

lawred2 · 14-03-2017 11:53AM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Almost everyday we read threads and posts about people calling for 8th amendment to be repealed. Would you ever like to see a repeal of the marriage referendum? Just trying to get After Hours views on it!

what?

stimpson · 14-03-2017 12:09PM

I'd like to keep gay marriage but ban gay divorce. I'm still on the fence over gay abortions.

sullivlo · 14-03-2017 12:15PM

Nicolas Cage wrote: »

I'm angry because once you're married, you'll be stealing healthy babies from the arms of their married straight mothers

Yes, babies that actually belong in septic tanks.

Why would we let a homosexual adopt a baby when we could look after them ourselves?

:rolleyes:

Repeal the 34th? Nah, you're grand thanks. As Maximus said - I'm looking forward to my forced same sex marriage.

Oh and I'm, hopefully, looking forward to my forced abortion at some stage in the future.

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 12:23PM

lawred2 wrote: »

what?

What don't you understand?

The 8th amendment was strongly supported back in 1983 and people are asking for it to be repealed now.I'm just wondering would anybody here like to a repeal of the marriage referendum!

lawred2 · 14-03-2017 12:27PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What don't you understand?

The 8th amendment was strongly supported back in 1983 and people are asking for it to be repealed now.I'm just wondering would anybody here like to a repeal of the marriage referendum!

I don't understand why someone would ask such a question barely two years after the original vote.

What do you think has changed in the intervening two years?

Or is it a case that you're in some way obsessed about the gheys and what they're up to?

Are you making some oblique point about repealing the 8th? If you are, I can't quite see it.

osarusan · 14-03-2017 12:29PM

In principle I suppose I should support the right of the electorate to campaign for the revision of any part of the constitution.

So while I wouldn't support a repeal of the amendment, I think people should have the right to campaign for it.

I would like to know, though, what people in 2034 might think the amendment 'forced on them'. Apart from simply living in a country in which same-sex marriage is legal, I can't think of anything.

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 12:30PM

lawred2 wrote: »

I don't understand why someone would ask such a question barely two years after the original vote.

What do you think has changed in the intervening two years?

Or is it a case that you're in some way obsessed about the gheys and what they're up to?

I supported the marriage referendum( you look back on my posts in 2015) and still do.
I'm not obsessed with the gheys either. I'm just wondering has anybody had a change of heart because they saw the negative effects of same sex marriage.

lawred2 · 14-03-2017 12:32PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I supported the marriage referendum( you look back on my posts in 2015) and still do.
I'm not obsessed with the gheys either. I'm just wondering has anybody had a change of heart because they saw the negative effects of same sex marriage.

?

you supported a referendum that you described as having been 'forced' on the people and you also believe that there have been subsequent negative effects of same sex marriage..

Forgive me but someone who supported the referendum and still does wouldn't use such terminology..

ohnonotgmail · 14-03-2017 12:33PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I supported the marriage referendum( you look back on my posts in 2015) and still do.
I'm not obsessed with the gheys either. I'm just wondering has anybody had a change of heart because they saw the negative effects of same sex marriage.

lawred2 wrote: »

?

i'm with lawred2 on this. what negative effects?

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 12:33PM

lawred2 wrote: »

?

Well I haven't seen any but other might!

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 12:35PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

i'm with lawred2 on this. what negative effects?

I haven't seen any negative effects of same sex marriage. However somebody who'd like to see it repealed might have and I'm wondering what they are.
Do you understand that?

ohnonotgmail · 14-03-2017 12:36PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Well I haven't seen any but other might!

well you must have some idea of what these negative effects might be or else why mention it? Though for the life of me i cant imagine what these negative effects might be. It had no effect on non-gay people and only a possible positive effect for gay people.

freshpopcorn · 14-03-2017 12:40PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well you must have some idea of what these negative effects might be or else why mention it? Though for the life of me i cant imagine what these negative effects might be. It had no effect on non-gay people and only a possible positive effect for gay people.

Well from what I remember the No campaign made a big deal out of children not having a mother and farther. So making an educated guess.
Somebody who voted yes might have witnessed a child raised in a same sex family desperately crying out for a mammy and daddy!

Larbre34 · 14-03-2017 12:43PM

We'll look for a fresh mandate for it in 2049.

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