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State Apology to Homosexuals

  • 19-06-2018 10:42PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/0619/971510-apology/

    I watched the proceedings in the Dail this evening and I have to say I feel very proud of Ireland and that's saying something as I've never been one for national pride.

    As I watched the proceedings and TD after TD recounted the veritable horror of the lives of ppl who have been persecuted over the generations especially gay men I couldn't help but feel amazed by how far this Catholic conservative country has come.

    If there is a God, and He put us here as a test that decides whether we get past the pearly gates - he certainly does set hard coursework.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


    How many homesexuals in total were shot in those years?


  • Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Apparently at least one other country used to chemically castrate gay people until quite recently, in between lecturing the rest of the world about "civilisation". Did the Irish state do that?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    AllForIt wrote: »

    If there is a God, and He put us here as a test that decides whether we get past the pearly gates.

    What an odd concept.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    How many homesexuals in total were shot in those years?

    Shot or shot dead?


  • Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Apparently at least one other country used to chemically castrate gay people until quite recently, in between lecturing the rest of the world about "civilisation". Did the Irish state do that?

    Sure the Irish state didn't even have the balls to hang their own death penalty criminals when it was still on the statute books. Used to fly the British executioner over to drop the lever, kick the chair out, or whatever it was they did.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,580 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    What an odd concept.

    Especially as we are told He knows all things already. So why the test?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Apparently at least one other country used to chemically castrate gay people until quite recently, in between lecturing the rest of the world about "civilisation". Did the Irish state do that?

    Egypt. They have a lot to answer for. I know they love their mummies just like the Irish but there really is no further comparison.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭ Diana Short Crosswalk


    Another pr stunt to deflect from
    Other issues eg health and homeless issues ...don’t see any apologies for those waiting on trolleys.... the social media/pc brigade will lap it up


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Nobody should ever apologise for something they didn't do. Nobody can apologise on behalf of some other person or body. It's perfectly OK to acknowledge that something wrong was done in the past and to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future.
    I remember Tony Blair apologising for the Irish famine and I thought that it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard a U.K. Politician saying. Tony Blair had nothing to do with the famine so how could he apologise for it.
    Anyone who did wrong can, and should, apologise. Those who didn't do the wrong have no business apologising.

    (BTW Have the Danes ever apologised for the Viking raids?)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Another pr stunt to deflect from
    Other issues eg health and homeless issues ...don’t see any apologies for those waiting on trolleys.... the social media/pc brigade will lap it up

    Over the years of following politics I have always found whether the argument is "There are other issues the gov should be more concerned about" or "They are only taking about this to deflect from that" - to be the most unconvincing arguments one could ever hear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Nobody should ever apologise for something they didn't do. Nobody can apologise on behalf of some other person or body. It's perfectly OK to acknowledge that something wrong was done in the past and to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future.
    I remember Tony Blair apologising for the Irish famine and I thought that it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard a U.K. Politician saying. Tony Blair had nothing to do with the famine so how could he apologise for it.
    Anyone who did wrong can, and should, apologise. Those who didn't do the wrong have no business apologising.

    (BTW Have the Danes ever apologised for the Viking raids?)

    I suppose its because the state is still in existence. It wasn't an individual matter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭DickSwiveller


    Yawn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Yawn

    Yawn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,854 ✭✭✭Nermal


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    (BTW Have the Danes ever apologised for the Viking raids?)

    Unfortunately so: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/aug/16/ireland

    No doubt profferring meaningless apologies will now somehow get us on the hook for compensation claims.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Mikenesson


    Sure the Irish state didn't even have the balls to hang their own death penalty criminals when it was still on the statute books. Used to fly the British executioner over to drop the lever, kick the chair out, or whatever it was they did.

    Ya if they still had it you'd be doing it with a keyboard press


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Nobody should ever apologise for something they didn't do.

    What about things they did do? Like criminalize homosexuality?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,112 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Talk is cheap.

    And from the mouths of politicians!

    Meh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Apparently at least one other country used to chemically castrate gay people until quite recently, in between lecturing the rest of the world about "civilisation". Did the Irish state do that?

    Mod: The next time you soapbox in an irrelevant thread, you'll take a week off.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,492 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Nobody should ever apologise for something they didn't do. Nobody can apologise on behalf of some other person or body. It's perfectly OK to acknowledge that something wrong was done in the past and to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future.

    Considering homosexuality was decriminalized in 1993 and ingrained homophobia ran through much of Irish society in the 1980s (google Declan Flynn or Charles Self) it is fair to say that many people directly penalized by these laws, or indirectly - gossip and shunning - are still alive and I'm sure they appreciate hearing this apology from the state and the sense of validation that comes with it (whatever about it being long overdue)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Talk is cheap.

    And from the mouths of politicians!

    Meh.

    I think FG did bring around the marriage ref no? Or did that happen all by itself as if by magic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    AllForIt wrote: »
    What about things they did do? Like criminalize homosexuality?

    The people who criminalised homosexuality are long dead and gone. Nobody can apologise on their behalf.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Mutant z


    There may need to be a lot more apologising in future when you look at the demographic change which is currently taking place in this country and the less than friendly views some of those demographs hold towards gay people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    The people who criminalised homosexuality are long dead and gone. Nobody can apologise on their behalf.

    Perhaps some of them spoke from heaven to ppl on earth to do so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Talk is cheap.

    And from the mouths of politicians!

    Meh.

    Probably just looking to piss off the DUP in the north who would be demanding an apology from homosexuals.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,019 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,112 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    AllForIt wrote: »
    I think FG did bring around the marriage ref no? Or did that happen all by itself as if by magic.

    You're also forgetting the LP and Citizens Assembly in your rush to give the Bluehirts the credit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    Mutant z wrote: »
    There may need to be a lot more apologising in future when you look at the demographic change which is currently taking place in this country and the less than friendly views some of those demographs hold towards gay people.

    Every thread


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,712 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Well that may be so I've no idea, but I wouldn't compare illegal contraception to criminalizing homosexuality, but I get your point on social conservatism which did effect everyone - and I'm glad it's gone from this country.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,365 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Mutant z wrote: »
    There may need to be a lot more apologising in future when you look at the demographic change which is currently taking place in this country and the less than friendly views some of those demographs hold towards gay people.

    Obsessed.


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