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Civil Partnership is it really that Gay?

  • 21-12-2012 12:33AM
    #1
    GoldenLight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭


    Right I've being to 3 yep 4 Civil Partnerships, 1 was for a same sex couple, but yet I look at the RTE news, tonight you would think that every civil partnership I have attended was, for same sex couples, but what I have just pointed out, out of 4 of them 3 were opposite sex marriages, , eg Male and Female (hetrosexual)

    What is the story with that misrepresentation ?

    PS I'm delighted for all of the couples that want to spend their lifes together.


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  • #2
    Strawberry Fields
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Strawberry Fields


    Anal sex is it really just for gay men?


  • #3
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    No point in going to one of these civil ceremonies. You won't get drunk and ride the brides sister. You'll just end up coughing up an expensive gift and going home only half cut.


  • #4
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    godeas16 wrote: »
    Anal sex is it really just for gay men?

    ah cum on guys


  • #5
    pontia
    Site Banned Posts: 385 ✭✭pontia


    rte and most other media outlets have big numbers of homosexuals working for them,they put their own slant on the figures


  • #6
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,236 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Civil Partnerships are only for same sex couples. Maybe you attended Civil Marriages.

    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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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,734 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    ah cum on guys

    can i but in :D


  • #8
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    Tis a bit gay if ya ask me.


  • #9
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    pontia wrote: »
    rte and most other media outlets have big numbers of homosexuals working for them,they put their own slant on the figures

    How many gay people work in RTÉ? What proportion of the workforce do they make up?


  • #10
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    Isnt that ryan tubridy guy gay.? His defo bi anyways


  • #11
    jenniferalan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭jenniferalan


    GoldenLight wrote: »
    Right I've being to 3 yep 4 Civil Partnerships, 1 was for a same sex couple, but yet I look at the RTE news, tonight you would think that every civil partnership I have attended was, for same sex couples, but what I have just pointed out, out of 4 of them 3 were opposite sex marriages, , eg Male and Female (hetrosexual)

    What is the story with that misrepresentation ?

    PS I'm delighted for all of the couples that want to spend their lifes together.

    Thinly veiled I was on RTE news thread. . .


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  • #12
    pontia
    Site Banned Posts: 385 ✭✭pontia


    i did some work in rte years back,even then the rte workers used to call it fairyhouse


  • #13
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    jenniferalan wrote: »
    Thinly veiled I was on RTE news thread. . .

    Wut?


  • #14
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    pontia wrote: »
    i did some work in rte years back,even then the rte workers used to call it fairyhouse

    It's definitely full of the gays so, and they're using the broadcasting behemoth to push the gay agenda and make children into gays or something. Just switch on RTÉ 1 at any time and you'll see it in Nationwide, Oireachtais Report, Fair City et al.

    You can't argue with that!!


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    How many gay people work in RTÉ? What proportion of the workforce do they make up?

    Judging from kids TV around 150%.


  • #16
    sfwcork
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭sfwcork


    So is rte trying to gay us or make us catch gay?


  • #17
    GoldenLight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Civil Partnerships are only for same sex couples. Maybe you attended Civil Marriages.


    Really and what is the difference?


  • #18
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    It's definitely full of the gays so, and they're using the broadcasting behemoth to push the gay agenda and make children into gays or something.

    Sure that could be an activity for all the family on christmas day....while waiting for the turkey to cook, everyone could gather round and make a gay.


  • #19
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    sfwcork wrote: »
    So is rte trying to gay us or make us catch gay?


    Both, presumably. Certainly anyone who had to sit through the rose of tralee as a child may develop an adverse reaction to women that could haunt them forever.


  • #20
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Nodin wrote: »
    Sure that could be an activity for all the family on christmas day....while waiting for the turkey to cook, everyone could gather round and make a gay.

    ...and here's one I gay'd earlier


  • #21
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Struggling to think of the last gay character I saw on RTE...


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  • #22
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Struggling to think of the last gay character I saw on RTE...


    Didn't Miley come down with the gay at one stage?


  • #23
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Nodin wrote: »
    Didn't Miley come down with the gay at one stage?

    No! He came in the hay.


  • #24
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Chucken wrote: »
    No! He came in the hay.


    No, I was misrembering. He was never gone on Dick


  • #25
    GoldenLight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    GoldenLight wrote: »
    Really and what is the difference?

    Someone stated that civil parnership is different to civil marraige, I would like to know what the difference is, seen as I started a tread of everything being equal, I really would like to know the difference between one or the other, I can't see it. Please explain the difference of how I witnessed a loving partnership between two gay friends(both boyfriends) and my nephew and his then girlfriend, also my cousin and his then girlfriend. Each are as equally right to be married as each other, So over to you guys now


  • #26
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    GoldenLight wrote: »
    Someone stated that civil parnership is different to civil marraige, I would like to know what the difference is, seen as I started a tread of everything being equal, I really would like to know the difference between one or the other, I can't see it. Please explain the difference of how I witnessed a loving partnership between two gay friends(both boyfriends) and my nephew and his then girlfriend, also my cousin and his then girlfriend. Each are as equally right to be married as each other, So over to you guys now


    You're confusing civil partnerships with a civil marriage. Civil partnerships are same sex only.


  • #27
    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    GoldenLight wrote: »
    Someone stated that civil parnership is different to civil marraige, I would like to know what the difference is, seen as I started a tread of everything being equal, I really would like to know the difference between one or the other, I can't see it. Please explain the difference of how I witnessed a loving partnership between two gay friends(both boyfriends) and my nephew and his then girlfriend, also my cousin and his then girlfriend. Each are as equally right to be married as each other, So over to you guys now

    There are many legal differences between a Civil Partnership and a Civil Marriage.

    http://www.marriagequality.ie/getinformed/marriage/faqs.html


  • #28
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    GoldenLight wrote: »
    Someone stated that civil parnership is different to civil marraige, I would like to know what the difference is, seen as I started a tread of everything being equal, I really would like to know the difference between one or the other, I can't see it. Please explain the difference of how I witnessed a loving partnership between two gay friends(both boyfriends) and my nephew and his then girlfriend, also my cousin and his then girlfriend. Each are as equally right to be married as each other, So over to you guys now

    It's an ecumenical matter.


  • #29
    KDII
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭KDII


    http://www.marriagequality.ie/learn/civilpartnershipbill.html

    I'm on my phone but you will find a brief outline of the differences there.

    While the wedding experience may seem the same, the actual marraige is far from it. Civil partnership is not equal to marraige unfortunately.


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    EarthlyPangaea wrote: »
    There are many legal differences between a Civil Partnership and a Civil Marriage.

    http://www.marriagequality.ie/getinformed/marriage/faqs.html

    That link being underlined makes the end of the URL look un-PC at first glance.


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  • #31
    griffdaddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,414 ✭✭✭griffdaddy


    GoldenLight wrote: »

    Someone stated that civil parnership is different to civil marraige, I would like to know what the difference is, seen as I started a tread of everything being equal, I really would like to know the difference between one or the other, I can't see it. Please explain the difference of how I witnessed a loving partnership between two gay friends(both boyfriends) and my nephew and his then girlfriend, also my cousin and his then girlfriend. Each are as equally right to be married as each other, So over to you guys now

    There are a few slight differences, mostly in the area of parenting. A same sex couple in a civil partnership can't adopt a child together, only one of the partners can. This can lead to difficulties, especially if they break up. A couple that are married can adopt the child together. There are also grey areas about how the constitution recognises the structure of the family, and it's at odds with European directives in some respects insofar as it considers a family unit to primarily be composed of opposite sex parents. If you read the ICCL/GLEN Know Your Rights handbook that was published today you'll see more comparisons.

    If you meant is there a reason why they should be treated differently, then no, of course there isn't.


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