After SSM, what next?

smash · 06-05-2015 01:54PM #1

So what will be the next big referendum that will have the country divided?

Personally, I'd like to see the divorce laws rewritten. I think the 4yr wait before a divorce can be granted is just crazy. I also want to see fathers rights and abortion laws being revised too.

libelula · 06-05-2015 01:55PM

Ah jaysus will ya stop me head is melted enough!

iDave · 06-05-2015 01:56PM

Blasphemy

walkingshadow · 06-05-2015 01:56PM

If the referendum is passed, on May 23, everyone in Ireland will go gay and engage in a reckless orgy of homosexual indulgence.

keano_afc · 06-05-2015 01:56PM

Polygamy. Its marriage equality for all!!

VinLieger · 06-05-2015 01:56PM

End of the world, obv.....

LDN_Irish · 06-05-2015 01:57PM

Marrying animals and small children if some of the No crowd are to be believed.

rainbow kirby · 06-05-2015 01:57PM

The 8th amendment absolutely has to go.

traprunner · 06-05-2015 01:57PM

The sky will fall in.

fleet_admiral · 06-05-2015 01:57PM

Equal rights for fathers

seamus · 06-05-2015 01:57PM

Assisted suicide.

fleet_admiral · 06-05-2015 01:58PM

keano_afc wrote: »

Polygamy. Its marriage equality for all!!

And bigamy

suicide_circus · 06-05-2015 01:59PM

keano_afc wrote: »

Polygamy. Its marriage equality for all!!

and since the "original" definition of marriage is irrelevant, there should be no obstacle to ushering in our new polygamous utopia.

VinLieger · 06-05-2015 02:00PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

and since the "original" definition of marriage is irrelevant, there should be no obstacle to ushering in our new polygamous utopia.

Marriage for everyone!!!!!! or else.........

jimdublin15 · 06-05-2015 02:01PM

smash wrote: »

So what will be the next big referendum that will have the country divided?

Personally, I'd like to see the divorce laws rewritten. I think the 4yr wait before a divorce can be granted is just crazy. I also want to see fathers rights and abortion laws being revised too.

I would agree on changing the divorce laws, and suspect it would be a split topic. My own thinking is 6 months perhaps 12 months at the most wait before a divorce can be granted is long enough.

Not a NSA agent · 06-05-2015 02:01PM

We'll all die on the 23rd as society crumbles around us.

That or probably abortion.

smash · 06-05-2015 02:02PM

jimdublin15 wrote: »

I would agree on changing the divorce laws, and suspect it would be a split topic. My own thinking is 6 months perhaps 12 months at the most wait before a divorce can be granted is long enough.

With a whole new demographic being able to marry, they'll have to do something about it.

keano_afc · 06-05-2015 02:03PM

suicide_circus wrote: »

and since the "original" definition of marriage is irrelevant, there should be no obstacle to ushering in our new polygamous utopia.

Well thats it, once this referendum passes who defines what marriage is any more?

Robsweezie · 06-05-2015 02:04PM

A John waters murderous rampage

BoJack Horseman · 06-05-2015 02:05PM

Depending on who is in government from 2016, amendments on lowering the voting age and/or extending voting rights abroad for Presidential elections are likely to be the next referendums.

Rhys Essien · 06-05-2015 02:05PM

Religion and religious cermonies(communions and confirmations)having involvement with schools needs to be done away with.

AlmightyCushion · 06-05-2015 02:05PM

What sort of unjust society doesn't allow a man to marry an aborted foetus??? They should have a referendum for that next.

BoJack Horseman · 06-05-2015 02:06PM

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Religion and religious cermonies(communions and confirmations)having involvement with schools needs to be done away with.

That doesn't require constitutional change I don't think.

Schools can do that right now if they chose.

silverfeather · 06-05-2015 02:06PM

smash wrote: »

So what will be the next big referendum that will have the country divided?

Personally, I'd like to see the divorce laws rewritten. I think the 4yr wait before a divorce can be granted is just crazy. I also want to see fathers rights and abortion laws being revised too.

People don't know HOW bad the divorce issue is. Even after an agreement has been reached a woman can appeal for more after her settlement not once but twice should her financial means change. That's after the original agreement has been settled. Most women would never do that obviously but some do.

The issue is that marriage is seen as the family unit. This is NOT a good thing despite what people tell you. A single parent and a child are NOT recognized by the constitution as a family unit. If a mother remarries after her child and the husband and herself are considered the family unit and the biological dad is not.

Unmarried couples can have issues with getting joint parenting rights for the dad even if they are living together. I have a friend who gave birth to a baby boy last year and she lives with her partner but he went home briefly after to get her some stuff and to come back. The hospital wanted to do the birth cert. The form is completed before they discharge the mother from hospital. She had a very difficult birth and she was totally off her head. When she told them the father's name they asked were they married because they had different names she said no. They told her unless he was there they would not put it on. There is no father's name down on the birth cert. Also they wanted to call him Zachery ...she called him ...zebedee.

Abortion is something I would like to see tackled. It will be a blood bath.

AndyBoBandy · 06-05-2015 02:06PM

Whether our traffic lights should go amber (while also on red) for 1 second before the lights go green.

Put it to the people Gaybo, and let us have our say.

suicide_circus · 06-05-2015 02:11PM

keano_afc wrote: »

Well thats it, once this referendum passes who defines what marriage is any more?

the current set up which precludes the polyamorous amongst us from marrying the people they love is a damning indictment of our heinously discriminatory monoga-centric society.

06-05-2015 02:11PM

smash wrote: »

So what will be the next big referendum that will have the country divided?

Personally, I'd like to see the divorce laws rewritten. I think the 4yr wait before a divorce can be granted is just crazy. I also want to see fathers rights and abortion laws being revised too.

You do realise you have probably put off the waivers form voting yes ad have confirmed the conspiracy theory that the yes vote is only the start of a push to undermine society as we know it, which will end with old people being compulsory assisted to commit suicide by the state :P

iDave · 06-05-2015 02:12PM

I presume we'll have to vote on something related to the EU twice.

Maximus Alexander · 06-05-2015 02:13PM

keano_afc wrote: »

Well thats it, once this referendum passes who defines what marriage is any more?

Who defines it now?

BoJack Horseman · 06-05-2015 02:14PM

iDave wrote: »

I presume we'll have to vote on something related to the EU twice.

The last treaty was conveniently self amending (to an extent).

Another EU referendum probably won't be needed for a while, until when/if enlargement occurs again for the former Yugoslav countries.

arayess · 06-05-2015 02:14PM

smash wrote: »

So what will be the next big referendum that will have the country divided?

Personally, I'd like to see the divorce laws rewritten. I think the 4yr wait before a divorce can be granted is just crazy. I also want to see fathers rights and abortion laws being revised too.

I think the 4 year wait for divorce is actually a really good thing, we all know the rebound effect of a break up can have and that 4 year wait prevents you doing something really stupid - again! or at least for 4 years.

hopefully fathers rights will gain some prominence.

I for one have been through family court and while it hasn't worked out too bad in comparison to other - i was given no protection against my ex or in other words there was no sanction against her for her spontaneous decisions to withhold access. It cost me time, money and heart ache and I actually understand why some lads would just walk away cos they can't take the grief. terrible as it sounds.

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