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Same Sex Marriage Referendum Mega Thread - MOD WARNING IN FIRST POST

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  • #32
    MrWalsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭MrWalsh


    GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »
    We're just spontaneously deciding that it's alright to discriminate against Muslims.

    Absolutely not, religious marriage is not affected by this referendum.


  • #33
    GCU Flexible Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭GCU Flexible Demeanour


    MrWalsh wrote: »
    Absolutely not, religious marriage is not affected by this referendum.
    Which means the discrimination against Islamic marriages continues.

    I don't know why. Maybe they're not popular.


  • #34
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »
    Which means the discrimination against Islamic marriages continues.

    I don't know why. Maybe they're not popular.

    Again, this referendum doesn't deal with it. It's irrelevant to this referendum. If polygamy relationship want to be recognised through marriage, they can start a campaign. However, it won't affect or by affected by this referendum.


  • #35
    engineerbrah
    Site Banned Posts: 96 ✭✭engineerbrah


    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.


  • #36
    jobbridge4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.

    Can you not see the obscene absurdity of this post?


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  • #37
    frostyjacks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,951 ✭✭✭frostyjacks


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    Enamelled cast iron...hand made in France since 1925...lifetime guarantee...this is what married life is all about.


  • #38
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,644 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Is this thread just going to be another 10,000 posts of the same people disagreeing with each other?

    No, I am going to vary it by disagreeing with myself.

    No, I amn't...


  • #39
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.

    Yea, how about tackling the problem of bullying rather than using this bullshít excuse to sweep it under the carpet?


  • #40
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I don't think you're going to be able to reason with that guy.


  • #41
    MrWalsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭MrWalsh


    GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »
    Which means the discrimination against Islamic marriages continues.

    I don't know why. Maybe they're not popular.

    If you wish to campaign to implement Sharia Law here in Ireland then go ahead.


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  • #42
    Cuban Pete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭Cuban Pete


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.
    engineerbrah wrote: »
    Great news!! And once animals get person status we can start legalising bestiality. #Equality
    engineerbrah wrote: »
    Sadly the whole Western World is in end times. Every time a civilisation in history became hyper-sexual, multiracial & gender neutral, it decayed and eventually fell apart - Rome & Babylon are the best examples. And history is about to repeat itself again. When a nation is no longer bound by blood, language or creed it cannot sustain itself because there is no common goal shared by the inhabitants. There is no natural order in this modern age & nature will punish us to restore the balance needed for the Earth to survive.

    The tragedy is that people today, liberals especially, think we are moving towards some utopian society but in reality they are just embracing their demise. The 'Diversity is strength' slogan mirrors the doublethink analogy Orwell warned us about in 1984.
    engineerbrah wrote: »
    Society may be ok now but it's just gonna get more absurd & politically correct. Things never stay the same, it will continue to change and things you wouldn't dream of will become legal, I guarentee it.

    Before any more time is wasted on this individual.


  • #43
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.
    Yeah, I know what you mean.
    I mean, if we just had the gumption to ban women from being in public without a man and ban above-ankle dresses, then we could prevent rape. But, no, the PC-lobby say that we have to respect women as "equals" and criminalise ordinary, decent, hardworking men who just can't control their sexual urges. *Pshaw*


  • #44
    MrWalsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭MrWalsh


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.

    This is exactly why we need to make same sex marriage legal, to help change bigoted attitudes in society.


  • #45
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,863 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    If we all did that, nobody would vote No.

    .....or yes for that matter.


  • #46
    SireOfSeth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭SireOfSeth


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.

    Well it seems we are moving into a new Ireland that is trying, step-by-step, to leave the past behind and have real empathy for everyone. This Ref is a step in the right direction for sure.


  • #47
    SireOfSeth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭SireOfSeth


    GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »
    I just can remember why, but I've every confidence that each of those 160 differences is a basic denial of human rights.

    With this new thread, I'm getting right on board with the popular people.

    Just need one for it to be unjust.


  • #48
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Cuban Pete wrote: »
    Before any more time is wasted on this individual.

    I'd say he's still coming to terms with interracial marriage.


  • #49
    MrWalsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭MrWalsh


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    I'd say he's still coming to terms with interracial marriage.

    I dont remember having a referendum on that!


  • #50
    gravehold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 912 ✭✭✭gravehold


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    I'd say he's still coming to terms with interracial marriage.

    Lets all pick on the minority viewpoints from our privileged high horses.


  • #51
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/

    I guess it is more important to be politically correct these days than to think of consequences of actions.
    1) I was bullied unmercifully for liking books. Should reading be banned? Wearing glasses? Being ginger? Being tall? Being short?

    2) The problem lies with the families in which the bullies are being reared, not with the families with SS parents.

    3) Gay people already have biological and adopted children.


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  • #52
    jobbridge4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    gravehold wrote: »
    Lets all pick on the minority viewpoints from our privileged high horses.

    Kind of like straight people deciding what is and isn't homophobic or deciding whether gay peoples relationships were really worth the same as theirs.:cool:


  • #53
    gravehold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 912 ✭✭✭gravehold


    jobbridge4life wrote: »
    Kind of like straight people deciding what is and isn't homophobic or deciding whether gay peoples relationships were really worth the same as theirs.:cool:

    You leftist do gooders are meant to be better then them. But as we have seen privilege corrupts


  • #54
    GCU Flexible Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭GCU Flexible Demeanour


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Is this thread just going to be another 10,000 posts of the same people disagreeing with each other?
    And, we'd never get up to 10,000 again.
    sup_dude wrote: »
    Again, this referendum doesn't deal with it. It's irrelevant to this referendum.
    The fact it doesn't deal with it is relevant.
    engineerbrah wrote: »
    I just feel so sorry for all those kids adopted into a gay marriage who are going to be bullied beyond belief for having two dads :/
    I think the problem is more that neither of them will be able to enforce discipline by saying "son, if your mother finds out about this she'll go mad. And if Momma ain't happy, nobody's happy."
    MrWalsh wrote: »
    If you wish to campaign to implement Sharia Law here in Ireland then go ahead.
    Now, that is irrelevant.
    SireOfSeth wrote: »
    Just need one for it to be unjust.
    And is that the one about needing to let more people get married at age 16?

    If it's "160" differences in lights, I take it we're supposed to see a point in eliminating each and every one. Why the need to let more people get married at age 16, instead of eliminating the practice?


  • #55
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,105 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    gravehold wrote: »
    Lets all pick on the minority viewpoints from our privileged high horses.


    Edit: Just spotted Moderator warning.


  • #56
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    MOD: Give the bickering a rest, folks.


  • #57
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,450 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Voting no. Don't like the idea of adoption either and I think the whole argument is very selfish and never thinking of the children (the most important part of the equation) - it's all about the adult's notional "rights".


  • #58
    Hyzepher
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hyzepher


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Voting no. Don't like the idea of adoption either and I think the whole argument is very selfish and never thinking of the children (the most important part of the equation) - it's all about the adult's notional "rights".

    How will children suffer if SSM is introduced?


  • #59
    jobbridge4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Voting no. Don't like the idea of adoption either and I think the whole argument is very selfish and never thinking of the children (the most important part of the equation) - it's all about the adult's notional "rights".

    How much thought have you given to the rights of children, particularly gay children?


  • #60
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,450 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Hyzepher wrote: »
    How will children suffer if SSM is introduced?

    They could suffer in many ways - i'd be most concerned about their peers in their personal lives. I can see many a kid getting a really hard time in this sort of family.

    It's not the natural atomic family unit so I don't agree with it.


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  • #61
    Hyzepher
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hyzepher


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    They could suffer in many ways - i'd be most concerned about their peers in their personal lives. I can see many a kid getting a really hard time in this sort of family.

    It's not the natural atomic family unit so I don't agree with it.

    Should we not be trying to eliminate the source of the bullying rather than restricting the rights of others in case they are bullied?


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