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

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  • #3422
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    It's in my make up. It's just the way I am.

    Vote NO.
    What make up do you wear?


  • #3423
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    People are entitled to vote how they want to vote. If they vote no they should not be insulted.If they vote yes they should not be insulted.


  • #3424
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    Vote NO.


    How much for a cat


  • #3425
    Canyon86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Canyon86


    the Yes campaigners seem to be very in your face and nearly aggressive in their campaigning,
    in my area at least this seems to be the way,

    they turn you off voting Yes!!


  • #3426
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,084 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Specialun wrote: »
    People are entitled to vote how they want to vote. If they vote no they should not be insulted.If they vote yes they should not be insulted.

    Very true however people are also entitled on a discussion forum when someone professes to be voting one way or the other to question why, cus you know its a discussion forum?


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  • #3427
    Tasden
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,166 ✭✭✭Tasden


    Specialun wrote: »
    People are entitled to vote how they want to vote. If they vote no they should not be insulted.If they vote yes they should not be insulted.

    And gay people should not be insulted either. But they're being compared to child molesters, being told they don't deserve to marry the person they love. That they would make bad parents. The list of insults I've heard is actually heartbreaking. They should be entitled to marry whoever they want and not be insulted .


  • #3428
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Canyon86 wrote: »
    they turn you off voting Yes!!

    Are you not voting on how you have reasoned out the question we're voting on rather than what people are saying about the campaigning?


  • #3429
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Do the people going after Cat fur sale think they are going to change his/her vote to a Yes?

    I'm just asking, as I wouldn't go after a voter with a different view to myself in that way, if I genuinely wanted to change their vote.


  • #3430
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Yes campaigners and no campaigners have not been canvassing here so far in the countryside, the politicians that have are more concerned with the by-election.


  • #3431
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Very true however people are also entitled on a discussion forum when someone professes to be voting one way or the other to question why, cus you know its a discussion forum?


    Thats an amazing story..where did anybody say otherwise


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  • #3432
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,435 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Do the people going after Cat fur sale think they are going to change his/her vote to a Yes?

    I'm just asking, as I wouldn't go after a voter with a different view to myself in that way, if I genuinely wanted to change their vote.

    I'd say they're pulling the piss out of a rereg who had to rereg for a reason.


  • #3433
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,084 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Do the people going after Cat fur sale think they are going to change his/her vote to a Yes?

    I'm just asking, as I wouldn't go after a voter with a different view to myself in that way, if I genuinely wanted to change their vote.

    Nobody is yet to "go after" them from what ive seen, also their posting history speaks volumes


  • #3434
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    http://www.thejournal.ie/islamic-centre-same-sex-marriage-referendum-2052978-Apr2015/

    And heres a church giving sage advice to its members.
    The Irish Muslim community, entitled to vote in their homes constitutional referendum, is calling for a vote of conscience, pointing out their own position on homosexuality, and this surprises no one, but being sure to mention inclusion and equality while leaving to individuals to vote with their own judgement being paramount.
    Or maybe I'm reading it wrong.
    Either way it's interesting to see our Muslim brothers and sisters teaching our Catholic leaders something about the nature of equality and trusting your members to choose wisely, without the need for strong directives.


  • #3435
    Cats fur sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Cats fur sale


    In all fairness? A man marrying a man? Is this a jokey jokey type referendum? Is this all for a laugh or something? I mean this can't be serious can it?


  • #3436
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    In all fairness? A man marrying a man? Is this a jokey jokey type referendum? Is this all for a laugh or something? I mean this can't be serious can it?

    Of course not - it's all a ploy to try and win Eurovision.


  • #3437
    Canyon86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,223 ✭✭✭Canyon86


    Shrap wrote: »
    Are you not voting on how you have reasoned out the question we're voting on rather than what people are saying about the campaigning?


    Ya of course Im voting on the question,

    Point I was making was that the Yes side from experience are a bit aggressive in their campaigning,

    no need to get in a strop over it! ha


  • #3438
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,435 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    In all fairness? A man marrying a man? Is this a jokey jokey type referendum? Is this all for a laugh or something? I mean this can't be serious can it?

    It's ok. Less than a week to go. It'll all be over soon. Back under your bridge now, like a good little fella.

    ;)


  • #3439
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    endacl wrote: »
    I'd say they're pulling the piss out of a rereg who had to rereg for a reason.

    They should report if they believe that, and I by right should report trolling. Leave it to the mods to decide.


  • #3440
    Cats fur sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Cats fur sale


    Vote NO.


  • #3441
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    Vote NO.

    NO.


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  • #3442
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,435 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    Vote NO.

    If I promise to vote no, will you promise to go away?


  • #3443
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Canyon86 wrote: »
    Ya of course Im voting on the question,

    Point I was making was that the Yes side from experience are a bit aggressive in their campaigning,

    no need to get in a strop over it! ha

    Ah, it all becomes clear to me now. If you can call the manner I just asked that question to be stroppy, I can see exactly how you think Yes campaigners are "in your face" and "aggressive"! :pac:


  • #3444
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    I am meeting more and more No voters now. They are getting brazen :)
    But some of their reasoning is absolutely nuts. Loads of diverse reasons but 95% of them are irrelevant to the referendum. One old guy said he did not want to see homosexuals kissing in public!!


  • #3445
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Canyon86 wrote: »
    Point I was making was that the Yes side from experience are a bit aggressive in their campaigning

    Can you give examples?


  • #3446
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,165 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I am listening to two "vote no" campaigners, a TD (Mattie McGrath) and a Senator (Jim Walsh) on the latest debate. Mattie is now proposing that the CP Act be upgraded and placed in the constitution, even after he admitted that he voted against the CP Bill coming into law. Jim and Mattie (Mattie for a 3rd time - 17 million -in this live debate) are attacking Atlantic Philantrophy funding the Yes side, with Jim saying that GLEN is working from within the Govt.

    I had a moment of anger while listening to Mattie and Jim, more so at Mattie, an urge to punch him in the face and call him a liar. To listen to him talking about how the in-house debate on the marriage issue was rushed, while the CP debate lasted for 5 years. He has during the debate said he voted against the CP Bill. I'm listening to Jim bringing up the usual red herrings here, solely with the intent to drag out the allotted time for the live debate.


  • #3447
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Baggy Trousers wrote: »
    I am meeting more and more No voters now. They are getting brazen :)
    But some of their reasoning is absolutely nuts. Loads of diverse reasons but 95% of them are irrelevant to the referendum. One old guy said he did not want to see homosexuals kissing in public!!

    I don't want to see chung wans and chung fellas drunkly ateing the faces off each other and playing tonsil hockey on a Saturday Night in Pana but no body is giving me the option of voting if it should be allowed...

    :mad:


  • #3448
    Cats fur sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭Cats fur sale


    endacl wrote: »
    If I promise to vote no, will you promise to go away?

    Am I not entitled to express my feelings?

    Why do you want me to go away?


  • #3449
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    endacl wrote: »
    If I promise to vote no, will you promise to go away?

    Not helping
    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    Am I not entitled to express my feelings?

    Why do you want me to go away?

    Absolutely - but in a respectful, non-trolly way.


  • #3450
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,084 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Cats fur sale wrote: »
    Am I not entitled to express my feelings?

    Why do you want me to go away?

    You are indeed but you just refuse to actually engage and discuss things on a discussion forum


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  • #3451
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,165 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    RobertKK wrote: »
    They should report if they believe that, and I by right should report trolling. Leave it to the mods to decide.

    Take a roll back, if you will, to the "Cats fur sale" posting above at 13.36, look and read what's written in it, and then give us your honest opinion on it. Do you think he/she is a person as genuinely committed to the Vote No campaign as you are, or is he/she ripping the arse out of both sides for fun?


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