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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    I did a little canvassing this evening . Anyone I have come across who is voting no has been either crazy or just unpleasant about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Em only surrogacy vouchers are acceptable actually. Soz.
    Reported.
    Another idiotic reason to vote No - Shambolism.
    I hope you never register.
    Reported.
    Gintonious wrote: »
    This is the one thing I wish I was back in Ireland for.

    I hope my vote won't be needed and Yes is put through. C'mon people, do the right thing.
    Reported.

    All reported for bullying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,169 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Another Iona leaflet in the door (they did not knock or ring) - Five reasons to vote No.

    One of them is that the debate was "one sided"!

    Even with only 10 people on the No side, they were mandated 50% of airtime in every debate, and it was one sided? Well, lads, maybe you should have put up a better argument!

    I can't wait for the blasphemy referendum. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Magenta


    5starpool wrote: »
    The exit polls will be known early, and results will come in fairly quickly on Saturday afternoon I'd say. My sister in law is involved in the count process (an assitant county registrar or something) in one of the rural constituencies and she says couting there should be finished by mid-late afternoon.

    How do they do the count- by hand or with machines?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Magenta wrote: »
    How do they do the count- by hand or with machines?

    Hand.


    And eyes.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Gintonious wrote: »
    This is the one thing I wish I was back in Ireland for.

    I hope my vote won't be needed and Yes is put through. C'mon people, do the right thing.

    I've felt the same but i'm confident the Irish people will make the right call.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Hand.


    And eyes.

    I heard Cheesoid counts them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    I can't wait for the blasphemy referendum. :pac:

    Literally cannot fcuking wait for that. If the god botherers here think I'm a pain on SSM wait for me to get stuck into that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    K4t wrote: »
    Reported.


    Reported.
    Reported.

    All reported for bullying.

    Ah, would you stop with that. This is AH and feelings run high


    I know.....'Reported'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭WoolyJumper


    iDave wrote: »
    Literally cannot fcuking wait for that. If the god botherers here think I'm a pain on SSM wait for me to get stuck into that.

    Looking forward to David claiming he is entitled to his opinions without being bullied and shouted down, while also trying keep laws in the constitution that arguably restrict free speech.

    Better burn those "don't be silenced" posters


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    Looking forward to David claiming he is entitled to his opinions without being bullied and shouted down, while also trying keep laws in the constitution that arguably restrict free speech.

    Better burn those "don't be silenced" posters

    Vote no or someone could tell our children that god isnt real.

    That referendum is going to be hilarious.


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


    K4t wrote: »
    Reported.

    Reported.

    Reported.

    All reported for bullying.

    :D Get a grip.

    You even thanked my post!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Vote no or someone could tell our children that god isnt real.

    That referendum is going to be hilarious.

    It'll be great craic altogether
    Ian O'Doherty trolling Iona for about 2 months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    :D Get a grip.

    You even thanked my post!

    Reported.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    lazygal wrote: »
    Reported.

    Reported that you reported over a reporting incident


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


    Guys stop triggering me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭CaveCanem


    Em only surrogacy vouchers are acceptable actually. Soz.

    Right away or wait until the new season catalogue comes out?


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


    CaveCanem wrote: »
    Right away or wait until the new season catalogue comes out?

    Em... I'm a gay man. I don't do catalogue shopping.

    Only purely Bespoke Babies 4 me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭mohawk


    lazygal wrote: »
    Yes, I expect my children to be taught what marriage in Ireland involves. I've no issue with that whatsoever. The images of a man being tortured to death around the place and the 2.5 hours of religious woo I could do without.

    But if we indoctrinate the children by teaching them about two women or two men getting married then they will ALL grow up and get gay married and society will collapse!!




    Or something like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭lizzyman


    Em... I'm a gay man. I don't do catalogue shopping.

    Only purely Bespoke Babies 4 me.

    Wait, you mean you don't wait till the Iona institute is looking the other way then steal them from your local maternity ward?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,881 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    LordSutch wrote: »
    I guess the logical progression will be that same sex marriage will taught in schools.

    New school books depicting a man and a man getting married/ A woman and a woman getting married too, but if that's what the Irish people waant, and if thats what the Irish people vote for, then that's what will happen, irrespective of the 30 or 40% of Irish people who may vote NO.

    I had religious relationship education in school. It was all about how god is the third person in the relationship.

    You know, I don't expect to see a catholic school teach that homosexuality is right, but that whole tolerance thing that jesus loved should be a big focus.


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


    Em... I'm a gay man
    It's gotten bad that as soon as I saw "I'm a gay man", I thought "Ugh, it's Paddy Manning again".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,434 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Grayson wrote: »
    I had religious relationship education in school. It was all about how god is the third person in the relationship.

    You know, I don't expect to see a catholic school teach that homosexuality is right, but that whole tolerance thing that jesus loved should be a big focus.

    Threesomes are ok once god is the third?

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,589 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Anyone going to try predict the percentages for tomorrow?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


    ixoy wrote: »
    It's gotten bad that as soon as I saw "I'm a gay man", I thought "Ugh, it's Paddy Manning again".

    I love that man.

    Paddy Manning: *Incoherent rant* *btw im gay so u hav 2 respect me guys* *continues rambling*
    Una Mullaly: It's fine if you don't want to get married Paddy but that shouldn't stop others who do
    Paddy Manning: HOW DO YOU KNOW I DON'T WANT TO GET MARRIED YOU DON'T KNOW ME HOW DARE YOU

    Eh Paddy if you're campaigning against your right to marriage, it's a safe bet you don't plan on marrying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭Anita Blow


    Anyone going to try predict the percentages for tomorrow?

    Don't think it'll be as low as 50.5% yes but don't think it'll be as high as 57% either. I'm thinking 53-54% Yes max.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭Beta Canis Majoris


    Anyone going to try predict the percentages for tomorrow?

    62% yes/38% no


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Ah Paddy Manning, the gay man who wants to deny his fellow gays marriage and also tell straight people how to conduct their marriages.


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


    Vote no or someone could tell our children that god isnt real.

    That referendum is going to be hilarious.

    I think it boils down to this referendum simply being the latest in a line of social shifts that demonstrate just how wrong a dogmatic catholic/christian/non-secular state is.
    Since the foundation of the state it's people have been expected to adhere to the principles of Catholic teaching, and it's ability to speak with authority on so many things.
    But, since the 80's and the emergence of AIDS, a disease that forced sex out of the shadows and into the discussions taking place in many a household as well as on the media, we have seen the authority of the church become more and more tenuous, as the people find that, in fact, the church and the christian way of living your life does not have all the answers, and is frequently giving direction simply to focus the communities "faith", with divergent points of view instead becoming dangerous and so persecuted, something to fear and eradicate.
    Treatment of Jews in Ireland link, treatment of women link, treatment of unmarried mothers link, treatment of people seeking contraception link, treatment of homosexuals in Ireland link, so many examples of this state getting it wrong, under the moral guidance of a Christian church.
    So, as we approach yet another event that may well demonstrate the uselessness of the Christian world view we should understand why Christians and Catholics in particular are so afraid.
    They fear it's all been a waste of time.
    They fear that they are on the wrong side of history.
    They care not about the souls of the gay population, a group surely damned for heinous acts they are judged to carry out, no they are more fearful about their own selves, that something they cannot understand is out there and is contrary to their world view, a thing that can be just as beautiful as any other expression of love, and they fundamentally hate it.
    I just don't believe many Christians who preface their statement with "I don't hate gays but....", they do, it's all over their commentary, they refer to being gay as "a choice", " a lifestyle", as if anyone would choose to endure the misery heaped upon them by such fools?

    Roll on tomorrow morning, and roll on a YES in the end, and lets consign these fear mongers a little more to history.




    Sorry about the rant :(


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


    iDave wrote: »
    Ah Paddy Manning, the gay man who wants to deny his fellow gays marriage and also tell straight people how to conduct their marriages.

    He should become a priest so he should ;)


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