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

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  • #7652
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    osarusan wrote: »
    Are you not happy to be spouse 1 or 2?

    I want to be spouse 1!


  • #7653
    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    What if 2 spouse1s want to get married? Better create a new form of marriage.


  • #7654
    lizzyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭lizzyman


    aloyisious wrote: »
    Hows-about something like in the referendum wording “Marriage in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex.”



  • #7655
    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    Kiwi in IE wrote: »
    How do other countries where marriage is equal manage? Ireland is not the first country to implement this you know! Are these problems you predict evident in the UK, Netherlands, France, Spain, Canada etc, etc...?

    The no side dont like to look at these countries, they havent descended into mad max kind of places.


  • #7656
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Kiwi in IE wrote: »
    I want to be spouse 1!

    Not always choose your battles wisely ;)


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  • #7657
    dubscottie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 854 ✭✭✭dubscottie


    Had my next door neighbor came to me today and tell me she was voting yes..

    She was away in the UK and came back early, Just to vote.

    I hope more of the older generation think the same!!


  • #7658
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    I go off for a few hours to distribute leaflets and I come back to pages of claims of voter fraud.

    This makes me happy - the No side are claiming it's been rigged and we haven't even started voting yet so I assume if they win the Yes side can also claim it's voter fraud and insist we do it again.


    Letter slots at the bottom of doors are a *$&^£&£* - can have a referendum to outlaw those please? Me back is broken.


  • #7659
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    Loving the FB sharing notification on the referendum.


  • #7660
    gk5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 886 ✭✭✭gk5000


    KeithWoodshead wrote: »
    yack yack yack

    anyway, in a few hours the voices of spineless, bigoted idiots like yourself will be set further back to the stone age to where they belong

    See you on the other side folks , vote yes!
    Well that just endears me to your cause.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057433247

    Vote NO to send this back to the drawing board.....

    or don't whinge to me when you are picking the lawyers out of your marriage and my family for the next 30 years.


  • #7661
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    I go off for a few hours to distribute leaflets and I come back to pages of claims of voter fraud.

    This makes me happy - the No side are claiming it's been rigged and we haven't even started voting yet so I assume if they win the Yes side can also claim it's voter fraud and insist we do it again.


    Letter slots at the bottom of doors are a *$&^£&£* - can have a referendum to outlaw those please? Me back is broken.

    I thought you weren't supposed to campaign yesterday...


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  • #7662
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    Not a NSA agent wrote: »
    The no side dont like to look at these countries, they havent descended into mad max kind of places.

    The no side are pretending these countries don't exist because reality does not support their scaremongering.


  • #7663
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    Not a NSA agent wrote: »
    What if 2 spouse1s want to get married? Better create a new form of marriage.

    Will the definition of sexual intercourse between spouse 1 and spouse 1, spouse 2 and spouse 2, and spouse 1 and spouse 2 be the same? Because if not, this will change the definition of consummation. How will we know if the marriage has been consummated? This will have a knock on affect on the concept of annulment! Vote No!


  • #7664
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    c_man wrote: »
    I thought you weren't supposed to campaign yesterday...

    So did the numpty who clicked his fingers at me, pointed at his feet and demanded I come over here now...

    When I eventually wandered in his general direction - only because that was the direction I was going in anyway - I think my use of the word Moratorium in it's proper context sacred him tbh - he then tried to tell me distributing leaflets is a form of broadcasting.... riiiight....

    Nope- no ban on campaigning just a ban on broadcasting any campaign related stuff.


    Over 1,000 people out in Cork city and suburbs tonight distributing Yes leaflets. :)


  • #7665
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    c_man wrote: »
    I thought you weren't supposed to campaign yesterday...
    No, I was too, you can, just no broadcasting.


  • #7666
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Whilst out canvassing last night (Thurs) for the Yes side, I met this young woman on her doorstep who'd lost her mother last week. The woman has a young daughter, six years of age. Monday she got an Iona leaflet in the postbox about voting NO, that every child need's a mother, so she was upset. She rang Iona, told them of her situation & how upsetting the leaflet was (please don't contact me again). The next day, another Iona leaflet in the box, and her daughter got to it first, read it & asked "what's this about, Mum". Mum phoned Iona again and spoke to lady there. The response she got was "well, if your daughter can read at six years of age, she can understand what the message means", CLICK, phone put down at Iona end, conversation over, mom still with phone in hand. She knew then it was waste of time speaking to Iona. I'm not sure what way her vote might have been if she hadn't lost her mum & got the leaflets but she told me the response from the Iona woman made her decide to vote YES, due to it's lack of compassion.

    Ditto on the moratorium, one person politely asked me if it was OK for me to be canvassing, so I told him that the moratorium only applied to Radio and TV communication mention, discussion, canvass or advertising of an issue.


  • #7667
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Right so. Didn't know that.


  • #7668
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    Wow I have just read that Lucinda Creighton is going to vote yes. She was previously very very anti gay marriage. She has publicly stated she will be voting YES! If she can change anyone.

    Fat Christy our positive vibes are working keep em coming folks!


  • #7669
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    aloyisious wrote: »
    While out canvassing last night (Thurs) for the Yes side, I met this young woman on her doorstep who'd lost her mother last week. The woman has a young daughter, six years of age. Monday she got an Iona leaflet in the postbox about voting NO, that every child need's a mother, so she was upset. She rang Iona, told them of her situation & how upsetting the leaflet was (please don't contact me again). The next day, another Iona leaflet in the box, and her daughter got to it first, read it & asked "what's this about, Mum". Mum phoned Iona again and spoke to lady there. The response she got was "well, if your daughter can read at six years of age, she can understand what the message means", CLICK, phone put down at Iona end, conversation over, mom still with phone in hand. She knew then it was waste of time speaking to Iona. I'm not sure what way her vote might have been if she hadn't lost her mum & got the leaflets but she told me the response from the Iona woman made her decide to vote YES, due to it's lack of compassion.

    What a b*tch.

    Genuinely when I say their posters/leaflets I saw how they were willing to throw anyone under a bus so they could get their way. It's disgusting and most hurtful to those not affected by the referendum


  • #7670
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    silverfeather wrote: »
    Wow I have just read that Lucinda Creighton is going to vote yes. She was previously very very anti gay marriage. She has publicly stated she will be voting YES! If she can change anyone.

    Fat Christy our positive vibes are working keep em coming folks!

    Or she got the polling figures for Dub SE...


  • #7671
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,887 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    One size doesnt fit all knock on effects JESUS CHRIST WHAT WILL THE WORDING BE ON THE MARRIAGE FORMS??????


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  • #7672
    WoolyJumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭WoolyJumper


    This is like that moment in an exam where you have done everything you can, so you spend the last 20 mins furiously calculating the worst case scenario to see if you still managed to scrape a pass.

    I don't want to get my hopes up too much but i'm feeling confident :o


  • #7673
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Kiwi in IE wrote: »
    I want to be spouse 1!

    My wife is spouse 1, I know that for sure.
    I dont think there is a spouse 2, I may be spouse Z a lot of the time....
    I am.described as a feckin eejit a good deal of the time also, for clarification purposes.


  • #7674
    podgemonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭podgemonster


    Boom 22nd is here! Looking forward to voting in the morning and voting Yes!


  • #7675
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    aloyisious wrote: »
    While out canvassing last night (Thurs) for the Yes side, I met this young woman on her doorstep who'd lost her mother last week. The woman has a young daughter, six years of age. Monday she got an Iona leaflet in the postbox about voting NO, that every child need's a mother, so she was upset. She rang Iona, told them of her situation & how upsetting the leaflet was (please don't contact me again). The next day, another Iona leaflet in the box, and her daughter got to it first, read it & asked "what's this about, Mum". Mum phoned Iona again and spoke to lady there. The response she got was "well, if your daughter can read at six years of age, she can understand what the message means", CLICK, phone put down at Iona end, conversation over, mom still with phone in hand. She knew then it was waste of time speaking to Iona. I'm not sure what way her vote might have been if she hadn't lost her mum & got the leaflets but she told me the response from the Iona woman made her decide to vote YES, due to it's lack of compassion.


    :rolleyes: I could read before my first birthday... It doesn't mean I understood the message in any logically way. Completely ridiculous and shows how Iona don't actually give a damn about anyone.


  • #7676
    Kiwi in IE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,063 ✭✭✭Kiwi in IE


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    My wife is spouse 1, I know that for sure.
    I dont think there is a spouse 2, I may be spouse Z a lot of the time....
    I am.described as a feckin eejit a good deal of the time also, for clarification purposes.

    For fecks sake CiDeRmAn, the heads of the no voters in here tonight are already spinning at the thought of couples having to refer to each other as spouse 1 and spouse 2, instead of husband and wife, now you are muddying the water by suggesting a spouse Z? They might explode now!




    (Dreadful if they exploded before the polling booths open wouldn't it be?)


  • #7677
    bajer101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,178 ✭✭✭bajer101


    silverfeather wrote: »
    Wow I have just read that Lucinda Creighton is going to vote yes. She was previously very very anti gay marriage. She has publicly stated she will be voting YES! If she can change anyone.

    Fat Christy our positive vibes are working keep em coming folks!

    "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader." - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin


  • #7678
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Kiwi in IE wrote: »
    For fecks sake CiDeRmAn, the heads of the no voters in here tonight are already spinning at the thought of couples having to refer to each other as spouse 1 and spouse 2, instead of husband and wife, now you are muddying the water by suggesting a spouse Z? They might explode now!




    (Dreadful if they exploded before the polling booths open wouldn't it be?)

    There are also whole weeks when I am described as things that the filters here won't allow me to post....
    Just as well really.

    Perhaps they get all of their SSM information from rewatching I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry?
    Better to watch The Birdcage


  • #7679
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Here in Wicklow, we were sure we had four TD's voting yes over five weeks ago, with one definite NO, Billy Timmons, so much that he was written off. Around a month ago, we got word that he was not against the issue of gay marriage, only abortion. I'm still waiting to see which way he swing's. He's deputy head of the Renua party.


  • #7680
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I won't be spouse 1 or 2!!!

    I'll be Mrs Dr Leo Varadkar TD

    :-P


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  • #7681
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,229 ✭✭✭robman60


    So the day has finally come and this thread has reached page 522, would be far cooler if we used American date system!

    Looking forward to voting in a referendum for the first time in my life. I've only voted in Europeans and council elections thus far!

    Remember to use your hard won democratic right either way people! Happy voting!


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