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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Fat Christy


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    Whatever about the Marriage Referendum, I can't believe how many are apparently (based on posts here) voting Yes for the Presidential age one as well.

    I'm voting yes for the both of them in case I end up voting no for the marriage one by accident. :o I don't mind either way regarding the presidential election.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 354 ✭✭MojoRisinnnn


    I know it makes zero difference as to when it happens but I am bleedin' sweatin' to get out of work and vote


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Careful lads.... God is zeroing in...... Earthquake in Kent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    The young lad has just gone down for a snooze, so our family unit will take a trip to the polling station when he wakes up fresh.
    A yes all the way for him.


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


    endacl wrote: »

    Quick, we've been rumbled!


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


    Are you happy with large amounts of people returning to the state to commit electoral fraud?

    No. But in this instance, I'd be happy to let it go. A lot of people voting no, are voting no because of the bull5hit reasons put forward by the no campaign.

    A molehill of (alleged and unproven) electoral fraud, to balance a mountain of (demonstrable) intellectual fraud? I'll let it go, this one time.

    :D


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


    Just realised that if this passes its going to cost me a fortune in wedding presents.... Why couldn't the No side have mentioned the expense, might have won a few stragglers over!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    LoTR wrote: »
    LOL. I just wrote a very long, very detailed analysis on why ultimately the "Yes" vote is not being made for the right reasons.

    It was blocked very promptly.

    Which I suppose makes my point.

    The mods are hard at work for free speech this morning, I see.

    Maybe you didn't hit the 'submit' button?
    Maybe there was some other technical problem?

    I'm surprised that if it was up that no one quoted it straight away. Most posts appear to be hit on immediately.

    But conspiracies are way cooler!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Voted this morning and as I left all the elderly folk were heading in after mass,that'll be the conservative vote taken care of for the day.Not a huge amount of younger folk about though.
    Speaking to some older people during the week,it's split between them.Some are coming from "The bible says no" idea yet more are "live and let live."


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


    Are you happy with large amounts of people returning to the state to commit electoral fraud?
    There's no indication that any fraud is occurring above usual levels.

    If someone left on or after last September and their intention was to come home before next March, then they're entitled to come home and vote.

    Most emigrants are not permanent or even long-term.


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


    endacl wrote: »
    Bollix. Didn't think of that. I'm done with the 'all my friends are getting married' phase.

    I can't afford more weddings. Changing my vote to no. May I congratulate you, by the way, on coming up with the first logical, rational, and coherent reason for anybody to vote no. You should email John Waters.

    :)
    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Just realised that if this passes its going to cost me a fortune in wedding presents.... Why couldn't the No side have mentioned the expense, might have won a few stragglers over!

    It was mentioned.

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Vivisectus


    ciderman wrote:
    Just realised that if this passes its going to cost me a fortune in wedding presents.... Why couldn't the No side have mentioned the expense, might have won a few stragglers over!

    Yeah, but on the plus side, when gay ninjas break into my house to steal my children, that will save a few bob as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Well Facebook says that about 115,000 people have voted so far, with about 40%+ being in the 18-34 age group, sounds like good news to me and its only midday!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    Careful lads.... God is zeroing in...... Earthquake in Kent


    They legalised gay marriage but he was so busy wreaking havoc in the likes of Nepal at the time and only got to the British now.


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


    There is no 'the right to beget children'. The Supreme Court has already said they are not touching surrogacy with a ten foot pole, and that it is up to the Oireachteas to deal with it.

    Until enacted legislation to ban surrogacy is challenged in the supreme court, then they will have to decide whether 'the right to procreate', which absolutely is stated in the constitution, means the state cannot interfere with efforts made to vindicate that right, even if it is not obliged to provide such services itself.

    At the moment, only families have the 'right to beget children' so any law banning surrogacy for unmarried people can be defended with reference to the constitution.

    The fact is that infertile married couples are fairly few and there is no definite trend upwards. It is inherently self-limiting so the state can turn a blind eye.

    If Ireland becomes the only county that has a constitutional right for same sex married couples to regard themselves as families under the constitution and at the same time has its hands tied in regards to surrogacy regulation, then Ireland could become an international destination for same sex couples who want to marry and obtain children through surrogacy. Much like the countries who first recognised same sex marriage became international destinations for couples who wanted to avail of same sex marriage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Just realised that if this passes its going to cost me a fortune in wedding presents.... Why couldn't the No side have mentioned the expense, might have won a few stragglers over!

    It'll cost me nothing because I don't have any gay friends :(


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


    traprunner wrote: »
    It'll cost me nothing because I don't have any gay friends :(
    I'd imagine you've made a few on here.


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


    traprunner wrote: »
    It'll cost me nothing because I don't have any gay friends :(
    I believe part of the "No" manifesto was that you would be automatically assigned a gay partner if this referendum passed. So never fear.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    endacl wrote: »
    I'd imagine you've made a few on here.

    Shhh...I don't like to open my wallet!

    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭traprunner


    seamus wrote: »
    I believe part of the "No" manifesto was that you would be automatically assigned a gay partner if this referendum passed. So never fear.

    Would I get a free baby too freshly taken from a straight couple in the delivery room?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I'll be voting Yes and hoping that it passes but I'm concerned that a lot of people who agree with a Yes vote won't actually bother to go and vote and that a No vote will succeed due to laziness and apathy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Just realised that if this passes its going to cost me a fortune in wedding presents.... Why couldn't the No side have mentioned the expense, might have won a few stragglers over!

    I just got extraordinarily drunk at a couple of weddings and ruined the big day for some couples and now I'm no longer invited to ANY weddings. That's winning in my book.


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


    I'll be voting Yes and hoping that it passes but I'm concerned that a lot of people who agree with a Yes vote won't actually bother to go and vote and that a No vote will succeed due to laziness and apathy.

    That was a worry. Seems to be dissipating though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,863 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Was pissed off at the hipster in front of me on the way in to the voting centre who didn't bother holding the door open. Vote NO to hipsters


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,382 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Does anyone know if an exit poll is being conducted today?


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


    wakka12 wrote: »
    Its new, because I just voted in it there and I had voted in a previous one a while ago.

    Different thread.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,796 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    endacl wrote: »
    If we all keep playing it through though, expensive twaddle. :D

    You don't get how You Tube works. More views would actually give them more money if advertising is monetised. You don't pay per view of your video. Advertisers do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Vivisectus


    Was pissed off at the hipster in front of me on the way in to the voting centre who didn't bother holding the door open. Vote NO to hipsters

    I think we can all get behind that one. Even hipsters, but ironically.


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


    murpho999 wrote: »
    You don't get how You Tube works. More views would actually give them more money if advertising is monetised. You don't pay per view of your video. Advertisers do.

    Whoops. Rewind! Rewind!

    :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Does anyone know if an exit poll is being conducted today?

    As there usually is, I'd presume so.


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