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Gay cousins should be allowed to marry

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  • #2
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,919 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Why isn't he arguing for gay brothers (or sisters) then? Same argument from his side.


  • #3
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    There are plenty of people to choose from to fall in love with, why cousins?

    Although would make the guest list at the wedding very handy!!


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,385 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    How often are two cousins going to be gay and want to marry?


  • #5
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Senator Norris says gay cousins should be allowed to marry. It doesn't have the genetic implications, but with people self identifying their gender, a female and male cousin could marry each other if they both identify as the same sex.

    It's a slippery slope

    http://www.thejournal.ie/david-norris-gay-cousins-2400629-Oct2015/


  • #6
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    kneemos wrote: »
    How often are two cousins going to be gay and want to marry?

    Ever been to Dundalk?


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  • #7
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    Senator Norris says gay cousins should be allowed to marry. It doesn't have the genetic implications, but with people self identifying their gender, a female and male cousin could marry each other if they both identify as the same sex.

    It's a slippery slope

    http://www.thejournal.ie/david-norris-gay-cousins-2400629-Oct2015/
    Hate to break it to you, but female and male cousins can already marry.

    Don't see the issue here tbh.


  • #8
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    Senator Norris says gay cousins should be allowed to marry. It doesn't have the genetic implications, but with people self identifying their gender, a female and male cousin could marry each other if they both identify as the same sex.

    It's a slippery slope

    http://www.thejournal.ie/david-norris-gay-cousins-2400629-Oct2015/

    What's the significance of their gender?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #9
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    Hitchens wrote: »
    .......says David Norris

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/david-norris-says-gay-cousins-should-be-allowed-to-marry-1.2399232

    why are they not allowed, what difference would it make? .....strange!

    How is it strange ? It's still incest


  • #10
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    How is it strange ? It's still incest

    I thought that is direct siblings?


  • #11
    Hitchens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,138 ✭✭✭Hitchens


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    How is it strange ? It's still incest
    that's an interesting observation


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  • #12
    The_Valeyard
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    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    How is it strange ? It's still incest

    As a matter of interest, have you been following the tv show Dominion?


  • #13
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    seamus wrote: »
    Hate to break it to you, but female and male cousins can already marry.

    Don't see the issue here tbh.

    Sh11t!!

    Is this what norris is being paid for then, going about canvassing to legalise things that are already legal?


    How much is he on?


  • #14
    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    Saipanne wrote: »
    I thought that is direct siblings?

    Still to close imo


  • #15
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Mod: Two threads merged

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #16
    Dr.Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 465 ✭✭Dr.Internet


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    What's the significance of their gender?

    oh noes, do you perceive me as having used an incorrect term?

    Call the social justice police


  • #17
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    All 10 of them, sure let them at it.

    What harm to the rest of us, or is someone going to pronounce that the fabric of society is going to be torn down and replaced with godless mayhem because some larrup is banging the life out of his/her cousin.

    Sure while there's no kids involved, let them go forth and wire into each other.

    Ps..you'd be worried if you were his cousin ! (Joke, just a joke!)


  • #18
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Mod: Two threads merged

    In holy matrimony.


  • #19
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    If you can't show why a practice would affect anyone else's life (apart from hurting their poor ickle feelings) then you really need to ask yourself why you give a ****.

    If the answer that you come up with is that you're a nosy ****, you're probably correct.


  • #20
    That_Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    "I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins!"


  • #21
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    That_Guy wrote: »
    "I tell you, I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins!"

    Because they're so attractive. I... I thought that was the whole point of this journey.


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  • #22
    seamus
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    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    Sh11t!!

    Is this what norris is being paid for then, going about canvassing to legalise things that are already legal?


    How much is he on?
    Ah, I see what's going on. Some numpty has taken this opportunity to place a ban on cousins marrying even though genetically it's not a problem.

    Norris is arguing that this is pointless in the context of gay marriage. I agree on logic, but on principle it makes a mockery of the idea of marriage equality. What's good for the goose needs to be good for the gander and I see no reason why special exemptions need to exist for any sexuality.

    In any case there will be other...um...interest groups who will be very opposed to a ban on cousins marrying, so I expect this to be removed from the bill.


  • #23
    Rhyme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    In holy matrimony.

    If you created your account in 2012 with that username for this moment, it was worth the wait.


  • #24
    Kev_2012
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    ...


  • #25
    mikeym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,991 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Lets have another Referendum :D


  • #26
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Mod: Two threads merged

    They warned us about this, first men marrying men, now threads. Children should not be raised by 2 threads from the same forum. It's unnatural.


  • #27
    Paramite Pie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    In holy matrimony.

    Well the thread topics are related....:pac:


  • #28
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Thought you had to get special permission off the Pope to marry your cousin?? :o:pac:


  • #29
    Massimo Cassagrande
    Closed Accounts Posts: 626 ✭✭✭Massimo Cassagrande


    I've no idea who Gay Cousins is, but fair fecks to him and who is anyone to say the chap can't marry?. Sure they let Gay Byrne get hitched without so much as a whisper of dissent and proper order too.


  • #30
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Dr.Internet wrote: »
    oh noes, do you perceive me as having used an incorrect term?

    Call the social justice police

    No, i perveived you as hsving a reason, hence the question.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #31
    NachoBusiness
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzae_SqbmDE


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