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Equality of marriage and love

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    #62
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,204 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Some ought to ask Graham Linehan if it's time for a new line of t-shirts. Feckin' Irish! They invented gayness!

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #63
    joseph brand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    Going Strong wrote: »
    Just back from a visit to my parents.

    My mother isn't a happy bunny at all.

    "Well, *we* fecking lost."

    That's democracy for you.

    "Hmph, it was all the voters who came back home to vote Yes that won it."

    I explain how, if that's the case, you'd be able to walk across the Irish sea without getting your feet wet so many ferries would be needed.

    "Hah! Typical you and your smart-@rsed answers! You voted Yes didn't you?"

    Of course (Points at Irish Examiner next to her with photos of happy people celebrating) Isn't it grand to give some joy and happiness to people and it didn't cost me anything more than some shoe leather?

    (Mutters something about how it'll all end in tears and changes the subject).

    That's me out of the will then and no mistake. Voting "Yes" is tantamount to coming out as gay in her eyes.


    I didn't bother visiting my parents this weekend. There's no way that I would have kept quiet about voting Yes, how happy I am that LGBT's are finally treated as equals, and what wake up call it has been for the church and its followers.

    I've already had a few heated arguments with my staunch catholic parents, and was told that I had no soul. The word 'liberal' is highly offensive to my mam, but she throws it at me. I can handle a good debate fine, but my folks get red-faced with anger and I sometimes get the feeling that they want to chase me out the door. Maybe they hold back because I gave them grandchildren, I'm not sure.

    Anyway, I'll rub their faces in it next weekend. Sunday afternoon when I'm suffering from a late night session. :)


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    #64
    Going Strong
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭Going Strong


    My mother voted No out of homophobia and spite. Just in case any apologists claiming that nobody on the anti side has anything against The Gays are looking in.


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    #65
    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭smokingman


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Brilliant! I guess the other couple of hundred atheists out there must be in stitches!

    How's those lemons after Saturday Dan?


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    #66
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    smokingman wrote: »
    How's those lemons after Saturday Dan?

    Dan doesn't suck, just blows.


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    #67
    volchitsa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Brilliant! I guess the other couple of hundred atheists out there must be in stitches!

    It makes me feel nauseous, tbh - but it's not the dark humour I find sickening, it's the fact that it's based on truth. You'd prefer to pretend it's grand that a prophet looked up to by millions as the founder of their religion married a six year old and had sex with her at 9, would you? Let's not mention anything that might upset those nice people of faith, eh?


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    #68
    Alexis Sanchez
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭Alexis Sanchez


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Wow! That's classy. You are a credit to all athesits.

    Making fun of a paedophile lacks class?


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    #69
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    smokingman wrote: »
    How's those lemons after Saturday Dan?

    Well done to the yes side but TBH apart from a lot of the OLE OLE OLE OLE post referendum stufff the concerns of those who gave the matter some serious thought are still there on Sunday.


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    #70
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Made with new improved surrogacy stork.


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    #71
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,405 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Wow! That's classy. You are a credit to all athesits.

    Comes into a thread where religion gets mocked to complain about posters mocking religion :confused:


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    #72
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Comes into a thread where religion gets mocked to complain about posters mocking religion :confused:

    Not complaining, just making an observation.


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    #73
    Alexis Sanchez
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭Alexis Sanchez


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Not complaining, just making an observation.

    In your opinion, why does the picture lack class?


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    #74
    smokingman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭smokingman


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Well done to the yes side but TBH apart from a lot of the OLE OLE OLE OLE post referendum stufff the concerns of those who gave the matter some serious thought are still there on Sunday.

    The concerns of those who gave it serious thought won Dan. Those who accepted blind dogma lost.


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    #75
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    smokingman wrote: »
    The concerns of those who gave it serious thought won Dan. Those who accepted blind dogma lost.

    My vote had zero to do with dogma. And what is really sickening is watching all these politicians being best buddies with the gay community when only 20 odd years ago they regarded them as criminals.I have always regarded gay people as absolutely equal and in fact most of them that I know would be dead sound.


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    #76
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    joseph brand wrote: »
    I've already had a few heated arguments with my staunch catholic parents, and was told that I had no soul.
    Going Strong wrote: »
    My mother voted No out of homophobia and spite.
    Same for Popette who raved at me this morning by phone, out of the blue, thusly:
    Popette wrote:
    "It's your generation and your kid's generation who will pay the terrible price for this." "Total moral collapse by the country having sold out to the EU and other totalitarians" "You have no moral sense yourself, the government are moral cowards and the gays and lesbians are disgusting" "you probably voted yes, like your brothers and sisters" "Do you know that they'll be letting lesbians into the classroom to tell your child about dildos? Dildos!"
    But the "yes" side was the aggressive side.


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    #77
    lazygal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    When will my children be gay adopted, that's what I want to know? They were wrecking my head on a few occasions over the weekend.


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    #78
    Shrap
    Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    robindch wrote: »
    But the "yes" side was the aggressive side.
    "Do you know that they'll be letting lesbians into the classroom to tell your child about dildos? Dildos!"

    Funny how those who feel the most puritanical seem to be more prurient than most people. My mother, born and raised to be very protestant about her sexuality, would never let the word "dildo" pass her lips (no pun intended ;) ), not even when I called my fine big cockerel Dildo.

    I used to consider myself kind of hard done by with her disapproval of my...um...flamboyance, but considering she manages to see people as human beings and nearly all her best friends are gay, she's a bit of a heroine to me these days for the way she's risen above her roots. All of you who have such unappealing relatives have my sincere sympathy. :(


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    #79
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,948 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    My vote had zero to do with dogma. And what is really sickening is watching all these politicians being best buddies with the gay community when only 20 odd years ago they regarded them as criminals.I have always regarded gay people as absolutely equal and in fact most of them that I know would be dead sound.


    Seeing politicians move from a ridiculous position to an eminently sensible position is 'sickening to watch'? Whah?


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    #80
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users Posts: 8,103 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    Seeing politicians move from a ridiculous position to an eminently sensible position is 'sickening to waltch'? Whah?

    The change of attitude is to be welcomed it's the hypocrisy thats sickening.


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    #81
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    I have always regarded gay people as absolutely equal...
    ...where "absolutely" means "mostly", apparently.


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    #82
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    lazygal wrote: »
    When will my children be gay adopted, that's what I want to know? They were wrecking my head on a few occasions over the weekend.

    Yeah... about that....

    We don't want them.


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    #83
    lazygal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Yeah... about that....

    We don't want them.
    :eek:

    That was why I voted yes.


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    #84
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Mod: Regarding the chatter concerning the alleged shifting of our politicians - chilllllllllllax folks - it's a nice day out and I'd hate to have to reach into the drawer near my desk for my pack of yellow + red cards.

    Thanking youze.


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    #85
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    robindch wrote: »
    Same for Popette who raved at me this morning by phone, out of the blue, thusly:But the "yes" side was the aggressive side.

    That's brilliant.
    Dildos!


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    #86
    Vivisectus
    Registered Users Posts: 807 ✭✭✭Vivisectus


    On a completely off-topic note, we need a new word for those. Where did that word come from anyway?

    In my opinion, no sexual aid should sound like the name for one of the Baggins family from the Hobbit. It is the most unerotic name imaginable.


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    #87
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    lazygal wrote: »
    :eek:

    That was why I voted yes.

    we know.



    hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha


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    #88
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Vivisectus wrote: »
    [...] no sexual aid should sound like the name for one of the Baggins family from the Hobbit [...]
    You've read 'Bored of the Rings'?

    http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings
    http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/feb/08/tolkien-bored-of-the-rings


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    #89
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,109 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Vivisectus wrote: »
    On a completely off-topic note, we need a new word for those. Where did that word come from anyway?

    In my opinion, no sexual aid should sound like the name for one of the Baggins family from the Hobbit. It is the most unerotic name imaginable.

    I was on a computer course in St John's many years ago and the instructor, whose name was Buffy :D, lived in a town called Dildo. :D:D


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    #90
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Legislation on school and hospital staff to be amended to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/legislation-on-school-and-hospital-staff-to-be-amended-1.2224454


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    #91
    freyners
    Registered Users Posts: 4,298 ✭✭✭freyners


    robindch wrote: »
    Legislation on school and hospital staff to be amended to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/legislation-on-school-and-hospital-staff-to-be-amended-1.2224454

    I'm not following the article at all when it says this
    Irish Times wrote:
    The legislation would offer protections to staff of religious-run medical and educational institutions who are members of the LGBT community or those who are single parents. At the same time, the Bill would allow institutions to maintain their religious ethos. The amendment is to be drafted in the Department of Justice and Mr Ó Ríordáin hopes to have it passed through the Dáil and Seanad by the end of the year.

    surely this just maintains the status quo if silly ethos reason is left in


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