Gay marriage referendum.

This Friday Irish voters will vote yes or no on the subject of allowing gay marriage.

People will vote with their heart and they have the right to vote as they chose, thats their democratic right but I was moved and saddened to read about the way some people are behaving.

Una Mullally who is a journalist also happens to be gay and shes urging people to vote yes..
In March this year she found out that she has bowel cancer.

Shes had some vile hate mail to deal with but this just takes the biscuit.

http://www.her.ie/life/maybe-your-ca...te-mail/233621

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People can be so cruel

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How people can be so cruel is beyond me

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Sadly it's a fact of life that there are a proportion of people who spread negativity and even hatred, I think that they shouldn't be given the oxygen of publicity and the less said about them the better.

Instead I hope the papers write about those who want fairness and justice and positive thinking for all.

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I always put this class of hate in a heading Chimpanzee.

Chimps are known to attack anything scary or strange with big sticks beating the offending object to oblivion.

In human terms there is no bigger stick than God and people who use God to batter others are just reverting back to caveman techniques in my opinion.

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It never ceases to amaze me that some people tell others how to live their life. To out pen to paper to do it is awful.

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Sadly, although some are predicting a yes vote I think it may be the opposite. It will depend on the turnout, I think. This is a strange country in some ways because 'religion' has played such a huge part in its constitution and society up until quite recently. I know many people who will blindly vote no out of bigotry, but they are mostly rural people. I don't know which way the city populations are leaning. Don't get me wrong, I love rural Ireland and those who live there (mostly!) but there can be a different mindset on certain issues.
I don't get a vote in the referendum because non-Irish residents cannot vote on anything which directly relates to changes in the Constitution. But I am certainly following it with interest.

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Orangutan ... I love Ireland too.. My family orignate from there and when I eventually got to Dublin I felt as if I was home..
My son and his family now live there and thats why I heard about this as well as the water meter farce.

Im not sure if such a debate has come too quickly for many Irish people. Peace is still a fragile thing there and to be launched into the 21st century with a debate like this might be too far removed from the faith they hold dear.

However I cant help but think you cannot run a country peacefully when you only allow one faith, one belief to override all others.

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Poor woman has enough to cope with out idiots on line attacking her. To the bigger question I always say to any of the Christians I know personally who don't agree with gay marriage imagine if Jesus was alive today - even back then he loved everyone and didn't discriminate that was one of the reasons he was hated so much and feared. So if we want to follow him we have to stop discriminating against anyone.

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Interesting article I have just read:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2...-vote-same-sex

And yes, Cass, I agree with your last statement. I am not anti-religion, nor anti-Catholic, but the Irish Constitution is SO heavily influenced by the Catholic church of old that it can at times make life difficult for some.

Ireland has changed phenomenally in the past 30 years and I think at times the rapid progression was too much. I stayed away during much of that time as I no longer recognised the Ireland I had known. But when I came back I found much of what I had loved was still here. The new generation is so much better informed than their parents and grandparents now in rural Ireland, largely because earlier generations had no choice but to live an insular life which only exposed them to their known environment. Hence, I guess, the rush to change everything almost at once. Interesting times here.