Posted on 05/22/2015 5:10:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Voters determined to have their voice heard on gay marriage turned out in strength Friday for Ireland’s most hard-fought referendum in decades, a contest that pitted the liberal forces of social change against the nation’s conservative Catholic foundation.
Polls closed at 10 p.m. after 15 hours of voting that featured long-distance trips by Irish citizens, including thousands of emigrants who returned by aircraft or ferry to take part in the world’s first national vote on gay marriage.
Backers of gay marriage had hoped for high turnout, reflecting strong participation by young and first-time voters. Electoral officials said this appeared to have happened, particularly in Ireland’s major urban centers of Dublin and Cork, where many arriving at polling stations declared it was their first time voting.
Polling station officials said Ireland could top 60 percent turnout nationally for the first time since the country narrowly voted to legalize divorce in 1995, but was unlikely to reach the 68 percent achieved when the Irish voted to ease access to foreign abortions in 1992. Results will be announced Saturday. …
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Great! All our sexual deviants can settle in Ireland, a win/win for everyone.
You can drive all the snakes away but they won’t stay gone.
I envision a faggot on an Irish Rugby team....(it wouldnt be pretty—but I am willing to sell tickets)
Homo fatigue™
Looks like they’re gonna be wanting a Sodom and Gomorrah apology from God too.
Or maybe they’re just returning to their home.
Jesus above quote doesn't include same union perversion defined as marriage.
It sure ain’t the same Ireland I spent my childhood in.
Well, St Patrick, don’t feel too bad, Christianity had a good run in Ireland for a millenium and a half. Now the apostates are in charge, the snakes can go back now.
Oh, great, Michael Fitzpatrick can marry Patrick Fitzmichael
Jews believe G-d created a soul mate, bashert, so I guess homosexuals won’t ever find their soul mates.
Homosexuals seek their stool mate.
thousands flew home to vote? How did the reporter know this?
The dirty little secret is that this is American money pushing the vote, just like American money is pressuring Africa and Asia to change their laws on gay marriage, legalize homosexuality, and abort their children.
Any limitation on the exercise of the rights and freedoms recognized by this Charter must be provided for by law and respect the essence of those rights and freedoms. Subject to the principle of proportionality, limitations may be made only if they are necessary and genuinely meet objectives of general interest recognized by the Union or the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others. …Very Soviet-sounding.
Why would they do that? They're doing fine right here. And in pretty much every other Western country.
In fact, opposition to homosexuality seems at this point to exist only in Muslim Arabia, sub-Saharan Africa and Russia.
Disappointing. The Iona Institute has conceded already.
I’m holding Obama and the US partially responsible for exporting/advertising/pushing this nonsense.
It looks like a 2-1 margin for the yes vote.
No; they don’t oppose homosexuality there either, only the way it is shown in society.
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