Posted on 01/18/2015 9:22:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
A senior Cabinet minister in Ireland says he’s gay, becoming the first openly homosexual government figure in the history of the traditionally conservative Catholic country.
Sunday’s announcement on state radio by Health Minister Leo Varadkar received widespread praise for its straightforward honesty. Analysts said his decision was likely to be viewed with hindsight as a landmark of social change in a country that, until 1993, outlawed homosexual acts.
Varadkar said he decided to declare his sexuality in advance of government moves this year to advance gay rights. These include plans to legalize gay marriage, permit homosexual men to donate blood, and create greater parenthood rights for gays in surrogate-pregnancy cases. He said May’s constitutional referendum on gay marriage, in particular, got him thinking about going public. …
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When you’re “gay” it’s obligatory that you announce it to the world.
Y-A-W-N. I’m waiting for someone to announce that they’re heterosexual.
Aren’t there a lot of Catholics in Ireland?
From “the ‘love’ that won’t speak,” to the “love” that can’t shut up. Proverbs 27:12: A wise man sees sin and hides himself, but the fool goes on and suffers for it.
Just shocked. Shocked I say. However the only Irishman that matters concerning the homosexual agenda will be the conflicted, dour Supreme Court Justice faux conservative Anthony Kennedy.
Ah sure and begorrah he’s gonna marry himself a leprechaun and live at the end of the rainbow ploughing the pot of fudge......................er, gold.
What a disgusting puke
Nominal ones anyway; down from 88 percent in 2002 to 84 percent in 2011.
I would say that Islam is underreported there, and there are a lot of crypto-Muslims; building that big mosque in Clongriffin in the north Dublin suburbs indicates a stronger presence than official figures acknowledge.
I’m waiting for someone they are Vulcans...but if a space alien landed at the white house or congress... they would say there’s no intelligent life...
Leo Varadkar? Are his people the Tipperary Varadkars or the Donegal Varadkars?
Great! Now Liam Neeson can get himself an Irish boyfriend.
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