Posted on 05/23/2015 2:46:45 PM PDT by tflabo
I wonder what sort of controls were in place to prevent voter fraud?
This sounds a lot like the vote early, vote often scenario.
Well, the homeland of the Scot-Irish is Northern Ireland. And the government of Northern Ireland has rejected gay marriage and says it will not enact it. Hope they can continue.
Maybe it was trying to tie Ireland to the church that eventually lost Ireland in this manner, ironically speaking.
People tend to think that oh, I am by some worldly arrangement a member of a church, I am fine with the Lord. And that isn’t true. Far better that through evangelization they were moved to voluntarily embrace the Lord.
Maybe the best way that Rome could help Ireland now is by clarifying that no, being Ireland does not make it Christian (of Catholic persuasion or otherwise) any more than sitting in a garage makes a person into a car.
You are not alone.
I hope they were independent of this too, but I do not understand the governing details of the place.
I would certainly support a vote in the USA. It won’t get 20% for gay marriage. I am so looking forward to the Supreme court ruling. There is no way the Court will support gay marriage. If they do you will have polygamy and can marry a dog.
I share your horror of events, if I understand you correctly.
This was mostly a symbolic win for libertinism — compared to “real” marriages there will not be enough “gay” marriages to shake a stick at. There never has been, anywhere this “gay marriage” folly has been embraced in modern times.
I suggest looking beneath the surface. What has actually been lost is the role of godly love in the family, which in turn is a result of the weakening of the will to love God. Everything else is a manifestation or a symptom. But I modestly submit that I have pointed to the actual root of the problem.
In some of the more liberal states it could carry. Overall it would be a flop.
or... the snakes return to ireland
Western civilization deserves to lose to ISIS.
“Let the Gaelic jokes begin in 10...9”
Gay lick says it all!
“Hope they can continue.”
Indeed.
Satan has a powerful hand, but God has all the trumps.
Culturally, we’re devolving backwards to pagan times. For some reason, a lot of people embrace that. I don’t know why, because life was brutal back then. I think they think we’re advancing toward some sort of sexually liberated paradise, but there’s no freedom in amorality.
Western civilization had almost everything going for it, and we’re pissing it away.
“There is no way the Court will support gay marriage. If they do you will have polygamy and can marry a dog.”
I hope you’re right, but the guess here is 5-4 for the homos. Roberts and Kennedy will “swing or swish” it.
Gospel belief was the glue. Implementation details of corporate church worship mattered very little compared to beliefs about what God’s mission and intent was outside of the church assembly.
Northern Ireland is an autonomous entity of the UK, and though England, Scotland and Wales enacted it, in Northern Ireland the legislative assembly voted against it and the executive is against it as well, Nor does the Isle of Man nor the Isle of Jersey have it.
The Court has found itself in the unenviable position of presiding over a de facto farce. The farce’s logic is “impeccable.” This is what you get in sufficiently secularized societies.
We’re not feeling the brunt of it yet, but I think it will not be long.
The inanity of attempts to defend against it will be the funniest/saddest spectacle. They will be scapegoat-laden, with measures that impede just about everything BUT the trouble causers.
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