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Ireland becomes first country to legalise gay marriage by popular vote
The Observer--Guardian ^ | Saturday 23 May 2015 16.29 EDT | The Observer

Posted on 05/23/2015 2:46:45 PM PDT by tflabo

Ireland has voted by a huge majority to legalise same-sex marriage, becoming the first country in the world to do so by popular vote in a move hailed as a social revolution and welcomed around the world.

Some 62% of the Irish Republic’s electorate voted in favour of gay marriage. The result means that a republic once dominated by the Catholic church ignored the instructions of its cardinals and bishops.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; fartyshadesofgreen; gayvote; homosexualagenda; ireland
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Witness the apostasy of the 21st Century before our very eyes.
1 posted on 05/23/2015 2:46:45 PM PDT by tflabo
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Lets send all of ours there... Now they have a real home.


2 posted on 05/23/2015 2:51:52 PM PDT by Safrguns
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I don’t think I want to live on Earth anymore...


3 posted on 05/23/2015 2:52:15 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Ireland is a third world country with the poorest immigrants from Nigeria and Poland flooding it.


4 posted on 05/23/2015 2:52:43 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: tflabo

Which shows that the Philippines is much more Catholic than Ireland.


5 posted on 05/23/2015 2:52:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

Those Poles may be the only real Catholics left in Ireland.


6 posted on 05/23/2015 2:54:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: tflabo

Allowing homosexual priests to run wild and molest in Ireland has led to this. There is no respect for morality anymore.


7 posted on 05/23/2015 2:54:31 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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I agree.After that scandal, the Chucrh has no moral standing to speak on these issues.Thus,a tide of corruption.


8 posted on 05/23/2015 2:56:00 PM PDT by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: tflabo

Let the Gaelic jokes begin in 10...9...8...


9 posted on 05/23/2015 2:56:30 PM PDT by pacobell
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To: tflabo

May God cast his vote.


10 posted on 05/23/2015 2:58:50 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Ireland has long ago abandoned Christianity. A new fascism is upon them now. Everyone will be compelled to celebrate homosexuality and abide by the regulation to come which will embed homosexual into every facet of Irish society and culture.


11 posted on 05/23/2015 3:00:09 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: tflabo

Could the voters have possibly misunderstood the question of whether they believe in faeries?


12 posted on 05/23/2015 3:03:51 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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I am so disgusted by this. When you think of all the missionaries Ireland sent all over the world, and all the martyrs they had, and you see them doing this...well, it’s the New Church of Francis, but it came from the evil actions of the Vatican II clergy and bishops, many of whom BXVI removed or tried to remove. I think one of his reasons for resignation was his failure with the Irish.


13 posted on 05/23/2015 3:10:08 PM PDT by livius
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Won’t someone think of the leprechauns?!


14 posted on 05/23/2015 3:11:05 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Unmutual and Disharmonious)
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To: pacobell

Thousands of gay Irish men are joyously planning weddings to their lesbian girlfriends now.


15 posted on 05/23/2015 3:13:22 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: tflabo

I’m all for same sex marriage, my wife and I have been having the same sex for years.


16 posted on 05/23/2015 3:15:48 PM PDT by ARA
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I’m ashamed of this; Ireland was a bastion of Christianity until allowing divorce in the 1990s. It never legalized abortion (though that will probably happen now), and was swayed by false temptations of prosperity that would arrive with a progressive agenda. I expect their birthrate will probably plummet as well; they can “play American” and buy material goods instead of investing in children, and watch the fate of England become their fate as well.

Like so much of Europe, Ireland’s best & brightest left a long time ago to make something of themselves in places that offered real opportunity. Those that stayed are quite willing to let others make the big decisions for them; they are truly just an insignificant province on the rump of the EU at this point.


17 posted on 05/23/2015 3:16:13 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: tflabo

There must have been voter fraud, maybe coordinated by the NRA in N. Ireland.


18 posted on 05/23/2015 3:17:06 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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Bastards didn’t even choose to fight Hitler.


19 posted on 05/23/2015 3:20:07 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ARA

Now THAT was funny!


20 posted on 05/23/2015 3:20:13 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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