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riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
Thu May 21, 2015, 11:19 PM May 2015

Vote in Ireland Could Complete a Rapid Shift on Gay Marriage

Source: New York Times

DUBLIN — In 1993, Ireland was among the last countries in the Western World to decriminalize homosexuality. Some 22 years later, it could become the first to legalize same-sex marriages by popular vote.

With a rapidity that has astonished even proponents, Ireland, a country that rescinded its Victorian-era law governing homosexuality — the same legislation England used in 1895 to imprison Oscar Wilde — only after it had been dragged before the European Court of Human Rights, will go to the polls on Friday to decide on gay marriage rights.

Ireland becomes the latest place — though perhaps a surprising one — to take up the issue, in a global swing that in just the past few years has seen states, countries and people seriously considering expanding marriage to include gays.

Social, religious, political and legal mores have been falling by the wayside, and laws are being changed through legislatures, courts and, in some local cases, popular vote.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/22/world/europe/vote-in-ireland-could-complete-a-rapid-shift-on-gay-marriage.html?_r=0



Despite Ireland's notoriously dismal record on abortion and divorce, it may finally lead the way on gay marriage!



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Vote in Ireland Could Complete a Rapid Shift on Gay Marriage (Original Post) riderinthestorm May 2015 OP
Yay! shenmue May 2015 #1
AM kick! riderinthestorm May 2015 #2
Early signs looking good peasambo May 2015 #3
I know!! Happy dance!! riderinthestorm May 2015 #5
Bill Donohue would have a stroke! HockeyMom May 2015 #4

peasambo

(3 posts)
3. Early signs looking good
Fri May 22, 2015, 12:53 PM
May 2015

Just on way to vote myself, and all indicators point to a Yes win good day for ireland

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