@Buzzoneill tweeted this video from Marriage Equality yesterday but I only got to watching it today.
Very interesting I feel, and an excellent piece of work also. However, I do have an objection. Why does a gay person need to ask permission to marry? This suggests to me that the government believes it is within it’s remit where in fact it is not. Now, understandably there are some legal obstacles from when Mary Coughlan changed the definition of spouse to actually exclude people from being recognised. Yes, the government actually did remove rights form gay and lesbian people.
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I don’t really understand the objection. As I understand it straight people have to ask permission to marry too?
“If there is no impediment to your marriage, the Registrar will issue you with a Marriage Registration Form (MRF) which gives you permission to marry.”
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/birth-family-relationships/getting-married/registration_of_marriage
Yes, but in this case the impediment is that the couple have two penises or vaginas.
ULTIMATE ARGUMENT FOR GAY MARRIAGE… CAPS LOCK
I’ve come across many people (formally my grandparents who changed their minds after). Straight people who hate each other can get but married, but gay people who love each other can’t. I that right? In which the majority of rational people say “no”. Argument closed
Marriage was already defined as between a biological man and a biological woman by the courts before Coughlan made that move so technically, it’s not just her discriminating as you’d say.
Not that she’s not a pillock of course.