Marriage Equality Ireland

Swan Red · May 20, 2015

Friday 22nd May has the opportunity to be a watershed moment in Irish history. Cameron to his credit got this on the books in the UK but in Ireland it's a constitutional issue and has to go to referendum.

It has all party support, though there are a number of dissenters within FG/FF, and the yes campaign has the support of all the relevant children's charities, it's not a referendum about children's rights despite the No campaign's attempts to portray it as such but even there they're being corrected by the referendum authority.

In part I don't think it should be the subject of a referendum, I understand why it has to be but we shouldn't be in a position where a discriminated against minority seeks permission from the majority to not be discriminated against. It's also a referendum that is specifically about how we treat a minority of people in the state, but it looks like it's winning and what's heartening is that the working class areas are much stronger Yes voters than middle class suburbs. I don't know why this surprises me but it does.

In any case Ireland gets the chance to let the rest of the world where it's at, it's the only state putting this to the people and it's the referendum that has me regretting not applying for citizenship because I can't vote.

Sir Tokyo Sexwale · May 20, 2015

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