What an amazing weekend to be Irish. I am not, but my DH is, and I have a gay DB, and watching from the other side of the world, it has been a very moving and emotional time. What an incredible country to put this to the people, and for the people to respond in so overwhelmingly a humane manner.
(As an aside: well done to the 'no' campaigners - I think their tactics when a long way towards nailing it for the yeses!).
The results of this referendum have significant implications internationally for the LGB community, and hopefully in other areas of social justice, too.
I wonder if this weakening of one edict of the Catholic Church on a country that was once quite dominated by its presence, might have a knock-on effect on other areas. The right to choose to have an abortion if needed/wanted, and exert full autonomy over one's body being an an obvious example.
What do you guys think? Is there more to hope for than there might once have been? I actually think there might be a teeny tiny glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
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Might the Irish referendum result pave the way for progress in other areas?
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FeijoaSundae · 23/05/2015 21:53
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