Ireland is having a referendum on marriage equality this week, so Aoife is running a series of guest posts on why LGBTQ people deserve the same respect as others. It seems obvious how the vote should go, but I’ve been living in the US all my life and seen that human decency seems to be a struggle for a lot of people. Let’s all hope for good outcomes everywhere!
Fingers crossed.
If Ireland defies God’s Law then his terrible judgement will be upon them and there will be more earthquakes in Napal. Just you see.
Well, polls give the Yes winning with between 70 to 80% so barring a massive mistake on their past, marriage equality will become legal in Ireland very soon.
I’m not sure I’d trust the polling. Look what happened with the recent U.K. elections….
The pools weren’t that wrong: the latest polls gave the conservative party between 31 and 36% of the vote, they won 36,9%, well within the margin of error, as for the Labor, they gave them 31 to 35% of the vote, with a final share of 30,4% of the ballots: not a scandalous deviation either: it’s the fact that the UK follows a first past the post system which makes even slight deviation potentially translate into huge differences in the number of seats won.
#4, The Other Lance,
Polls seemed fairly close to the final result, though I think they failed to predict the actual details (eg. liberals decimated, ukip receiving a huge chunk of votes but winning no seats). As is so often the case, the bookies were the ones really worth paying attention to, and they gave the conservatives the best odds of getting a majority.
If anything i’ve picked up from the current climate in Ireland is correct, this should be as good as done.
Apparently, American fundamentalists are again sticking their noses where they don’t belong and pouring money into the no campaign.
We have to get out and vote, only the poll on Friday actually matters, yes we have 66,000 new, young and first time voters going to the polls, we also have nearly 260,000 currently out of the country. It will be a lot closer than the polls are showing as canvassers for the Yes side are reporting a mixed reception on the door step.
The red herring population in Ireland has been decimated, the no campaign have money to run in stream adds in YouTube but Yes have been running a very successful bus tour of the country and systematic canvassing. Only in the last week has the mask slipped showing the majority of No voters are doing so for religious views
Out of Five voters in my family I’ve gotten 3 with one No and one I will never tell you how I vote.
Ha…that reminds me of what happened here in Spain…The fuckers were really quite successful in pretending that their arguments against non-bigotry had some “other” reason behind them….oh, it’s concern for children…oh, it’s about tradition… oh, it’s about protecting the inmutability of language…