No surprise here, the Catholic church is using scare tactics and urging people to pray before voting.
The surprise is that it seems that a majority will support gay marriage, despite the fact that on the subject of abortions, Ireland is extremely conservative.(More or less illegal unless it is question of life and death, and even then...)

In a series of recent opinion polls, support for gay marriage in Ireland has stood at around 70% of the electorate although among older voters there is a small majority who will vote no.

And interestingly, this will be the first time that the legalization of gay marriage will be decided by referendum.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... y-marriage

I'd say a referendum is a pretty good way of going about it. Not saying the masses are always right, but it's democratic.

A Gae-lic referendum may be a little bias!

Yobbo wrote:A Gae-lic referendum may be a little bias!

Confess Yob, you are a Vlad robo-sock-puppet-pun machine, right ?
Unless you are really a Stroppy-Chops-sock-pun machine ?
Or, you just can't help yourself...in that case...try: My name is Yobbo and I am a punner.
All the best for your recovery.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:I'd say a referendum is a pretty good way of going about it. Not saying the masses are always right, but it's democratic.

Unless it's yet another referendum in Australia on daylight savings, which is then ignored when the masses overwhelmingly say no and business wants yes.

SC, in all fairness, to mention 'government' and 'Australia' in the same sentence; oxymoron

vladimir wrote:SC, in all fairness, to mention 'government' and 'Australia' in the same sentence; oxymoron

As opposed to... oh, never mind, I see your problem!

Yobbo wrote:A Gae-lic referendum may be a little bias!

Upgrade:

A gae-lick referendum may be a little bi-assed.