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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaker on June 22, 2016, 10:49:38 PM

Title: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Shaker on June 22, 2016, 10:49:38 PM
If not this year, next. If not next year, the year after. Or the year after that. But come it assuredly will: http://goo.gl/lDKoyI
Title: Re: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Owlswing on June 23, 2016, 07:45:44 AM

If not this year, next. If not next year, the year after. Or the year after that. But come it assuredly will: http://goo.gl/lDKoyI


Typically it is the Paisleyites (the N I branch of the Westboro Baptists) who are preventing equal-marriage legislation at the moment.
Title: Re: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Shaker on June 23, 2016, 09:58:49 AM
Yep. The DUP are actively subverting the democratic process, since all the other parties are in favour and a majority of the public (68%, IIRC).
Title: Re: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Rhiannon on June 23, 2016, 09:59:53 AM
I've not read anything to say that they can't keep doing that regardless.
Title: Re: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Hope on June 23, 2016, 10:08:10 PM
Yep. The DUP are actively subverting the democratic process, since all the other parties are in favour and a majority of the public (68%, IIRC).
But the rest of the UK has often had a main party that makes up a minority of the public and have been able to push actions and policies through that aren't necessarily supported by the majority of the electorate (probably a better term than the rather nebulous 'public' which - obviously - includes children and other people ineligible to vote for whatever reason).
Title: Re: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Hope on June 23, 2016, 10:08:59 PM
I've not read anything to say that they can't keep doing that regardless.
After all, its happened on the manline for centuries - or, at least, decades!
Title: Re: Equal marriage coming to NI after all?
Post by: Owlswing on June 23, 2016, 11:10:43 PM

After all, its happened on the manline for centuries - or, at least, decades!


On the what?