This is what I'm talking about for England...
"Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013"
I have no idea if what Ireland has just voted for in the Referendum is the same thing, but I'm just thrilled I can marry my girlfriend if I wanted to. That's assuming she would feel the same way of course!!
My city of Atlanta voted a resolution in favor of gay marriage. But since marriage is a state provision by law, it is only ceremonial, officially saying it has our support.
In the USA, each of the 50 states has its own say so by law, but that can be overridden by either the US Supreme Court by court decision or by a constitutional amendment. A constitutional amendment would have to be passed by a two-thirds majority or more of the 50 states or by a two-thirds majority or more of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.
"insensitive prick!" – Danielle Algo
The best thing about gay marriage is that as soon as you have it it doesn't exist anymore, as it's just marriage then. I'm sure there must be a good pro gay marriage campaign in that fact somewhere.
I love how this is still gaining momentum. The first true same-sex marriages in the (modern) world happened less than 15 years ago still.
=== Not ALL LIVES MATTER until BLACK LIVES MATTER ===
I think this is amazing. It is about damn time. Now if the rest of the world would get their heads out of their asses, we'll be golden.
I'm a straight as a ruler Christian but I celebrate this decision. Jesus said to love one another as I love you. That means love without judgement.
Scotland passed the equivalent bill last year, too. I'm going to my first "gay wedding" (my cousin's) in two weeks.
NOT THE SAME BILL!!!! READ THE FUCKING PAPER!
CAN WE CLARIFY!!!!
Other countries have CIVIL PARTNERSHIP, PRIVATE CEREMONIES ETC...
IRELAND... Is the ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD now where a declared union under the constitutional law is valid as any other constitutionally declared union under the law, REGARDLESS OF THE SEX OF EACH PARTNER!...
KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!!
Because we FOUGHT BALLS OUT FOR THIS!!!
It's NOT happy happy "Here's your Cert But If She Dies You Don't Get A Pension because you are QUEER..."
*WE FUCKED THAT SHIT!!!*
READ THE FUCKING NEWS!!!
We CHANGED THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR COUNTRY TO GUARANTEE OUR LGBT MARRIED COUPLES *EXACTLY* the same rights UNDER CIVIL LAW as any other couple...
Let's ILLUSTRATE SHALL WE...
(I'm making UP all these names...)
A man called JAMIE O NEILL, ( later a novelist who wrote AT SWIM TWO BOYS...) fell quite in love with a British broadcaster called RUSSELL HARTY... They lived together as lovers and were just as happy as anyone might hope to be... FOR YEARS...
Then Russell died.
(And the day after the funeral JAMIE was fucked out onto the street by Russell's family, poor Russ, not having invisioned his death, not having provided for his HUSBAND in terms of a will...)
BOOM!
CIVIL PARTNERSHIP MY ASS!!!
You're ON THE FUCKING STREET BABY!!!
UNLESS, you live in IRELAND where from, MAY 25th, married is married and you have legal rights, TOTAL EQUALITY...
WATCH THE FUCKING SKY!!!
("But I went to Phil and Franks wedding and it was fantastic...)
Yeah BUT CHECK THE FORMS...
(In IRELAND WE DID, we SAW the law was a nonsense so WE FUCKING VOTED AS A COUNTRY TO CHANGE IT!)
*FUCKING KNOW WHY WE FIGHT PLEASE!!!!!*
CAN YOU IMAGINE what we had to do??? DOORSTEP CONVERSATION WITH MIDDLE IRELAND... Rita, Widow, 67, NEVER MET A QUEEN IN HER LIFE!!! (Except the lad who cuts her hair...)
(jesus!)
SF
WHAT WE DID WAS GLOBAL NEWS!!!
(If it had have existed before, DON'T YOU THINK WE MIGHT HAVE HEARD ABOUT IT???)
(I say again...)
JESUS!
(THIS is what you have to deal with... LET THEM EAT CAKE... Well, we didn't... And more battles are on the Horizon...)
By The Way, IGNORANCE is NOT an excuse.
Okay...
Rant Over but think this...
Those of us who doorstep campaigned had to deal with THIS: "But aren't they all filthy dirty child molesters who do bum sex?"
And you have to TALK somebody over that strange attitude...
And we did.
(That's Why We Won...)
But I'll be honest, REALLY HONEST!!! (Night after night I came home and wept...)
The night before the VOTE I talked to a really good mate here and said, "We Might Not Win..."
Well, we DID win, but it's never enough and we keep fighting...
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
PASTOR NIEMOLLER. DIED IN DACHAU...
So We Fight.
xx SF
California passed laws allowing gay marriage just last year and I was just bubbling with pride. I'm overjoyed to see this right protected on a national level somewhere. I'll lift a pint for Ireland and hope the messege they sent is heard around the world!
There is a long way to go, you can't even live openly gay on most of the planet, much less have gay marriage. Wondering here what the Supreme Court is going to do in regards to gay marriage and its coming up soon.