Do the Iona Institute think the Irish public and their elected representatives are a few sultanas short of the full wedding cake? Well they must obviously with the latest line of lobbying that is underway with regard to the Civil Partnership Bill. Yesterday we heard that Iona Institute and their Director, my favourite passive aggressive, [...]
Tags:Catholic Church·Civil Partnership Bill·Fianna Fáil·Iona Institute·Society and Culture
She writes to antagonise. Many of you are going to be extremely angry at reading her latest bit of rubbish. I could suggest that you not to bother with her. Or you could make her some Irish Stew. Or tell her something about children’s rights because she claims to be something of an expert. She’ [...]
It’s been a funny old week so far with that stuff from the Pope which some say we should ignore or laugh off but I think there are a lot of queers going home for xmas with it ringing in their ears. Today Channel 4 announce their shock jock ‘scoop’ factor for the alternative Christmas [...]
Immediately following his election Obama’s transition team launched change.gov. This site aims to continue his relationship with his supporters whilst detailing and also recruiting people to work in his administration (it explicitly lists a ban on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for those working in the Obama led White house [...]
Tags:Barack Obama·Civil Unions·Employment Non-Discrimination Act·Gay community·Irish LGBT Rights·Same-sex marriage
I’m subscribed to press releases from all the political parties and the title of this one from Sinn Fein made me actually open one for a change. And my stomach turned reading it… Chairperson of Magherafelt District Policing Partnership, Councillor Seán McPeake has condemned a vicious homophobic attack on two young men in Maghera at [...]
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Irish Rail staff are being advised in the art of enforcing heterosexuality in regards to the pursuit of free travel in the state. In fact you could call them the Travel Stasi for then Minister Mary Coughlan and the current Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin. Some background In 2001 a gay pensioner [...]
Tags:Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform·Mary Coughlan·Minister for Social and Family Affairs·Same-sex relationship·Social welfare provision
Many thanks to Ian for the tip on this letter in yesterday’s Sunday Independent from the General Secretary of the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors. Last weeks article you will remember was a load of rubbish from Jim Cusack. The letter is excellent in both it’s rebuttal and also in naming the impact of [...]
It’s a Sunday in August and the Sindo is rolling out it’s usual bigoted claptrap trying to be salacious drivel! Jim Cusack – the security correspondent with the Irish Independent/Sunday Independent might be seen to start the engine of a witchhunt against gay Gardai in this mornings lead story on the numbers of gay Gardai [...]
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If you are wondering who Elaine Donnelly is, aka the fount of all ‘wisdom’ on gays in the army, she works for the Center for Military Readiness – or to put it simply she spends her time campaigning against women and gays in the army!
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Senator Jim Walsh has been busy this week putting forward a motion to his parliamentary party concerning the proposed Civil Partnership legislation going too far. He has been busy saying he wasn’t being homophobic and saying his party colleagues who supported the motion (25 of them) weren’t homophobic. It’s clear from the silence that not [...]
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