Can Ahern be that dumb that he thinks the costs of tying up the office of the AG/ Chief State Solicitor over this cac would be justified in this time of economic woe?

Can he be that dumb to think we don’t know about FF’s moral compass? It point at money and power. Look, I will not take any morality lessons from a party who took envelopes while people lived in poverty, who flagrantly allowed more than one leader to openly have a mistress at taxpayer expense, while denying rights of people to divorce, second relationships, contraception, etc.,etc. Open the box on this if you want to…

Can he really be that dumb that he thinks we’re not aware of a ‘tiny’ reluctance on his part to institute civil partnership legislation? Wouldn’t his efforts be better spent on that? Or anything else useful, like how to row a lifeboat from a sinking ship?

[quote](My friend the poet can close her mouth now – and maybe write a poem about the immaculate conception and the role of lesbian crones or something!)[/quote]

You know, I’m sure I have something along those lines but for now how about a bit of Catholic worship? Or should that be fetishisation?

For Mary
from a proddydog to a catlick

A great big lump of a girl, is that
Mary; said me Mam.
I saw you: heading home after
confession – in a state of grace; holy.

Loving our virginity and
link to the Lady you
serve I aspire even now to that
piety, that purity, that glow.

Lumpen prod, I follow the women who
serve, hoping some magic transfers.

In this case we’re talking about cold, hard (ooer) legislation. We’re talking possible prosecution. Or INEVITABLE prosecution if the thing goes through in the form it currently appears to be taking.

We’re living in depressing times.

Apart from the fact that only the state (the DPP) would be able to take cases under the proposed bill whereas currently the old bill allows anyone to take a case (1961) – though they would be unsuccessful as the only case taken in 1999 shows. I don’t support this legislation – its a lazy way of trying to avoid a referendum but can we stop with the shrill bull that its right wing catholics taking control of the state. Its just the typical approach to these issues across the divide of the oireachtas when it comes to issues which need a constitutional amendment.

P.