Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore believes the “time has come” for same-sex marriage

It has nothing to do with dogma or religion. When Ireland could be in the forefront of leading the world back to a recognition of God, she instead follows the rest of Europe and the USA and Canada down the rat-hole of secular humanism. No society based on atheism and hedonism has ever flourished of endured for long. How sad that Ireland will disappear.

Eamon Gilmore is absolutely right!

@hermitTalker, It's everyone's responsibility to become informed about and ultimately to decide what comes from Nature. If the American founders had not respected "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," then we'd still be an underrepresented set of colonies subject to a British monarch and Parliament. The equality of all citizens under human law is among the first-rank tenets of Natural Law. When an issue involves equality, as same-sex marriage does, government must respond. What's the alternative? For government to enact the sectarian moralistic dogmas of your church? Uh-uh! @handsome68, Mosaic law forbids adultery, but says nothing about the gender of spouses nor the number of spouses (polygamy was OK and required by some OT passages)! "One man, one woman"? FIND it in Mosaic law, and don't skip over the passages that command men to practice what we now call bigamy.

Bravo for Gilmore. Gay marriage is coming to a civilized country near you, so why not in your own country. I'm Irish to the core but, alas, I live in the US and have all my life. My single trip to both Ireland and Northern Ireland a few years ago was an eye-opening experience. While at the moment the Republic of Ireland is struggling financially and the six counties of Northern Ireland remain "British," I was blown away by the beauty of the country, the beauty and friendliness of the people, and it just seems a logical step for there to be legal marriage for same-sex couples. Wonderful!

What dumb logic from our Foreign Affairs minister and deputy Taoiseach. Marriage has a specific meaning and purpose. "Rights" and "choice" are not absolutes. Make rules for the regulation of society, that is government's role, not deciding what the Rules are that come from Nature, not the Constitution or any Court anywhere.

Re: same-sex marriage, there is "an elephant in the room". That "elephant" is the Mosaic Law adhered to by both observant Jews and Christians alike. (I can't speak about Muslims, since I don't know enough about, e.g., the Koran.) That Law (not suggestion) is that marriage (as I understand it, anyway) is a binding contract only between a loving man and woman. Only then can it be holy in the sight of God. Ireland should not follow the 'slippery slope' of, e.g., the USA. Or was the so-called Catholicism in Ireland only skin-deep, as so many have always believed?

cillowen are you talking about Romney ?