Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny refuses to personally back gay marriage proposal

@@oldboreen | Jul 11, 2012, 05:06 PM EDT My personal views on gay marriage will be of no interest to anyone here. I will say however, that I firmly uphold Enda Kenny's decision to remain silent on the issue of same sex marriage. He has a perfect right to exercise conscience.Until or unless he makes his personal views known,we should make no judgements one way or the other.>>>>> BUT YOUR AMERICAN LIVING IN AMERICA AND BORN THERE.. GAY MARRIAGE IN IRELAND OR ENDA KENNY AND OUR GOVERMENT HAS REALLY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU .. UNLESS YOUR AN IRISH CITIZEN AND LIVING OVER HERE IN IRELAND LIKE I AM!!!

YERRA KENNY IS SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH IRELAND AND IRISH CITIZENS ITS COMICAL.. HOW HE GOT INTO GOVERMENT ILL NEVER KNOW.. HIS TOO BUSY RUNNING AROUND AMERICAN HANDING OUT BOWLS OF SHAMROCKS TO THE TANKS AND KISSIN THEIR ASSES.. THE QUICKER NOW WE GET SOME YOUNGER FRESHER NEW BLOOD INTO IRISH POLITICS THE BETTER AND SEND ALL THSE OULD FELLAS PACKING THE BETTER FOR ALL OF US.. HOW AN EX SCHOOL TEACHER LIKE KENNY CAN GO ON AND RUN ANY COUNRY IS WAY BEYOND ME..

rpbrown, marriage between same sex couples will happen within the next 5 years. I have a few gay mates who want to get married and as we all know, gay men throw the best parties so their wedding is gonna be amazing!!

And it seems to me, the number one threat to marriage isn't gay people getting married, it's divorce! If you all are so serious about the sanctity of marriage make divorce illegal. Stopping blaming your problems on gay people you don't even know!

Unless you want to have a same sex marriage, this issue is none of your business!!! Stop blaming your high divorce rates, unhappy family homes and your own guilty thoughts on gay people! I'm not in your home-that's your business not mine! So STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY HOME! If I pay taxes in Ireland, I have EVERY right to marry any human I chose in Ireland. I don't give a crap whether you think it's right or wrong in God's eyes or whatever you claim to believe, that's your business not mine! LEAVE GAY PEOPLE ALONE, if they want to get married, it's not your business!! So if Mr. Kenny is coming from a place not of judgement but of "this really has nothing to do with me" I sort of appreciate that.

Kudos to Mr. Kenny, a rare man willing to stand for his principals and faith held beliefs.

My personal views on gay marriage will be of no interest to anyone here. I will say however, that I firmly uphold Enda Kenny's decision to remain silent on the issue of same sex marriage. He has a perfect right to exercise conscience.Until or unless he makes his personal views known,we should make no judgements one way or the other.

gays people are HUMAN BEINGS....and should have the SAME RIGHTS as HETROSEXUALS....this isn't about wanting to marry MORE then 1 person at a time or wanting to marry a family member or an ANIMAL....this is about wanting to marry a person of the SAME GENDER and having ALL THE SAME RIGHTS & PROTECTIONS that STRAIGHT COUPLE HAVE "TAKEN" FOR GRANTED FOR YEARS....and STOP making this about same-sex couple NOT being able to have kids...STRAIGHT COUPLE don't want kids or can't have them....should they be KEPT FROM MARRYING?....HELL, some straight couples shouldn't have kids period.....LOVE IS LOVE, NO MATTER THE "GENDER" OR RACE OF THOSE INVOLVED....SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WILL HARM HETROSEXUAL MARRIAGE, unless those in the marriage ALLOW it to happen....GOD MADE EVERYONE, INCLUDING GAYS. alisa

"Giver of every gift, source of all goodness, hear the prayers we bring before you for __N__ and __N__, who seek your blessing this day. Give them a share in the saving work of Jesus, who gave himself for us, and bring about the fullness of life he promised, who now lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen." -- the Collect prayer in the recently adopted Episcopal Church blessing of lifelong covenants. It is a beautiful liturgy (as most wedding ceremonies are), available on line as "Excerpts from "'I Will Bless You, and You Will Be a Blessing' Resources for Blessing Same-Gender Relationships," by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music of the Episcopal Church, March 7, 2012.

If you're going to call yourself IrishThinker shouldn't you take special care to ensure the name applies? I wish that posters like this could realise how hurtful their windy rhetoric is to heterosexual couples who find themselves being called 'unnatural' for having to follow the similar sperm/egg donation or surrogacy route to gay couples often do. Appealing to nature to condemn gay people is frankly stupid, since homosexuality is found all over nature, and indeed is as aspect of nature.

Words and their meanings Marriage: One male and one female Husband: Male Wife: Female Father: Male Mother: Female I could go on but if you haven’t got by now you won’t.

No Government anywhere, no Court anywhere and no referendum anywhere can re-define marriage. By nature it is male and female. Make regulations for same-gender unions, live-ins and such which is a legitimate concern of Government, to regulate the civil society. But allow Nature, God to decide what marriage is. IF they do go with the idiotic culture of the Left, think it through; property rights, children's rights if they already had any or if they rent a womb, and conscience protection to allow religious groups to opt-out- Clegg in the UK wants to force the Churches to perform them. When Ireland allowed divorce, they did not think it through. They might get Dr Reilly to find HSE cash so men and women could get surgery to take turns at being Jill and Judy/Jack and Jimmy for real social equity. That would really even out the genders, may not be acceptable to Mother Nature of course. Then they could call the ocean the desert and bogs could become land for planting wheat and spuds. Just pass a law and make it all go away.

Here's to the man who takes a stand!-One For the Morning Glories-Makem&Clancy

Next thing you know conservatives will have no choice but to treat gay people with dignity and consideration and then who'll be left to vote for the Republicans? I'm not sure why MikeHoulihan is so concerned about the fate of 'habitual masturbators'? Maybe he has a special interest in their fate?

How about people marring their dogs.