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Thousands march in Dublin for civil marriage rights for gays

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DARA KELLY,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 8:27 AM
Updated Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 8:30 AM

 

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Dublin: March for full marriage rights for gay couples
Dublin: March for full marriage rights for gay couples

Up to 3,000 Irish gay, bisexual and transgender protestors (and their straight allies) took to the streets of Dublin on Sunday to demand full civil marriage rights for same sex couples.

The protestors ranged in ages from from teenagers to seniors as they marched from Dublin City Hall to the Department of Justice on Saint Stephen's Green.

Chanting 'Equal rights now!' the colorful crowd marched in solidarity as passers-by cheered them on in the second March for Marriage organized by the gay rights organization LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Noise.

March Organizer Max Krzyzanowski told the press on Sunday that the Irish Civil Partnership Bill, which was signed into law on July 19, was a step towards equal rights for same-sex couples. However, he said, it doesn't give them the right to marry, and it leaves children of same-sex couples without the same rights as children of heterosexual parents.

Demonstrator Feargha Ni Bhroin and her partner Linda Cullen told the press they took part in the march to protest the lack of legal protection for their four-month-old twin daughters.

'The bill is completely silent on children,'  Ni Bhroin said. 'It really offers us nothing. Our children are still strangers in law to one of their parents.'

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Posted by nosoupforU on Aug 26, 2010, 12:53 AM EDT
Don't give them the publicity and they'll go back to the sewer.
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Posted by jimmy12003 on Aug 25, 2010, 05:37 PM EDT
we have enough to worry about here, with the corupt government we have, without giving a sh-it if as-sbandits want to get married!
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Posted by Liamkeyes on Aug 25, 2010, 05:00 PM EDT
I think that they are a bunch of 'Screamin' Roarin' Fairies!!!"
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Posted by JimThompson on Aug 25, 2010, 01:14 PM EDT
Come on now. Read the dictionary over the definagtion of marriage. If gays want to live with one another that is their business but why should we lower the value of "marriage" simply for the few that mentally or morally want to be different from the normal. It seems that gays want their different beliefs to be the normal and hetrosexual people's beliefs the abnormal.
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Posted by peterson on Aug 25, 2010, 01:14 PM EDT
I don't know. What does the Bible say about this ???
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Posted by FlynnMcCool on Aug 25, 2010, 11:48 AM EDT
Bravo! May freedome for all reign in the Irish Isles,for all who seek to be happy in their lives. Civil law not withstanding.
 


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