GAY MARRIAGE AND THE EX-ARCHBISHOP

Lord Carey is the former Archbishop of Canterbury. He recently complained about the fact that he was called a bigot by supporters of gay marriage. In response, he compared this to what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. He said that what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany started with people calling Jews names like this (‘bigots’) and it progressed on  a full holocaust. Lord Carey said, “same sex relationships are not the same as heterosexual relationships and should not be put on the same level”. I have just read an extraordinarily powerful and graphic article by Martin Robbins and I would urge you to read this article. It is headed, “Gay Marriage ‘Nazis’  and the disgrace of Lord Carey”. You can access it at www.mjrobbins.net  We are Irish so it won’t persuade you to protest in the streets about the same sex marriage question, but it might fire you up.

I hope you also heard Mary McAleese’s comments on RTE on Tuesday night on the subject of same sex marriage. She gave a very passionate and logical argument in favour of same sex marriage. Watch it on your iPlayer. Someone should nominate her for President.

Kevin Brophy

Same Sex Marriages

Here are two links to two very short videos. They will take you just over four minutes to watch. You should watch them if you are in any way undecided about whether or not same sex couples should be allowed to marry and either way you should pass them on to anybody else who you think might be interested i.e. everyone you know hopefully. The arguments for or against same sex marriage can often be quite academic. These videos bring it all down to a very fundamental level. Watch them and be moved.

http://marriagequality.ie/getinvolved/rory.html

http://southernequality.org/


Kevin Brophy
25.10.11

Same Sex Marriages

The Office of National Statistics in the UK say that over the last five years 5.5% of opposite sex marriages have ended in divorce while only 2.5% of same sex civil partnerships have been dissolved. We are talking about 2.5% of 42,000 civil partnerships.

What does this mean? Do same sex couples take the commitment more seriously than opposite sex couples?

The report also shows that people living in European countries which have recently legalised same sex partnerships have a far more positive attitude to homosexual marriage than in those countries where there is no such law.