Quote from: Eamonnca1 on May 18, 2015, 01:25:49 AMthis is a referendum in the Republic of Ireland not the usa so don't worry about it unless u have a vote here or want to come back and marry a man here.Quote from: armaghniac on May 17, 2015, 01:18:26 PM
There are questions over surrogacy whoever is involved and some of these techniques are banned and some should be. Nobody is arguing for surrogacy for heterosexual couples being a relavant factor in this debate, whereas you keep saying thay gay couples can have children.
And there is much talk of adoption. Adopting children may well be a selfless act, but the total number adopted in the 26 counties in a year would fit on the Roscommon bus and probably their adoptive parents as well. As there is a ready supply of heterosexual parents wishing to adopt then adoption by homosexuals needs never take place, it is certainly not appropriate to distort marriage where 10s of thousands of children are born every year for some benefit for 3 or 4 children whose welfare is best dealt with by adoption law, not changes to the constitution.
Is your real name Donald Rumsfeld? I don't think even he could come up with such a carefully crafted piece of obfuscation. If, in the middle of all that, there is an answer to my question about how existing marriages or future heterosexual marriages are affected by same-sex marriages, you're going to have to help me find it.