The plebiscite was put a proposal to amend the Constitution to the corresponding record spoke of marriage as the union of “two persons, without distinction of sex.”
are entitled to vote 3.2 million people in traditionally Catholic Ireland. Polling stations will be open for hours. 22 local time (hr. 23 in Poland). The results should be known by tomorrow afternoon.
In a sense, the referendum is a test of strength between the influential Catholic Church and representing the secular orientation of the government of Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Priests from pulpits to call the faithful to reject legalization.
The government’s campaign to legalize same-sex marriage for good in full swing up in January, when 36-year-old health minister Leo Varadkar admitted publicly that he is gay to be able to fully engage in persuading the Irish to accept same-sex marriage.
She was President Mary McAleese, whose 30-year-old son revealed precisely that he is gay, calls for the referendum to vote “yes” and warned that otherwise huge price to pay ” our gay children. “
already legalized gay marriage in 19 countries, including the UK (with except Northern Ireland) and in most states. In Ireland it decided on a constitutional referendum to put the matter clearly, because conservative constitution of 1937, which the then Prime Minister Eamon de Valera wrote in collaboration with the leaders of the Catholic Church emphasizes indeed inalienable rights of married couples, but does not explicitly states that marriage is a union a woman and a man.
No such provision was due to the fact that gays have been in public life “traditionally invisible “. Now it was concluded that the safest way to legalize same-sex marriage will write the constitution, what you need is a referendum, not to risk charges of unconstitutionality.
Until 1993 homosexual acts were in Ireland prohibited by law. In 2010, the country was legalized in homosexual partnerships, but in 2013 committee. Constitutional reform recommended that the full legalization of same-sex marriage and Prime Minister Kenny has supported this recommendation.
The proposed amendment by the government assumes the legality of the marriage “of two people regardless of gender”. To make this fact in a referendum by a simple majority.
Polls show that the majority of Irish people for such a solution. Opponents are trying to raise fears that gay marriage can be dangerous for children. The posters with images of traditional family stress that “children deserve and mother, and father.”
Irish bishops in a joint statement indicates that the legalization of “zrównałaby union of two men or two women from conjugal relationship between husband and wife, which relationship is open to procreation”. The bishops warn that consent for same-sex marriage would mean that “more and more difficult it would be to speak publicly about marriage as the union of a man and a woman” and ask, what if legalization would teach children about marriage.
However, there are and the people of the Church who promise to vote “yes”, acknowledging that bishops are wrong. And the archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin suggested a more nuanced approach to the defense of traditional marriage – said that the faithful should vote according to their conscience.
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