Your point?

Seriously are you complaining because gay rights isn’t restricted to a day a year?

no it just seems counter productive to his cause.

I find it funny that it took more than one attempt for them to spell marriage correctly.

Then the women will want to vote.

It’ll all end in tears.

Careful now! Down with this sort of thing!

True that

It must be a priest. They all believe child abuse is a mystery

I thought the sphincter muscle was to stop things err coming out…

What do you mean it’s not flat? Where’s your proof /sarcasm

I got an atlas from the Grand Orange Lodge

The world is flat in parts.

Nothing is flat.

So there.

my tyre is flat :(

My wife’s chest is :-(

Those two things may have the appearance of flatness but the closer you get the less flat they will appear.

walked right up to it Donal and looked very closely and yep definately flat ;)

closer

Lol thanks for posting that. Hilarious.

Brilliant…. also, at the time of posting this reply there are at least 2 homosexuals who haven’t come to terms with their sexuality who have read it too…..

Never run with scissors because you get hurt:-)

For a bloke with issues about putting things up men’s holes , he should start by taking his head out of his own.

Thats against the Law though.

To be fair, the person expressed personal views directly. That’s no reason to make the person’s identity public.

I absolutely hate the idea that there are people that think this way but I don’t think people expressing their views privately to a person who represents them is a reason to make the person known to the public so that they can be berated.

Such views coming out (tee hee) serve to generate debate rather than change minds towards this kind of thinking. That’s a good thing. By having a name, we have a different focus. Instead of throwing poop at this person’s windows we’re actually talking about real issues and how they effect real people.

Just like YD have done for the abortion debate, despite their best efforts.

You are absolutely spot on Tony Iona. Focus on the issues and don’t waste energy on punishing people who oppose you.

ROFLcopter!

Mocking religion, church is perfectly fine as we saw on the occasion of yesterdays bible in hotel room article. Say anything remotely abusive about homosexuals is almost a crime…oh how two face are gays!

Hotel room article? Have you been at the alter wine? A bigot is a bigot is a bigot!

Fizi_water this is a distinction which has been discussed at length- religion is a world view which can be assumed or dismissed by any individual- it has a place in the marketplace of ideas and can be challenged, ridiculed and defended as such. Homosexuality is innate and cannot be discarded, therefore criticising it amounts to discrimination. The Pope could choose, intellectually, tomorrow to be an atheist, perhaps swayed by powerful arguments- but a homosexual can never decide to be straight, no matter how much abuse and criticism is thrown at them.

Also posting private correspondence without asking for the permission is cheap, smells like TD is looking for gay votes and also trying to turn the email sender into almost criminal or other bad person is ridicoulous.

And I believe everyone commenting is exercising their opinion so no problems there. People are free to agree with the contents of this person’s email or disagree and say so. Personally I think it’s repellent, bitter and angry but glad you agree with the right to express my opinion…

Well yeh ! Equality for all is not much to ask is it ?

No one is disputing that everyone has the right to an opinion. When “opinions” start infringing on peoples human rights (human rights that don’t have an impact on anyone except that one person in question) then that’s a different matter. And the manner in which this persons opinion was expressed is disturbing

Snap

He’s a TD….. they all are…. It used to be photos in the newsprint media. Now it’s the internet. Slave new world…

Yawn

As they say anything is possible in life!

It’s possible that there were WMD in Iraq too and they managed to hide them well enough just to reinforce anti-western sentiment…..

It’s also possible that you are a monkey at a keyboard who has strayed from the pursuit of Shakespeare’s works.

Not really that likely though is it – it’s more believable that there actually are people like this still in Ireland, much as we may not like to think so – see also: Youth Defense (yep – I went there…)

great advice right there…. distance yourself from gay issues or else people will think your gay too and you don’t want that do you?. (…oh please :-/)

Nope I’ve thought he was gay in ages now. nothing to do with this article alone. I don’t care if he is or isn’t but it is an observation.

Also the opposite is more often true, People often (and i am NOT saying this is what Ó Riordáin is doing) but they often get closely associated with an issue in order to be more immune. It’s ironic but it’s the way it is. Stay away from something and people are more suspicious.

The sexuality of the TD is absolutely irrelevant. You’ve done nothing here but opened the door to speculation about O’Riordain’s sexuality. This adds nothing to the discussion.

“If he were to have a problem with this person’s email to him, then you would think that he would fully disclose it.”
Is it not enough to disclose that as a human being he is obviously of the opinion that the sender is homophobic? You seem to suggest that the TD’s sexuality, whatever that may be, has any bearing on the contents of the letter – what bearing would that be?

I’m sorry if I’m insulting you now but what you’ve said appears to suggest that people SHOULD hide their homosexual lives – hasn’t this very attitude done enough harm already?

Hi Lisa,

The posts were removed as they went against on our community policy, specifically:

Do not make personal remarks about the author of a story, about individuals mentioned in stories, or about other commenters.

Thanks,
Sinead

Pity it isn’t illegal to be a bigoted auld moanbag.

Are you telling us that you agree with this person Do you equate equality for gay people with the bull that this email represents. nnAs Gay Byrne once said on a gay rights Late Late debate when asked about people that were preoccupied with another man’s back passage he asked what about people who are preoccupied with a woman’s front passage nnIf I agree not to have anal sex can I also become an equal citizen of ireland with the same rights and privileges as any other citizen of this country.

Hopefully not for too much longer. Maybe when the sky doesnt fall in and the institution of marriage continues to thrive, the scales might fall from the eyes of the emailer and those who think like him.

The law might be with the sender but not a lot else.

Personally, I think the sphincter is more about not sh*tting oneself rather than for keeping foreign objects out.

In truth, this person exposes more about themselves than they probably intend – the letter is FULL of contradictions.
They blame lobby groups for supporting the gay marriage cause.
I blame indoctrination for convincing this poor soul that any claimed creator spent so much thinking about ar5eholes.

Being gay is hardly a choice. The fact of loving someone from the same sex in no way harms those outside that relationship.
If one were to take this person’s views seriously then we’d only have sex in order to have children.

So you don’t believe in a man and a woman who can’t conceive naturally using IVF to conceive then? Nice…

Fugly mofos can’t reproduce without getting the other person drunk either, specially when they can’t even see their utensils beneath their gut. Ugly bigots shouldn’t be allowed to marry or reproduce. Not nice is it?

Give it up Mark. How about also stopping:

-Having sex durring a woman’s period.
-Eating animals without split hooves.
-Fish without fins or without scales
-Having sex until 33 days after birthing son or 66 days after birthing daughter.
-Wearing Clothes with different kinds of material
-Planting of fields with different kinds of seeds.
-Trimming the corners of your beard.

Bible has a lot of crazy stuff in it. Don’t preach the bits which suit.

What makes you think it would have to be an artificial intervention. If a gay man wanted to father a child he could find a willing female and they could make a baby together. There’s plenty of bisexual people out there that have biological children from passed straight relationships who are now in same sex relationships. I don’t know where the idea that it’s not possible for a guy person to pro-create.

I respect that you have expressed your opinion Mark – whether or not I agree (which I don’t – just to be clear)

However, I would say that the reason you have given for same sex partners not having kids is a pretty flawed one. Unless of course you would agree that a married (heterosexual) couple should not be able to adopt or be permitted to seek “artificial intervention” in order to allow them to be loving, supportive and caring family unit?

If you think that a married (heterosexual) couple do indeed deserve to be “facilitated” in the above ways and I am wrong with the above statement then it stands that your problem then is that you assume that same-sex couples are incapable of providing a loving, supportive and caring environment.
To believe such a thing would (IMO) indicate that you believe that LGBT persons are somehow less than human???

Either that or you may be clinging to the idea that gay couples bring up gay children – which is kind of ironic don’t you think? Especially considering that many heterosexual couples have brought up gay children?

I would hope that you would not find the above an attack on you, more an opinion expressed on how flawed I feel your opinion is.

So would infertile couples , or elderly couples not have the right to have kids then ??

Come on Mark. Why not answer the question?

“Hi Lisa,
The posts were removed as they went against on our community policy, specifically:
Do not make personal remarks about the author of a story, about individuals mentioned in stories, or about other commenters.
Thanks,
Sinead”

The above text replaces your removed post. Having seen the content in my email alert I’m not at all surprised.

While I won’t quote anything from it – I will address one point. You’ve suggested that politics is a place for those who don’t want to come out to stick together – can you clarify what would be wrong with that? [You specifically called it "deceit" (that is a directly quoted word despite saying I wouldn't quote - I felt it important to note the lack of P)]

It also saddens me to see that you are being saddened because someone is getting their rights.
Just because your religion doesn’t agree with something doesn’t mean it should be illegal. What if Muslims campaigned so that all women had to wear burqas?

Actually if you go to a prdominatly Muslim country, women do have to wear them. Go figure.

We live in a “predominate” “christian” country, where for a long time, catholism had great influence on such matters in government. And who says its their right to be married, or have kids? hmm, no thanks, I will not support such things and like you and those who are against what I have to say, free speech. AND yes gays/homosexuals have a right to “voice” such things, so do we. It is not old fashioned, nor ignorant, its that I firmly believe that God of the “New Testament” and other modern scriptures, says that these things are wrong. But hey, I am just another unintllectual bigot… right?

You’re not gay why do you care that I may want to get married? It’s not you marrying another man. It was against the law for a long time in the US for a black person to marry a white. The bible was used as justification. “Race mixing is sin”. There’s no such thing as a gay marriage there is only marriage. Nobody goes around announcing their interracial marriage do they?

You want to give me that passage where it says about black not mixing with white, just curious about that, so I can look it up… and if your gay, that doesnt bother me. Never has, but what bothers me is that the gay community wants the rights to be married and have kids… I am not sorry if what I say offends people, its my point of view and what I feel needs to be spoken out against.

on the gays being able to have kids, = wrong full stop, period.

As for interracial marriage, again doesnt bother me, as long as its between a man and a woman. It’s my right to speak out against something which I feel is wrong.

Now, what would be breaching their/your “Human rights” is if I tourched and burned and persectued every gay person alive, I am not doing that and I do not encourage such. and that is why I am using my freedom to speak out against things which I feel is wrong. Its something we are allowed to do, for which I am grateful for.