fantastic marriage equaility ad
Sep. 2nd, 2009 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmhttp://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/irelands_unbelievably_good_commercial_for_marriage_equality
When I visited Ireland they were having a pretty horrifying national debate on whether to legalize divorce.
But this is lovely.
When I visited Ireland they were having a pretty horrifying national debate on whether to legalize divorce.
But this is lovely.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-02 08:04 pm (UTC)If that really passes over the next few years, Ireland will have another reason for being one of my fave countries.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-02 08:09 pm (UTC)Sad that the most effective ads for marriage equality are the ones that don't show any queer people, but not all that surprising.
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Date: 2009-09-02 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-02 10:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-02 11:05 pm (UTC)I also liked how they framed it as civil marriage too, which will, hopefully, bypass the religious rhetoric.
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Date: 2009-09-03 03:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-03 04:43 am (UTC)god save the gaeltacht.
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Date: 2009-09-03 01:25 pm (UTC)But yikes, I had no idea they hadn't yet legalised divorce there...
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Date: 2009-09-22 08:37 pm (UTC)Ireland legalised divorce back in 1995. It's distressingly recent compared to many other places, but it was partly due to the underlying religious issues that still lurked despite the church and state no longer being joined at the hip. :/