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Ireland Gets Creative In Promoting Marriage Equality

September 14th 2009 06:52

Watch the following ad aimed for an Irish audience:

What do you think?

I think the short film is straight-forward and emotive, which is a winning combination. People are less likely to support the exclusion of homosexuals from the institution of marriage if they personally witness the people who are affected, as they fight for the right to establish their love as equally worthy of formal recognition as that of heterosexual couples.

According to a report released on the MarriagEquality.ie website, "an overwhelming 81%, or eight out of ten Irish people agree that everyone in Ireland should receive equal treatment from the state regardless of whether they are gay, lesbian or straight. Notably, those who most strongly agreed with this were 25-34 year olds at 90%, the lowest support among the over 65s was still high at 61%."

Support the Irish momentum towards full rights for same-sex attracted people by going to:

www.marriagequality.ie or calling their number (it's at the end of the video).

From colourful mythology towards a vibrant future for people of every spectrum

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Albania is set to legalise same-sex marriage!

July 31st 2009 03:51

Extra, extra, read all about it:

Really Long Link

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Some responses to this article include:

Albania?

ALBANIA!!? is more progressive than the UK?? WTF is going on? Albania is one of the poverty-stricken Eastern European states that are just emerging from the dark ages (cf Poland), and they're STILL ahead of the UK on this!

Hang your collective heads parliamentary Labour Party and Stonewall…

and:

This law will surely pass, but not because the majority of Albanians support it but because people there just aren't politically active/engaged/organized enough to oppose it.

Alleged apathy aside, how nice - we can add this to the 'welcome surprises', next to South Africa and Iowa...

I hope that Denmark and Finland will legalise same-sex marriage next in Europe...

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Sweden becomes 7th Country To Legalise Same-Sex Marriage!

April 2nd 2009 16:29

CNN reports:

Sweden's parliament on Wednesday approved same-sex marriage legislation, according to the parliament's Web site.

Previously, two people of the same sex could register their partnership, but with this vote, sex will no longer matter when two people want to get married.

The new "sex-neutral" law will take effect on May 1.

Couples who already had a registered partnership can now either stay in that union or transform it into a marriage if they wish, the Web site said.

The "yes" votes numbered 261, while 22 members of parliament voted "no" and 16 chose not to vote.

The Christian Democrats was the only party opposed to the new law.

"Unfortunately this is not an April Fool's Day joke, this is reality," Yvonne Andersson, member of the Swedish parliament for the Christian Democrats, wrote on the party's Web site following the vote.

The party had instead proposed a law that would remove the word "marriage" from Swedish law and replace it with a legally binding union between two persons, thus separating it from the Christian ceremony that the church conducts.

Asa Regner, secretary general of the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, told CNN that Wednesday's vote meant a very important change in Swedish law.

"This was the last area where same sex couples were treated differently," she said.

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See, I knew that the rest of Scandinavia wouldn't be too far behind Norway...

Yay for Sweden!

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How should you respond to blatant and unrepentant displays of racism?

March 18th 2009 07:29

Consider this short film, called The Black Rider:

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Is Attempting To Research Possible Differences In IQ Based On Race Racist?

March 16th 2009 11:13

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A Few More Reasons To Support Gay Marriage

February 20th 2009 02:48

The fight for Marriage Equality continues... From Connecticut to Norway, people who have just won the right to marry the person of their choice are saying

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Good News for African Women is in the Making: Clitoris Restoration!

February 4th 2009 11:57

Restoring your clitoris might not take away the psychological pressure of having your body violated by people of your own gender, but it will give you the chance to experience sexual pleasure on a new level!

Whether you are a gay man who has no idea what a clitoris looks like in person, you've been circumcised and have reason to believe that you deserve all the sexual satisfaction you can get, or are merely a sympathetic onlooker, and are looking to get involved in the Clitoraid clinic in some way, here's a video which will help you understand this latest, promising chapter of medical history and give you an idea of how your contrbution to Clitoraid might help women who have been mutilated and deprived of an important part of their anatomy

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Standing Up For Same-Sex Marriage: Jon Stewart Interviews Mike Huckabee

December 13th 2008 11:52

Dear PADSOC Readers,

We are part of a human rights struggle no less dramatic than that which went on in the 1960s when it comes to non-heterosexual rights. Some may feel that so many rights have been afforded to GLBTI people already (in Australia recently a number of alterations were made to legislation to more fully adapt to a climate of people not accepting institutionalised homophobia anymore - but this does not include gay marriage, a very important stop!), but that's only what homophobic people think and try to promote so that they don't have to question their prejudices. Before the 21st century we were all living in a world where notions of heteronormativity were informed by the selective sanctioning of a certain kind of relationships at the expense of others. I didn't realise that I could have been living in a very different world until a few years ago when Spain decided to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption. You can increase my capacity to dream of a world informed by full marriage equality... with every individual you have potentially uncomfortable conversations with about what so many people already agree should already be a 'fundamental right'. Legalising same-sex marriage is the modern day equivalent of legalising interracial marriage - we don't even think about the latter as unusual anymore, it's made our cultural landscapes so much more interesting, rich and varied, creating new cultures based on love and acceptance. In a way I am thankful that I will never take same-sex marriage for granted. It's a beautiful thing to witness history in the making, and know that I am part of it

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Why you should not call a black person 'tanned', Mr Berlusconi

November 27th 2008 02:17

I know that there's only a very small percentage of black people in Italy, Mr Prime Minister, but as the leader of a culturally prominent nation you should know better.

That's like a black person trying to be 'cute' (Silvio B's defense of this statement which sadly doesn't sound like it's been untouched by racist thinking, and is at best grossly inappropriate) about how incredibly different a white person looks by calling them 'bleached'. No doubt you had some magnanimous intent, were somewhat appreciative of Mr Obama's skin colour, and it is true that race should not be ignored at a time when Obama's black African heritage stands out in its singularity (for the country he represents, and the company he is in as President of the USA, that is - unless you're in Africa, chances are you will not see a lot of black leaders in the media

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