This sucks! Here in Ireland we have had an openly gay, well loved senator for years. Lots of prominent people in our media are gay. I bet if the government put a referendum to the people full marriage rights for the LGBT community would be legalized.

Tell me about Perez!! We are soo backwards here Ireland loves Perez !! Tila Tequila is a spastic!!!

Well duh. We've always been behind the curve on issues like this, it comes from having the church is such a position of power for so long. Ideally, civil marriage would be accepted now, but give us a couple of years and we'll catch up with the rest of the world. Frankly, I'm more worried about the financial situation, though perhaps I'm a little biased because I wouldn't be able to afford a wedding atm anyway XD

Im getting sick of your biased attitude here Perez. All you seem to care about is equality for gays. Believe me,many of us in Ireland know what it is like to be treated like a second class citizen and discriminated against, and it is nothing to do with being gay.
Gays in Ireland are very well accepted as far as i can see.The only difference is they dont shove shite down our throats everyday like you do. I am all for equality. One of my best friends is gay. Ireland is very open to the gay community.

Where is this public support you speak of?? Thanks to DeVelera we have a wonderful thing where you cannot change the constitution without a public refrendum.

My autistic brother has no equality in Ireland either!

My would never vote for G&L marraige unless it was clearly stated that g&l could not adopt. Yes children are undeniably fucked up by two straight parents, yet as fucked as they can, g&l only add yet ANOTHER fucked up dimension for a child to deal with.

it was also a sad day when you called william an f too.

Come on…these are the same people whoonly recently allowed birth control. And you expect them to evolve this much?

Re: Perez Is A B*tch –

Sorry if i sound stupid, but what has Notre Dame got to do with Ireland.?

swandive, ok so who are you to pass judgement on my country?

Perez is cancer to gay rights. Not only does he use the derogatory terms when he feels like he can, Perez is an attention whore. Perez, once the ad sponsor money runs out will you be sucking cock for cash in back alleys?

Re: LMG – It really dosn't. Ireland is a very tolerent,forward moving country. P.S nobody lisens to the church anymore. Not after the that scandal of sexual abuse and the most recent scandal of Artain.

At least Perez has finally stopped filing Irish issues under "Anglomania"…I guess…

yeah it sucks mind you the same thing happened on the abortion vote…… people voted yes to it and the government said no….what was the point of the polls then?

I live in Ireland and I seriously hate the government. Basically everything that they do is stupid. They actually have no clue about what the people want. I'm straight, but I'm just as much for gay rights as any gay person. Our government sucks. Alot. I think that the whole Catholic church thing is too powerful here. I mean, I am Catholic aswell, but I don't agree with the religion.. Religion should not come into their decisions about equality, it should be just about what it is, but they are stupid enough to let that get in the way, then they end up with unequal rights for the people..it all comes down to religion and perhaps certain governement members being homophobic. The Catholic church is the reason. And I hate being Catholic because of that.

Sweetmomma,as devastated as i am that MJ has died as I was a huge fan,what right have you got to say fuck gay rights…in that case I say fuck sweetmomma right in the fucking ear!How dare you? Anyways lets ignore her ignorance…As a gay man in Ireland I can agree with every other person on here who has dissed the government. They are ridiculous. I mean they fuck up gay rights,we vote No in the Lisbon treaty and they make us vote again and then they cut funding for hospitals and schools yet they recently spent millions on a piece of metal called the spire that is an unnecessay landmark while the standards of education are dropping and children and adults die in hospital. The only priorities the government and politicians have in Ireland is how they are going to line their own pockets with cash…its sickening!!!However R.I.P Michael Jackson and up Gay rights…Ps. Pride tomorrow…cant wait!

It really does suck. But considering how catholic this country used to be the governement couldn't risk further defeat or bad press by not passing a law. They did it to appease demands. But with gay rights now demanding equal treatment world wide instead of the legal recognition that was fine a few years ago, it makes this gesture pointless. However the VERY long bill covers more than gay rights and give's rights to several forms of long term co-habiting relationships of any kind. It's a good step even if it is still not a full one. Or track record on Abortion referendum's is proof enough that we can't shake our religious past.

Perez, There are muti-coloured flags along the banks of the River Liffey, running through the capital City of Ireland, this week in celebration of Gay Pride. The Irish are tremedously accepting of all walks of life - trust me Ive just returned from living in Japan and Ireland is light years ahead in acceptance of diversity.

The majority of people want equality for all here - as the survey shows. Our government are a bunch of wasters who couldnt organise a piss up in a brewery but i suppose we're a step closer to equality and thats never 'a sad day'.
There are sadder days in other countries.

im irish
i think if u love someone u should be allowed get married
love is love

Good. At least there is SOME sanity left in this world.