So I am a gay person living in Ireland (UK Citizen) anyway the ROI has the referendum on same sex marriage in 2015 and the campaigning is just getting underway. With a opinion poll showing 75% support for it it looks like the No lobby have a lot of work to do, and this has triggered loads of Christian groups to campaign against it.
There is this one group called the Iona Institute (Eire has very lax laws on what can be called an institute) which is funded by US Christians and creates adverts full of all the "family" cliches, and it has contacts within the Media like RTE one of their "experts" is brought in for every interview on TV even though they don't speak for Irish Catholics at all.
I am kinda worried about being the but of hatred, the other week in NUI Galway (I am a PhD student at Trinity College) a Catholic groups was spreading propaganda saying that homosexuals should pray to be free of their sexuality and live a celibate life. The group shut down but still I am afraid of what might happen when these groups realise they are the underdogs.
Maybe I am paranoid but the older generations who are more vocal and ore devout are very opposed to same sex marriage. Even some of the teenagers I have been attacked once for looking gay.
There is this one group called the Iona Institute (Eire has very lax laws on what can be called an institute) which is funded by US Christians and creates adverts full of all the "family" cliches, and it has contacts within the Media like RTE one of their "experts" is brought in for every interview on TV even though they don't speak for Irish Catholics at all.
I am kinda worried about being the but of hatred, the other week in NUI Galway (I am a PhD student at Trinity College) a Catholic groups was spreading propaganda saying that homosexuals should pray to be free of their sexuality and live a celibate life. The group shut down but still I am afraid of what might happen when these groups realise they are the underdogs.
Maybe I am paranoid but the older generations who are more vocal and ore devout are very opposed to same sex marriage. Even some of the teenagers I have been attacked once for looking gay.
