Republin Sn Fé most recent platform and policy on Gay Marriage 2023. In rponse to the qutn “Do you support the legalisatn of same sex marriage?”, Republin Sn Fé rponse was...
Contents:
- SF’S GAY MARRIAGE BACKG NTRAST TO PAST ‘TOLERANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY’
- THE MORAL GUARDIANS? DUP AND SN FE SUPPORTERS’ ATTUS TO GAY AND ABORTN RIGHTS
- ANTI-GAY ATTUS NORTHERN IRELAND ARE CHANGG
- 'NEW CULTURE WAR': NORTHERN IRELAND'S LGBT+ MUNY FIGHTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE VOTE EXPOS EP DIVISNS WH NORTHERN IRELAND PARTI
- NORTHERN IRELAND REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE FOR 5TH TIME
- GAY MARRIAGE NORTHERN IRELAND: CATHOLICS AND UNNISTS BLOCK MOTN
SF’S GAY MARRIAGE BACKG NTRAST TO PAST ‘TOLERANCE OF HOMOSEXUALY’
* sinn fein policy on gay marriage *
“It’s about an absolute regnn of people’s equaly, rpect for people’s inty, rpect for people’s choic and an affirmatn that we wish our cizens to be ee, equal and happy, ” said Ms Fé print Gerry Adams said many people had a fay member, iend or work lleague who was gay.
THE MORAL GUARDIANS? DUP AND SN FE SUPPORTERS’ ATTUS TO GAY AND ABORTN RIGHTS
Many people have a fay member, iend or lleague who is gay, says Gerry Adams * sinn fein policy on gay marriage *
Urban voters, women and young people are most likely to vote for Warfield, the Sn Fé mayor of South County Dubl, said a Y vote would send a msage to young people who were gay, reassurg them that "'s okay to be gay, to e to terms wh your sexualy the school yard or your lol GAA club" Fé is also llg for a Y vote the referendum on rcg the mimum age for printial ndidat om 35 to 21.
A “bizarre” sectn of the IRA’s trag manual lays bare the srn for homosexuals felt by many people the paraary group – somethg which “fli the face” of Sn Fe’s prent gay-iendly Fe MLA and ex-IRA bomber Gerry Kelly at the 2014 Belfast Pri para Belfast cy centreThat is the view of former IRA man Anthony McIntyre, who was speakg to the News Letter about the ntents of the Green Book – the facto operatg gui of the Provisnal movement, which set out at length how the “war” was to be Sn Fe has hailed the recent mov to troduce gay marriage to the Provce, and clar has a “longstandg posn of support for LGBT equaly all dimensns of life and law”. In addn, s gay rights wg (Sn Fe LGBT) boasts that is “Ireland’s largt LGBT+ polil anisatn”.
ANTI-GAY ATTUS NORTHERN IRELAND ARE CHANGG
A “bizarre” sectn of the IRA’s trag manual lays bare the srn for homosexuals felt by many people the paraary group – somethg which “fli the face” of Sn Fe’s prent gay-iendly image. * sinn fein policy on gay marriage *
However, this paper recently me across referenc to homosexualy the IRA manual which stand stark ntrast wh the party’s progrsive rhetoric of today. Anthony McIntyre, pictured outsi his home the Republic of Ireland, December 2014In addn, both ex-IRA bomber Shane Pl O’Doherty and gay mpaigner Jeff Dudgeon both said they believe the Provisnals have sanctned punishment attacks agast homosexuals the past.
'NEW CULTURE WAR': NORTHERN IRELAND'S LGBT+ MUNY FIGHTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
The SDLP and Alliance Party have been acced of beg a ms over gay marriage after their MLAs spl a cnch vote on the issue. * sinn fein policy on gay marriage *
Jefey Dudgeon, gay mpaigner and veteran UUP figureIt reads: “Volunteers should attempt to unrstand the mentaly which unrli this act and so be better prepared to meet this angle if and when happens to them, ” addg that such huiatn “has eper unrton than one would gus” ntu: “Volunteers should unrstand that om a psychologil pot of view this act is lled a penis plex. “This plex is herent the homosexual and although the terrogators themselv may be married men wh a fay dit supprsed homosexual tennci.
GAY MARRIAGE VOTE EXPOS EP DIVISNS WH NORTHERN IRELAND PARTI
“He should look upon them as homosexuals wh the immuny of the tablishment, as people who bee sadistic om the homosexual tennci, which unrlie them. “The Green Book was exprsg sentiments which were very anti-gay, or if not anti-gay then at least ntemptuo of gays, scribg RUC members as somehow viant.
”He said IRA men were products largely of Catholic upbrggs, and “the fluence of relign has to a large extent shaped that animosy or antipathy towards the gay muny”. There was no real tolerance towards gays then.
NORTHERN IRELAND REJECTS GAY MARRIAGE FOR 5TH TIME
”Meanwhile Mr O’Doherty, a bomb-maker who later turned his back on vlence, said he knew of two republins who he spected of havg been beaten prison by supposed ras for havg gay liaisons – somethg which was “thought at that time to be unthkably unrepublin” said: “Volunteers wh homosexual proclivi would have been regard as extreme secury risks, open to blackmail by secury forc and liable to bee rmers. “There was total tolerance of homosexuals and homosexualy, wh the nomenclature mon of the time beg ‘nancy boys’, ‘sissi’ and so on... You’d nearly thk the IRA never knew about child abe or rape by volunteers, never md homosexualy.
”Mr Dudgeon likewise said he believed the IRA had attacked people for “sexual mismeanours” cludg beg gay – but that this was hard to fd proof for sce the IRA “held no trials and kept no rerds” more general terms he said: “When we were mpaigng for crimalisatn the 1970s we received no support om any polil party.
GAY MARRIAGE NORTHERN IRELAND: CATHOLICS AND UNNISTS BLOCK MOTN
”He also poted to “the adamant refal to accept was possible that Roger Casement was gay or that his diari were not fed by the Brs remas fairly universal republin circl” add: “Kra was often ed by natnalists an anti-gay way suggtg that policians and Brish tablishment figur were g the boys there – Judge Hart said there was no evince of this but the implitn was put about that every gay person pre-1970 Northern Ireland was volved some sort of sordid rg bee that was what gays did. ”It should be noted that is not only republins whose morn-day posn on homosexualy ntrasts wh past paraary UVF-lked PUP now mpaigns on a strong gay rights ticket. But 1997 David Templeton, a Prbyterian mister who had recently been ught posssn of gay pornography by airport secury, was fatally attacked at home Newtownabbey by men wh spike-studd CAIN webse lists his killers as a “non-specific loyalist group”, but some media attribute to the UVF.