This Conor. The last time I tuned into the Late Late and Pat the Plank was to watch another set of brothers – Patrick and John Collison. Monsieur Prendergrast will be on along with his brother Daragh to talk about Civil Partnership and how it affects his parents, Ann and Bernadette.
It’s great to see real stories from real people around this area and not people wanting to boost a political career or play political games. I couldn’t personally give a damn about marriage or marriage equality, I’d want equal tax rights and family rights if I was in a longterm relationship with someone of the same sex. It seems that most of the campaigns around the issue of gay rights forget about the kids and rights of and access to the kids. Without going too off the topic, the rights kids have now even if their parents are legally married are crap and the father and mother have different rights too.
Campaigning for gay couples to have a clone of marriage is backwards and it makes me think all these campaigns have never talked to the many people like Conor and his mums or real non-textbook heterosexual couples and their kids and the issues they face.
Disclosure: I’m one of those gays, apparently I’ve been too ambiguous about that. I’ll now go back to protecting the Kylie Wikipedia entry.
One of which gays? The kind who dress in red latex? It won’t make for a tasteful wedding, I’m afraid, Damien 😉
Protect the Kylie Wikipedia how exactly? (Imagining you printing thousands of pages and hoarding it under mattress??)
Disclosure: I’m one of those gays, apparently I’ve been too ambiguous about that.
Indeed. But, isn’t it curious how only gay people have disclosures to make in situations like this. When is the last time you heard, say, Pat Kenny or Michael McDowell or Dermot Ahern warn “I may be biased on this because I am heterosexual”. (Actually, now that I mention it, I think Dermot came close to that in the 1993 debate, and my impression is that he may have felt that made him more qualified to speak on the issue.)
There are very few interviews that would make me even consider tuning in to Pat The Plank on a Friday evening…this, however, might be one of them.
Thanks for the heads up 🙂
You’re gay?
Oh dear. You like boys. I’ll need your rail pass please, hand it over. And don’t even try to give blood.
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I say “I may be biased on this because I am heterosexual†all the time.
It’s the title of my next autobiography.
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