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Entries Tagged as 'Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes'

Iona Institute asking leading questions again

January 12th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Iona Institute, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes

Image via Wikipedia It’s 2009 and time for another survey from the Iona Institute. A new phone survey is reported in today’s Irish Times but I can’t find any questions on same sex relationships in Patsy McGarry’s report but I’m sure they are there or David Quinn will be inferring them throughout the day when […]

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Unasked for advice

November 11th, 2008 · 17 Comments · David Quinn, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Same Sex Partnerships

…to those campaigning for Civil Partnership legislation/Civil Marriage, be they individuals or groups … – Stop appearing in audiences of shows like Questions and Answers – especially when the panel is not balanced with representation of someone from the lesbian and gay/equality and human rights sector. RTE need to be taught a lesson and ‘rent […]

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Car Crashes, divorce and militant gay lobbies…

July 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Same Sex Partnerships

From Thursday’s Irish Times Letters page… FF and Civil Partnership Bill Madam, – David Carroll’s vitriolic attack on Senator Jim Walsh (July 1st, 2008) was a good demonstration of liberal intolerance. Senator Walsh is absolutely right to be concerned about the proposed Civil Partnerships Bill and his concern mirror that of a majority of the […]

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Wexford FF politics and Civil Partnership

July 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments · David Quinn, Homophobia, Irish Politics, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes, Same Sex Partnerships

Senator Jim Walsh has been busy this week putting forward a motion to his parliamentary party concerning the proposed Civil Partnership legislation going too far. He has been busy saying he wasn’t being homophobic and saying his party colleagues who supported the motion (25 of them) weren’t homophobic. It’s clear from the silence that not […]

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All Human life is there…

September 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Religion, Religious Right Dressed up as research institutes

Thanks to Frank @ Cedar Lounge for letting me know that I’ll be missing Fr. John Harvey’s visit to the RDS Dublin tomorrow to speak at the Human Life International Conference. The talk I’ll be missing whilst doing some very queer shopping checking out all the dykes in Liffey Valley is entitled Homosexuality: Helping the […]

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