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EXPLAER: IRELAND’S WORLD-FIRST POPULAR VOTE ON GAY MARRIAGE

Ireland is due to hold the world’s first popular vote to ci whether gay and lbian upl should be allowed to marry. * gay marriage ireland poll *

Ireland holds world's first popular vote to ci if gay and lbian upl n marry. Y proponents say vote is about givg gay, lbian upl same rights as heterosexuals.

IRELAND BE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE

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Ireland is due to hold the world’s first popular vote to ci whether gay and lbian upl should be allowed to marry. The Y proponents say that is simply about givg gay and lbian upl the same nstutnal rights as heterosexual upl.

Legislatn passed 2010 gave siar but not equal rights and rponsibili to gay and lbian upl.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world. * gay marriage ireland poll *

The poll may be about rights, but is also evably a tt to ci if Irish people regnize and accept homosexualy and that two men, or two women, n love each other wh the same tensy and passn as a heterosexual uple and whether the state should bls their love.

At a eper level, the referendum is about whether Irish people n accept that gay and lbian upl have sex which is as pleasurable and fulfillg as is for heterosexual upl and that, when homosexual upl have children, those children are not harmed by havg two parents of the same genr. The qutn this Friday is to what extent this cultural inty embrac liberal, smopolan attus to beg gay. Mr Varadkar revealed publilly durg the referendum mpaign that he was gay.

“I would like to have seen that the rights of gay and lbian men and women uld have been rpected whout changg the fn of marriage. Senator Filma Healy Eam, who also mpaigned for a No vote, said the referendum “for me was never anti-gay”.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

She said she had swched her vote om Y to No simply bee of her ncerns around nstutnal change and s effect on a child’s No advocy group Mothers and Fathers Matter exprsed “warm ngratulatns” to the Y si but said that one three Irish people - the vote rat - were not reprented by the polil mpaigner and Fianna Fáil Senator Averil Power said gay mpaigners who told their stori on the doorsteps of voters had “helped to change Ireland for all of ”, not jt the gay said she had seen many of them rced to tears by the experience they had durg the mpaign.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY MARRIAGE IRELAND POLL

7 openly gay lears have served as heads of state. Latvian print Edgars Rkēvičs is the latt .

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