Anti-gay letters to Oireachtas Justice Committee
Tags: Bigotry, catholic, catholicism, civil partnership, Civil Partnership Bill, civil partnerships, Conservatism, equal rights, equality, marriage equality, religion, religion poisons everything According to Green Party member Ciarán Cuffe on Twitter, the Civil Partnership Bill is due to reach committee stage on 24th March 2010. And some people are durn unhappy about it.
LGBT Noise have sent out the following APB on their Facebook page and mailing list. Get writing!
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The Civil Partnership Bill is currently making its way through the many stages and committees of the Oireachtas. Noise have been informed that the Justice Committee have been inundated with letters from ultra-conservative letter writers expressing opposition to gay people being granted any form of rights. Many conservatives are describing Civil Partnership as being the same as marriage; this is far from true. It lacks a great deal of the rights, responsibilities and protections of marriage. Crucially, it ignores the rights of children being raised in LGBT families and says that LGBT people do not even have families.
The Civil Partnership Bill forces couples to participate in their own discrimination and officially makes LGBT people second-class citizens.
In a week when a staunchly Catholic nation, Mexico, granted marriage equality and parental rights to its gay citizens Ireland is, incredibly, still debating the withholding of rights to its citizens based on sexual identity.
Noise urges you to write to the clerk of the Justice Committee, Mr Alan Guidon alan.guidon@oireachtas.ie before Thursday the 24th of March, expressing your views on Civil Partnership and why it doesn’t go far enough. Tell them we demand equality.
Love and noise,
The Noise Team
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I have been a second class citizen for 50 years, its time it ended. However I dont think we live in a fair society nor do I think any Irish person living in this Country has a voice at all.
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