Daily Archives: April 30, 2009

Marriage is an antiquated, failing institution based on inequality and traditional roles.

April 30, 2009
By Stephen
Marriage is an antiquated, failing institution based on inequality and traditional roles.

Image via Wikipedia The above title is a quote from Mark Simpsons article on Gay Marriage on Comment is Free in today’s Guardian. In his article “Gay people don’t need marriage” he argues that gay marriage “zealots” have gotten carried away and need to look at what the majority agree with. As he points out Civil Unions which giver nearly the same rights as marriage, for example Civil Partnerships in the UK, have the backing of “liberal and conservative,...

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Blasphemous Libel

April 30, 2009
By Stephen
Blasphemous Libel

Okay so the whole Blasphemous Libel thing has taken off and is a cluster on Irish Blogs and a lot of people are up in arms about it. Some posts are offensive to some people. As pointed out to me on twitter. As blasphemy is a crime according to the constitution, it has never been so in criminal law. But what is Blasphemy? According to the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (On Reference.com) blasphemy, in religion, words or actions that display...

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Diary of a Serial Canvasser – Part One

April 30, 2009
By Stephen
Diary of a Serial Canvasser – Part One

Image via Wikipedia I mentioned before how busy I was with canvassing and with tomorrow marking 5 weeks to election day I decided to start a bit of a diary on how the canvass is going. Lets start with last Wednesday. I went canvassing for Cllr. John Buttimer (South West Ward) in Deenrock in Togher. I would know a few people in the area here through being involved in the Scouts in Togher. It was a mix of a...

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More EU Election stuff

April 30, 2009
By Stephen
More EU Election stuff

Image via Wikipedia Well I haven’t blogged since Monday and I apologise! But I may make up for it today! So I have found a few things relating to the EU elections. First up is VoteMatch. Now I think its done by the same crowd who had the tool for the London Elections last year. This is based on the European Political Parties rather then the National Parties. You get asked to agree, disagree, neither with 30 statements and...

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