19 January 2015

Not a good thing in Ireland


Megan Gibson has a Time article about an Irish government minister:
Just months before Ireland is due to hold a referendum on marriage equality, the country’s minister for health has come out during a radio interview. Leo Varadkar (photo) told RTÉ Radio 1, an Irish radio station, that he was gay, and would be campaigning in support of same-sex marriage in the run up to the referendum in May of 2015.
“It’s not a secret, and it's not something that everyone would necessarily know, but it isn’t something I’ve spoken publicly about before,” he said during the 18 January 2015 interview. “I just kind of want to be honest with people. I don’t want anyone to think that I have a hidden agenda.” He added: “I’d like the referendum to pass, because I’d like to be an equal citizen in my own country, the country in which I happen to be a member of Government, and at the moment I’m not.”
Ireland decriminalized homosexuality twenty-two years ago, and same-sex couples have been able to enter a civil partnership since 2011, but not marry.
Rico says they may have legalized it, but the Irish are not comfortable with it...

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