tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post1898819430388250766..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: "Yes" To Same-Sex Marriage In IrelandPoetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-38218864220281665722015-05-29T16:50:04.779+00:002015-05-29T16:50:04.779+00:00Yes, both you and Mary Kenny have a valid point, n...Yes, both you and Mary Kenny have a valid point, no doubt. I also feel it quite ironic, however I imagine many voters felt that it was a step towards egalitarianism of a kind. Roll on socialism when all will be free to cohabit with whomever they wish, in whatever fashion they choose.Janet Surmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05185354285574590622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-35393903701874314322015-05-29T04:51:08.610+00:002015-05-29T04:51:08.610+00:00Wry comment from Mary Kenny in the Irish Independe...Wry comment from Mary Kenny in the Irish Independent (25 May0:<br />"The most amusing aspect, for me, was observing old Lefties who themselves wouldn't touch wedlock with a barge-pole (how well I remember those conversations in the 1970s when the DE RIGEUR Leftie position was that marriage was a bourgeois repressive institution which Engels had proved was merely a vehicle for the transmission of capitalist property) suddenly telling us that marriage was the measure of all good."<br />She has a point even if that wasn't the point. When gay couples split up they can now sue each other for their share of their property and automatically inherit each orther's property if one dies without making a will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com