Gay Marriage Debate

Comments  7

• Anthony Maher 9 Jul, 01:15

  Hi,
  
  Firstly, I would like to thank the Today FM team for bringing this blatant bigotry to their prime time listeners...
  
  Brenda is a mother herself and its her kids I feel sorry for, if one of them is gay/lesbian how could they ever tell someone like her, their own mother... the one person a child should be able to turn to!
  
  Brenda is completely entitled to her own opinion, no matter how narrow minded it is... but to present such a poorly researched, blood boiling arguement in a national paper is downright insulting...
  
  Thank you once again, looking forward to hearing Panti this evening...
  
  Anthony

• Ronan O'Riordan 9 Jul, 02:15

  I think Mrs Powers argument is fatally flawed. Her point that marriage is for the protection of unions with the production of children at its heart is discriminatory and, critically, does NOT serve the interests of all children. She fails to acknowledge that same sex unions DO have BIOLOGICAL children and this is where adoption rights become relevant. Should the biological parent in a same sex union pass away or become rendered incapable of delivering care the other parent in the union who may have raised the child for a significant period has no legal right to care for the child!!! Is this what Mrs Power is so against? Would she rather these children would lose BOTH parents??!!!
  I am ashamed at her stance as an Irish citizen.
  Recent disastrous reports on the treatment of children in this country have jaded some peoples views on what is actually in childrens best interest, and tis is out of fear. A respectable stance but not a laudabil one if it fails the children of this country again!!!
  Finally I would like to add that I, as a gay Irish man, am having my civil liberties debated by the government of this country. This fact in and of its self is demeaning and most disheartening. Seperate is NEVER equal!
  

• paul 9 Jul, 03:37

  brenda a traditional marriage would make you a stay at home mum making stew!

• caroline 9 Jul, 06:27

  as a lawyer I find it deeply embarrassing that Brenda Power could have trained as a barrister yet have so little comprehension of equality and basic human rights.

• John 9 Jul, 07:24

  Thought Panti had great points and still cant believe Brenda Power is allowed write such garbage. she should be ashamed of herself and apoligise.

• Simon Murphy 9 Jul, 09:16

  If a child of a gay couple experiences difficulties from classmates because their parents are gay then that is society's problem. It is unacceptable to discriminate against gay couples regarding marriage just because society is homophobic. Most gay couple don't have or want children so I don't understand why Brenda Power is obsessing over this. Civil Marriage is a legal contract that must not be denied to consenting adults based on their sexuality.

• maeve 15 Jul, 07:45

  I think Brenda is right! We have lost sight of our moral values in Ireland. Gay people should not be hated but why should a christian country change all of their values because some groups call it 'discrimination'. It's not discrimination, they are our values and values should be brought into everyones daily lives. Marriage is between a man and a woman, why do people who believes this (people from the beginning of time) get discrimination thrown at them. Where is the country going to stop, people call themselves catholics/cristians but yet they are not acting these values and beliefs. We as people should love and respect others but that does not mean changing a wrong act into a right act.