Congrats Ireland! First country to recognize Same Sex Marriage by Pop Vote!

[Ganoncrotch]

TheFallen said:

ganoncrotch said:

Or be like myself and my wife, married 5 years almost and don't have kids. Our marriage vows never said we promise to pop out some kids as a part of our union. Think a lot of people who want to "protect" marriage should probably at least understand what it is first heh.

Exactly. In your case, your marriage is just as legitimate as a married couple with kids or a non married couple with kids (same sex or otherwise). It's about giving everyone the equal right to choose as they wish.

@bold, Thats the words we voted in basically :) Had a lot of the No people trying to say that gay people already had civil partnerships so they should be happy with that and not want marriage because it was the same.... but when I asked what difference it would make in their eyes if a same sex couple could be married there was no reply.

Most basic way I looked at it was if you considered Marriage as Coke and Civil partnership as Pepsi, as a hetrosexual person being allowed to choose which brand you wanted but if a lgbt person was to ask for a coke they were handed a pepsi and told it was the same thing as coke so they should be happy with it, realistically at the end of the day allowing LGBT couples to enjoy the same choice of what relationship they enter with each other doesn't spoil the taste of my coke at all.  (and as a side note I had to correct the spelling of "coke" about 20 times while writing this paragraph.... because you don't just go up to someone and hand them your coc..... !)