"Over a third of the population of Ireland are bigots then Steve?"
No they are not - over one third of the population are still under the influence of the Christian Church, which, as with the pregnancy termination affair, pulled out all the stops to prevent the constitution from being chaged - brainwashing by fundamentalist mystics.
Ten years ago, this magnificent result would ot have been possible and twenty years ago it would never have even taken place.
In the case of the termination vote, politicians were threatened with excommunication if they voted for the bill, despite its wishy-washy limitations.
This was their attitude then - it was preferable that women should die rather than go against the church's rulings.
I seem to remember that the argument then that the church had no say in Government policy - this result has been heralded as an end to the bad old days.
Incidentally - Ireland has been congratulated by the United Nations for its stance on Gay Marriage - what next - Nobel Peace Prize!!
Nice letter in the Irish Times this morning saying the writer felt as they must have felt when the Berlin Wall fell
Jim Carroll