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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]yes, an eerie quiet from conservative american catholics.

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Not quiet at all - Irish clergy drove the church off a cliff their with their predominantly gay sex scandals.[/quote]

LOLOLOL. Are you saying that the overwhelming Yes vote was because of the sex scandals? Have you ever been to Ireland, or do you actually know any Irish people?

I've spent extensive time there and still have many friends there. This had nothing, zip, zero to do with any sex scandals. Thousands of emigrant youth didn't fly home to vote to express their feelings about the Catholic Church. This was, if it was a referendum on anything except marriage equality, an expression that young Irish people are interested in the future and a change from the status quo.  They wanted something to believe in and care about. So much energy, love, and creativity went into the Yes campaign. It's enough to make even a wizened old cynic like me dab a tear. The kids are all right .

The No side wasn't louder because it didn't have the numbers and knew it. The polling on this has been clear since the start. The demographic and cultural shift was too overwhelming; faced with an extremely energetic and clever Yes campaign, they weakly waved a few signs and then sighed and gave up. [/quote]

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