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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple of thousand gay friendly folks flying to cast a ballot did not make these numbers.   The church rolled over because of its weak position.[/quote]

No, but those few thousand were symptomatic of the larger social movement.

I'm not sure why it makes you feel better to blame the church, but it's just not true. This was a social and political statement, not a religious one. [/quote]

It's the death knell of catholic ireland.  [/quote]

It certainly represents a shift to a different kind of religious culture. Given that old-school Irish Catholicism represented some horrific abuses against women and children, I think it's all to the good and the best shot Catholicism has of surviving in some form.

And when I say "children" I'm not talking about gay priests or whatever. My wife went to a Catholic school in Ireland in the 1960s. The nuns regularly beat and belittled the girls, and this was business as usual. I'm glad the world has moved on. [/quote]

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