I'm voting "No".

My recent foray into the so called  debate on the issue of the forthcoming referendum seeking to redefine the notion of marriage from being the union for life of a consenting adult  male and consenting adult female to essentially being between two consenting adults irrespective of their sex has revealed to me the  intimidating ,threatening and ugly nature of the movement advocating the change in the Constitutional position.
For daring to say that I believed that a more balanced rearing would be given where a father of the male sex and a mother of the female sex were involved in parenting a child I was labelled with the ageist tag,told I was ignorant and a bully and threatened that society had no place for people like me.
I am supposed to be medieval to boot and as for being a Catholic,it is clear to me that that camp share the views  of ISIS in the main and would gladly throw the followers of the Cross overboard to drown  given a chance.
I am beginning to think that the spoiled child syndrome affecting the young single  children of China ,who are so pampered and used to getting their own way that they think they can do what they want and actually despise the traditions of their parents and ancestors is well rooted here too and that many over educated,spoiled and pampered youths of a certain age actively despise their own traditions and take pleasure in denigrating those who reared them and think nothing of ruthlessly stabbing them in the heart,as it were.
Some of the protagonists who attacked me seem have a deep rooted hatred of heterosexuals and blame us solely for all the ills in the world,including death by suicide of some homosexual people.
I would turn this on its head and suggest that many suicides of people my age could be rooted in the uncaring and aggressive discarding of our traditions and beliefs by a brash ,spoilt and uncaring cohort of spoiled and overdamanding young adults who are encouraged in their actions by a media that is out of sync with broader society.
AS for the politicians,hey are united in their view that supporting anything but traditional values is the mother lode to elective success and are both creating and hopping on the hysterical screeching of the homosexual brigade in the hope  that will garner another term of power.
This is nothing new for a blueshirt /laboue coalition as it was de rigeur for the same combination in the eighties who turned brother against brother in the plethora of constitutional elections in order to deflect attention from the horrible economic conditions and the depopulation of the country caused by economic emigration. Nothing changes.
Except that the coalitions  answer to massive under performance by a Government Minister is to announce that he/she or someone belonging to them is homosexual and to hide behind this relevation to protect them from justified criticism.After all to criticise a homosexual in any guise is homophobic and people are cowed into silence by the same tactics and the same cohort of people that orally abused and threatened me when I dared propose an opposing view.
Look ,all the politicians and the trendies are in favour of this gender balance thingy in order to have a more and better balance of gendered people running the county.Supposed to be a great thing.
Suggest that the same thing ought apply in the basic unit of society and you are a homophobe,ignorant,a bully .an out of touch auld fogey ,medieval heterosexual religious nut who has no place in society
.And all the unions,including the Gardai,and sportspeople  who have enough to do reaching the pinnacle of their games of choice and most especially providers of social media ,who are all  subsidised by the taxes of all the people of Ireland  ,should  keep their noses out of the politics of this issue and be thankful they are getting their pockets lined in these times of hardship .in large part out of the taxes squeezed from the plain people of Ireland .