In mid-November a gay commentator said that same-sex marriage is a ‘bare-faced state power grab’, and not ‘some warm fluffy equality bunny’.
Paddy Manning, writing in the Irish Daily Mirror, said that with gay marriage the state remakes the institution as: ‘an anything-goes irrelevant partnership agreement between adults’. In addition, same-sex marriage: ‘asks us to ignore reality and children’s rights’.
He was taking part in a newspaper debate after it was revealed the Republic of Ireland is to hold a referendum on the issue in 2015.
