It comes as no surprise. What else would you expect from a people whose greatest achievements and contribution to the world have been leprechauns, blarney and Guinness?

It's sad really, when you think about it in those terms.

Before I read the comments I made a small bet with myself that if anyone agreed with the medieval and obscurantist rubbish perpetrated in this article it would be runner and leo lane. Sure enough, there they are, parading their bigoted ignorance for all the world to read.

Fortunately, they, like the author of this worthless article, are a rapidly diminishing minority. Like Abbott they are the last bastions of discredited bigotry and like Abbott they will be swept aside by the tides of history.

Thank you David.
I endorse your article.

Let us stick to facts.

"More than half the Irish have voted for homosexual marriage,...."

Not so, more than half of those that bothered to vote, voted "Yes", that is not half the Irish people nor even, possibly, half of those eligible to vote.

No one knows what the majority thought, they may support the idea, may reject it, the only sure thing is that they didn't bother to vote.

Every time I see this argument - that marriage equality will deny children heterosexual parents - and where there is the opportunity, I ask, "how does that follow? What has legal recognition of relationships got to do with family structures?"

I never ever get an answer.

It seems that it is really a figleaf for this view expressed, with more honesty, I have to say, by runner:

".. promoting perversion reason goes out the window mainly because people want their own immoral lifestyles condoned. It makes them comfortable in sin. Be encouraged and read the end of the book. All ends well for those who have repented and turned from their immorality. Others will have their moments of glee but it certainly wont end well for them. "

It's just bigotry, pure and simple. I use the term "bigot" carefully; a bigot is someone who holds a negative attitude towards a group with no sound basis for doing so. I have never, ever, heard a good argument for homophobic attitudes, with the fallback being "I don't like it, it's icky" (like the runner comment above) and/or "my holy book says so", and or "I just think so".

I also have to ask why this sort of thing gets published. A range of views is great. We should have them for a healthy society. But constant repetition of a non-argument in the service of denying people justice; one has to wonder whether that warrants a platform.

In Ireland, as in Australia, it is only Honoured Priests who have sufficient God Given Morality Credits to bugger kids

- and get away with it.

Thankyou Church Lawyers

Cardinal Icky McPoota