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Originally Posted by Damien
There was a good point in The Guardian yesterday asking if the rights of a minority should be approved via the majority in a referendum. I thought it was a good point. The reason Ireland needed to do this is because it required a constitutional change which has to be approved via a referendum.
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Good advertisement for us having a codified constitution so that the government of the day can't just change it on a whim. *Cough* Lisbon *cough*.
This is definitely historic though. This is a country where homosexuality was illegal until 22 years ago and has made a
bunch of progress.
I suspect there'll be a lot of LGBT Irish painting the town rainbow colours tonight.