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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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It does though beg why the rights of the minority should be prevented by the majority if it doesn't effect the majority.
You're talking about a country that only decriminalised homosexuality about 22 years ago