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Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2024-07-08): That year, a national referendum asked the country whether to amend the constitution to permit same-sex marriage. The English text said, "Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex." However, the Irish-language text could be read as saying, "A couple may, whether they are men or women, make a contract of marriage in accordance with law." [...] Proponents of marriage equality argue that same-sex couples should have the same rights as heterosexual couples. Advocates assert that all people should have access to marriage's legal benefits. Therefore, the denial of marriage equality and, thus, access to marriage’s legal benefits is inherently discriminatory. [...] Research shows that the election of LGBTQ+ legislators plays a significant role in passing marriage equality bills. One study found that national legislatures with openly identifying LGBTQ+ lawmakers are fourteen times more likely to have marriage equality or civil partnerships than those without such members.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2023-12-07): The government simultaneously launched an eight-week public consultation period, from March 15 to June 28, to improve the government’s response to religiously motivated hate crimes at places of worship. Consultation results were not published at year’s end. [...] The Northern Ireland Humanists group continued to publicly call for the repeal of the region’s blasphemy laws, passed in 1891 and 1888. All major political parties supported repeal except for the Democratic Unionist Party, the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, which stated, "Anti-discrimination and hate crime legislation did not provide adequate protection for Christians." [...] In July, the Christian Institute, a nondenominational Christian charity dedicated to the "furtherance and promotion of the Christian religion in the United Kingdom," criticized the hate crime legislation review and said the report would propose extending the definition of hate crime to apply to religious practitioners opposed to same-sex marriage ceremonies. In September, the Northern Ireland Office confirmed that legislation passed in July providing for religious same-sex marriages also included equality law protections, which shield religious bodies and officiants from charges of discrimination against same-sex couples should they refuse to officiate.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2019-06-19): "The ongoing denial of marriage equality to people in Northern Ireland is an embarrassing stain on the UK’s LGBT rights record and cannot be allowed to continue." According to YouGov polling for PinkNews, 70% of people in the UK agreed that same-sex marriage should be allowed in Northern Ireland, up from 65% last year. [...] During a vote in November 2015, Northern Ireland’s Stormont Assembly members supported same-sex marriage by a majority of 53 votes to 52.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2021-01-08): Ireland stands out as a truly unique case because, on the one hand, it held four consecutive randomly selected citizens' assemblies, and on the other hand, some of those processes produced major political outcomes through three successful referendums; no other country shows such a record. Following the deliberations of the Convention on the Constitution (CotC), bringing together 66 randomly selected citizens and 33 politicians, the 2015 referendum on marriage equality changed the Constitution and legalized same-sex marriage; following the recommendations of the Irish Citizens' Assembly (ICA), involving 99 citizens, the 2018 referendum produced another constitutional change legalizing abortion. [...] Elkink, J. A., Farrell, D. M., Reidy, T., and Suiter, J. (2017). Understanding the 2015 marriage referendum in Ireland: context, campaign, and conservative Ireland. Irish Political Stud. 32, 361–381. doi: 10.1080/07907184.2016.1197209 [...] Suiter, J., Farrell, D. M., and O'Malley, E. (2016b). When do deliberative citizens change their opinions? Evidence from the Irish citizens' assembly. Int. Political Sci. Rev. 37, 198–212. doi: 10.1177/0192512114544068
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2023-03-21): Discrimination: The constitution declares all persons equal under the law and prohibits discrimination by state and nonstate actors based on gender, marital status, or political opinion. The law does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender expression, or sex characteristics and does not recognize LGBTQI+ individuals, couples, or their families. [...] LGBTQI+ advocates pointed to structural problems, such as gender identity document requirements and general societal discrimination, that created internal displacement, discrimination, sexual exploitation, and child abuse among members of the LGBTQI+ community. [...] Restrictions of Freedom of Expression, Association, or Peaceful Assembly: There were no confirmed or reported restrictions on those speaking out on LGBTQI+ issues.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Discrimination: The constitution declared all persons equal under the law and prohibited discrimination by state and nonstate actors based on gender, marital status, or political opinion. The law did not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender expression, or sex characteristics and did not recognize LGBTQI+ individuals, couples, or their families. [...] LGBTQI+ advocates pointed to structural problems, such as gender-identity document requirements and general societal discrimination, that created internal displacement, discrimination, sexual exploitation, and child abuse among members of the LGBTQI+ community. [...] Restrictions of Freedom of Expression, Association, or Peaceful Assembly: There were no laws or restrictions on freedom of expression, association, or peaceful assembly regarding LGBTQI+ matters.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2016-01-01): There was hence large agreement that opening the institution of marriage to same-sex couples "signals clearly that same-sex couple relationships should be treated with fairness and dignity."139 [...] [S]i impone invece la risposta affermativa sia perché il diritto a contrarre matrimonio appartiene al novero dei diritti fondamentali, sia perché opinare diversamente comporterebbe negare il rispetto della dignità della persona e delle sue scelte di vita. [...] [T]o fully implement the rights granted under Article 2 and Article 3 of Directive 2004/38/EC not only to different sex spouses, but also to the registered partner, member of the household and the partner, including same-sex couples recognized by a Member State, irrespective of nationality and without prejudice to their non-recognition in civil law by another Member State, on the basis of the principles of mutual recognition, equality, non-discrimination, dignity, and private and family life.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2023-02-14): - Document and map violence against LBQ+ couples to better understand how and in what couples LBQ+ people are punished for appearing in public together, and how this violates their rights not only as LGBT people, but also their rights to freedom of assembly and association. [...] Social and legal struggles to decriminalize homosexuality, repeal colonial era anti-sodomy laws, and legalize marriage equality for queer couples are not prerequisites for obtaining parental rights, including the rights to adopt and to access fertility treatment, which this report found to be highly important to LBQ+ interviewees. Research and policy guidance produced by queer collectives themselves offer direction in overcoming the presumed normative order of LBQ+ rights. Research on the Lived Experiences of LBQ Women in Kenya[585]—a country that continues to criminalize same-sex conduct—calls on the government and public health officials to "inform LBQ women about the different pathways to starting a family as LBQ+ women in Kenya," regardless of the status of same-sex conduct decriminalization efforts. The lives of LBQ+ people around the world would be markedly improved by the existence of LBQ+-centered reproductive education; the removal of discriminatory couples-only adoption laws in Japan; the creation of functioning reproductive health services in Argentina that allow LBQ+ people of all genders to avail themselves of the country’s model fertility laws; and campaigns to destigmatize adoption in general in Zimbabwe. None of these require or should be predicated on the decriminalization of same-sex conduct.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2024-08-27): Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have faced legal proscription for hundreds of years, initially under religious laws, in particular those imposed by the Abrahamic faiths, and later under secular legal codes, often drawing heavily on the theological traditions that preceded them. Legal codes first implemented in Europe proliferated during the colonial period. As the European powers expanded their control and influence over much of the world, they took their legal systems and the laws criminalising LGBT people with them, imposing them over diverse indigenous traditions where same-sex activity and gender diversity did not always carry the same social or religious taboo. [...] The timeline also follows how this legacy of criminalisation has increasingly been undone, highlighting important milestones in the global, century-long struggle to achieve justice and equality before the law for LGBT people. While the fight for LGBT equality is far from complete, the distance travelled, even in the last 50 years, is reason to be hopeful. Despite the long history of the criminalisation of LGBT people, the long arc of history bends inexorably toward justice.
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2018-03-13): Homosexual persons are to be fully respected in their human dignity [505] and encouraged to follow God's plan with particular attention in the exercise of chastity[506]. This duty calling for respect does not justify the legitimization of behaviour that is not consistent with moral law, even less does it justify the recognition of a right to marriage between persons of the same sex and its being considered equivalent to the family[507]. "If, from the legal standpoint, marriage between a man and a woman were to be considered just one possible form of marriage, the concept of marriage would undergo a radical transformation, with grave detriment to the common good. By putting homosexual unions on a legal plane analogous to that of marriage and the family, the State acts arbitrarily and in contradiction with its duties"[508]. [...] Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons (3 June 2003) 8 228 228*
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2020-02-13): We, and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane, the first two men to have a civil partnership in Northern Ireland, sought a judicial review of the ban on same-sex marriage in 2015. We are waiting on a judgment on that. If the high court rules in our favour, it will ensure that this new Westminster legislation allowing it cannot later be overturned by a future Northern Ireland assembly. [...] There’s been a shift. I talk to a lot of people in this community who are extremely religious. People have realised that it’s no dilution of their Catholicism to support same-sex marriage. The DUP claim to speak for Northern Ireland, when they don’t. On social issues like marriage equality and abortion, we can seem like a backwater. That’s not the case. [...] Equal measures: a history of LGBTQ+ rights in Northern Ireland
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2023-12-07): Under Secretary for Political Affairs [...] During the election campaign, many of the country’s senior religious leaders urged voters to cast ballots in the upcoming election. [...] Christian and Muslim leaders continued to fear that allowing civil marriages would threaten their ability to administer their own confessional affairs. According to the online news site Al-Monitor, "Secular and feminist movements have highlighted the importance of civil marriage as the door to a personal status law."
Claim: Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality for LGBT couples. (IrishCentral, 2018-01-28)
Evidence (2015-05-28): Lots of experts were surprised that "Catholic Ireland" voted in gay marriage. They haven't been paying attention. Last weekend, Ireland overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing same-sex marriage, the first country in the world to do so by popular vote. The reaction invariably included some degree of shock that a country about 85 percent Roman Catholic would embrace marriage equality. Well, the Irish Catholics aren't alone. Much to the Vatican's evident chagrin, majorities of Catholics all over the West support same-sex marriage, often at higher rates than other Christian denominations. In majority-Protestant Northern Ireland, the provincial Assembly has refused to join the rest of the United Kingdom in allowing same-sex marriage — most recently in January — and First Minister Peter Robinson recently agreed with his wife that homosexuality is "an abomination."
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2020-03-23): The Michael Davitt GAC has responded that while consultations are ongoing, no decision has been made or agreed with any other agency regarding the use of their grounds.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-02-27): Michael Davitt – His role in GAA and shaping society today
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2016-03-05): Michael Davitt (1950-2005) was a key figure in the literary movement associated with the poetry magazine Innti, which he established as a student broadsheet with his fellow students Gabriel Rosenstock and Con Ó Drisceoil at University College Cork in 1970. Important influences during his UCC years were the creative trio of Seán Ó Ríordáin (see the entry in this series for 1971), Seán Ó Tuama, poet and professor of Irish, and the composer Seán Ó Riada, all of whom were exploring and experimenting with inherited art forms. Davitt, born and raised in Cork city, was himself a charismatic man, and he took the Irish language and Irish poetry out of classrooms and lecture halls and into the pubs and clubs of youth culture. For Davitt and many of his peers from urban English-speaking backgrounds, commitment to Irish was a conscious countercultural move, in tune with youth movements and civil-rights politics.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-09-26): Michael Davitt's GAC Swatragh (Irish: CLG Míceal Mhic Dhaíbheid Suaitreach) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Swatragh, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of the Derry GAA and currently caters for Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. The club is named after republican patriot and revolutionary Michael Davitt. [...] History [edit]In 1946 John McCormack proposed the idea of forming a Gaelic football club in Swatragh. Other founder members included Patsy Collins, Jim McMullan, John Eddie Friel and James McGurk. They choose to name the club after Michael Davitt, because he had given Irish Land League speeches in Swatragh in the late 19th century.[1] It also marked 100 years since Davitt's birth. The club colours were initially red and white, but in 1949 the present green and white colours were adopted.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2021-03-26): Remembering the legacy of Mayo's Michael Davitt THURSDAY, March 25, marked the 175th anniversary of the birth of Land League founder Michael Davitt. [...] Davitt, according to Wikipedia, was brought up in the closed world of a poor Irish immigrant community, with strong nationalist feelings and a deep hatred of landlordism.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-08-26): Davitts GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parish of Kilvine in south County Mayo, Ireland.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2024-09-25): Works [edit]- Cashman, D. B.; Davitt, Michael (1876). The Life of Michael Davitt: Founder of the National Land League. Glasgow: R. & T. Washbourne. OCLC 11246528. Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2019. [...] - Davitt, Michael (1882). . Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson. OCLC 22251637. [...] - "Gurteen celebrates Michael Davitt at the spot where a social revolution begun". The Sligo Champion. 21 June 2006. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2018-05-11): Fenian and Land League founder Michael Davitt (1846–1906) was born on 25 March in Straide, Co. Mayo. In 1850 his family's landlord evicted them from their small farm, and they emigrated to Haslingden, an industrial town in Lancashire, England. At age eleven, when he was working in a cotton mill, a machine crushed his right arm, and it was later amputated. Ironically this injury allowed him to resume formal schooling, and in 1861 he became a post office clerk. In 1865 Davitt, like many young Irishmen in Lancashire, joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), or Fenians. He rose quickly through the ranks and in February 1867 helped to lead the ill-conceived raid on Chester Castle. Appointed IRB organizing secretary for England and Scotland in 1868, during the next two years Davitt traveled clandestinely around Britain organizing arms shipments to Ireland. In 1870 the authorities arrested and tried Davitt for arms trafficking. A jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (1998-07-20): Michael Davitt (born March 25, 1846, Straide, County Mayo, Ire.—died May 31, 1906, Dublin) was the founder of the Irish Land League (1879), which organized resistance to absentee landlordism and sought to relieve the poverty of the tenant farmers by securing fixity of tenure, fair rent, and free sale of the tenant’s interest.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2022-02-27): On 23 March 2020, the Irish News published an article, "Co Derry GAA club offers ground as coronavirus field hospital", and quoted a spokesperson from Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club (GAC) in Swatragh: "We would be happy for our premises to be used as a field hospital in the event that its [sic] needed in the impending onslaught from the coronavirus." [...] In a letter (23 March 2020) on the club’s Facebook page, the Michael Davitt GAC Chairman, Cormac McCormack, responded directly to the article, stating that "no contact has yet been made with relevant authorities with regards to any proposals". The letter says that the Club has not ruled out the potential use of the grounds in such a way, and that a consultation is ongoing with the local community and relevant Health Authorities, to establish how it may support the NHS during the COVID-19 crisis. [...] According to Cormac McCormack, the Michael Davitt GAC Chairman, the club contacted the Irish News to find contacts within the health service "to explore various different options" for the club to help address the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic. However, no decision has been made about how the club may contribute to efforts to support the NHS during the COVID-19 crisis.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2020-06-30): Mr Michael Davitt has received the following letter from Mr Richard C O’Connor, Manager of the Hibernian Bank, San Francisco, one of the best known and most respected Irishmen in that city. Mr O’Connor, who is a native of Listowel, Co Kerry, where many of his relatives still live, has always been a strenuous and generous supporter of the Irish cause:— [...] MY DEAR MR DAVITT,
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
Evidence (2022-03-07): 1987: History was made at Michael Davitt Sportsgrounds, Leeds, when a ladies’ Gaelic football match was played there for the first time. Manchester’s Tir Connail Gaels team formed in the previous year met the newly formed Leeds Irish Centre Team who gave an encouraging performance before going under by a single point 2-5 to 1-7.
Claim: Michael Davitt Gaelic Athletic Club offered as a coronavirus field hospital. (Irish News, 2020-03-23)
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