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E-mailDr Sonja Tiernan (Post, 12 July)?describes my previous letter on civil partnership as a disgrace. I wonder how the doctor would describe half-dressed homosexuals parading through the streets of our capital city, boasting of their sexual orientation? Would the doctor describe it as offensive, or would the doctor join them? The civil partnership bill is a disgrace, as is anyone who had an input into it. I am sure the Green Party had a big role in it, but the Greens do not worry me, for just like the PDs who were pushing the same agenda, they too will soon be wiped out. The one-time largest political party Fianna Fáil will also suffer the same fate, as they have been slowly but surely losing members since Máire Geoghegan-Quinn decriminalised homosexuality against the will of the Irish people and without a Dáil debate. So this time, doctor, you take your medicine.
Noel Gorman
Carrick Road,
Edenderry,
Co Offaly
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Somehow, I feel that Mr Gorman, like other anti-gay commentators, is too obsessed with this issue. If you're not a homosexual, then why do you care so much about our lives, the display of gay bodies, our legal rights or our culture? Perhaps, in the spirit of Sarah Palin/ Tina Fey, you can see gay parades from your house?
You know, our capital city, Mr Gorman, is everybody's capital city, not just your imagined and rather dated version of what Dublin should be. Public celebration by the LGBT community is to be welcomed as a sign of Ireland's social and political progress in this, the 21st century. You are entitled to your viewpoint but so are the rest of us, and I am tired of moralizing conservatives who just don't get that discrimination is wrong and has greatly damaged Irish society over many years. So take it like a man, Mr Gorman, we're here, we're queer - get over it. If you don't like civil partnership, then don't enter one!