j0ekerr: You know nobody (except for the usual suspects) made much of a fuss when that law was passed here. And this coming from a country that has been traditionally even MORE catholic than yours.
However it was an enforced religion. Once it wasn't compulsory, a lot of people punted the church. In Ireland you're religious by choice, or peer presure.
adaliabooks: If my experience at school was anything to go by, it was more religion by laziness than by choice or peer pressure. People were just Catholic because that was easy, didn't require you to think about things or have an opinion that differed from the rest of the herd...
I'm impressed with Ireland though, it would be hard to imagine a referendum like that not succeeding in any developed western country (well, maybe some American states.. :/) but considering our background there was a chance it could have failed and it's nice to know Ireland's throwing off the shackles of Catholicism.
The other good thing about these things is that they bring the loonies who oppose them out of the woodwork so you can avoid them more easily,
like this guy, who quite frankly sounds like he should be hung, drawn and quartered...
Read what you linked to, and I can feel their idiocy attempting to infect me, like pond scum being rubbed all over my brain.
And yes, you'd be right. The key word in what you said regarding countries is "developed", and there are many places in this fucked up country that are anything but.
One of the few bits of solace I can cling to regarding that is that the indoctrination effect will eventually be diminished as the imbecilic hatemongers are gradually phased out of existence by the passage of time and the inevitability of death.
EBToriginal: Due to the Duggars I feel 100% justified in labeling anyone who crusades against GLBTQ rights in the name of protecting children, is in fact actually fucking said children.
Both the silent and the talkie episodes of Aeon Flux?
My thought it that anyone who's clinging to their particular bit of madness so utterly is hiding from themselves, laboring under pathetic delusion as a way to blind themselves, rather than viewing the world and their own thoughts in reality.
According to the Amazon entry, the set contains both the original set of Liquid TV-shown Aeon Flux shorts as well as the ones in the later dedicated series.
Linking to it
here.