LGBT Noise Ralley, Saturday 28th May 2008, Gaity Theatre

With Regards the Civil Partnerships Bill LGBT Noise will be organising a rally on Saturday protesting against the move which they argue does not go far enough.

LGBT Noise are holding a Rally for Equality this Saturday to tell the government
we don't want civil partnership. We demand civil marriage. Come and let your
voice be heard. Saturday at 2pm opposite the Gaiety Theatre near Stephens Green Shopping Centre.Tell one, tell all!!

Below is a copy of their Press release on the CPB Heads.

Dear Noisey people,
Below is the text of the press release provided by Noise in response to the sudden publication of the 'Heads of Bill' of the new Civil Partnership Bill 2008. The Heads of Bill can be examined ; http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/General_Scheme_of_Civil_Partnership_Bill
(BEWARE; A convoluted 172 pages in order to to create an up-graded second-class
citizenship)NOISE is disappointed that the government has decided to ignore repeated calls for the lifting of the ban on same-sex marriage and haspressed on with its decision to offer only limited civil partnershiprights to gay and lesbian people.
Says Communications Officer, Eloise Mc Inerney, 'Civil partnershipwill create an unequal and apartheid institution for gay and lesbianpeople. It will continue to treat their relationships as separate andinferior in the eyes of the law and it will not protect the rights ofthe children they are raising. Neither will it offer the constitutional guarantees granted to the family based on marriage. In offering this pale substitute for full marriage, the government are basically saying that gay and lesbian people, and their families, are not full citizens of the Irish republic.'
Over the past 2 years, there has been consistent majority support forlifting the ban on same-sex marriage in Ireland, with recent pollsplacing this support at around
60%. In addition, 86% of people agreethat children raised by gay and lesbian
parents should have the samerights and protections as children raised by
heterosexual parents.Even the government's own Colley report found in 2006 that
marriagewas the only equality option for gay and lesbian families.
The government has been hiding behind a claim that same-sex marriage will
beunconstitutional, but nowhere in the constitution is marriage definedas being
between a man and a woman. It is for the Supreme Court, and not the government,
to decide on matters of constitutionality. Noise calls on the government to lift the ban on same-sex marriagenow, and give gay and lesbian couples and families the same rights asother Irish citizens.

VIA: Noise Press Release 25/6/2008.

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