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Absolutely heartbreaking story and the second of its kind this year. Losing somebody you love is one of the most difficult things a person can go through, many don’t cope. To think archaic laws are in place to make it so much harder is infuriating. I wish this woman and her two children well and I feel nothing but anger for what she is unnecessarily going through.
Maybe tragic stories like this will help Australians to mature as a country, they do come across as a very masculine dominant society, there more important issues ,than beating the crap out of buddy /partner on the way back from the pub.
Good point. However Australia’s standing on marriage equality doesnt look like changing an time soon. That might seem unfair but thats the way it is. Im pointing out that the obstacles that woman faced are also faced be many unmarried heterosexual couples.
More heartbreaking that losing the one you love, the mother of your children and tour own home country treating you like you were nothing to her?! I don’t think I would cope with that.
Joe do you spend all day every day watching the journal for lgbt related article so you can tell us gay people how insignificant we are? O wait we all know the answer to that question.
Simple fact is this happened in Australia. Tragic accident. Nothing that anybody in Ireland could do anything about or effect in any way. Are Australians starving to death, waking up in a war torn country, getting murdered for their sexuality or religious beliefs.
Have we families homeless in Ireland , fathers commuting suicide because they can’t provide for their family. Families bereaved by road traffic accidents, families suffering through alcohol, drug addiction, mental health problems.
Just seems a long way to go to find a story about heart break in a country whose laws we can’t effect.
Dear Journal how dare you write a human rights story that that isn’t an issue in Ireland. Do you not know how much it upsets Joe or hare. Now get out your copybook and write out 100 times I must not publish stories that do not have anything to do with Ireland because they upset joe so much that he feels compelled to read them and comments on them even though he has no interest in them whatsoever.
Ok I say this as a gay person -
This isn’t news. Its an emotional sob fest. I’d get the celebrity appeal if she was a public figure -is she? I didn’t see that in the article- but otherwise this is just emotional propaganda.
Honestly I’m gay but I’m getting fed up of the dramatics. Gay marriage isn’t legal in most – or any if i recall- of Australia so she is under no entitlement to fill in wife if she married abroad.
Its sad and my heart goes out to her and her daughter and hopefully this situation changes in the next few years but I just can’t see the “news” in this when we have so bigger injustices THAT WE CAN CHANGE. The death was a tragic accident we cant change, we cant change their laws on gay marriage thats up to them. Tragic but nothing newsworthy.
Unfortunately these kind of stories are required in order to get some momentum moving under the SSM movement in Aussie. Ireland had plenty of sob (but true) stories too during the campaign. Just trying to make gay peoples issues more real and help people understand why SSM is important. Granted its not really relevant to Ireland as we now have ssm but I understand why this is floating around in the media
@pratai, take your head out of your arse and live in the real world, or is your name Paddy Manning or Keith Mills, and you’re so uncomfortable with your own sexuality you feel the need to campaign against marriage equality
I’d have thought that someone with a conic case of having their head stuck up their arse would have more to worry about than commenting on a bereaved wife and parent, and yet here you are.
I would have taught somebody who had lost their wife three weeks ago would have enough to deal with without the added pressure of having their marriage not recognise because of ignorant bigoted people like Tony Kilduff. It truly shows you up for the hateful person you are Tony that you would use somebody’s grief for a cheap shot at marriage equality.
How is she pushing an agenda. She is simply stating the truth. How would you feel if you lost your wife. And the state refused to recognise that she was you’re wife and noting to you. It is you who is pushing your agenda to denying her and her children the right to br a legally recognised family by belittling the situation as if their relationship ment nothing.
Tony, the article doesn’t say who the biological mother if the child is.
Perhaps there could be custody issues, if they are not married and she’s not the biological mother well then this would be of huge and upmost concern to here right now , because in the eyes of the law she would be a unrelated stranger with no rights to custody
@Brian, Tony doesn’t care about the child, all he cares about is his view that homosexuality is yuck, and therefore marriage equality should never be allowed and how dare two people of the same gender raising children anyway
I understand that Brian, that was the only reason that I could come up with myself. Maybe this is something that other gay couples in Australia need to consider before getting children.
Your use of language ” getting children” yet again highlights your disrespect for children. As if they were noting more than a commodity.
Why do you single out gay people Tony? The same would apply where an unmarried heterosexual couple are raising children together and if the biological parent of the children should die and the surviving partner is not a biological parent to the children. But of course in your book Tony it’s different if the parents happen to be gay. Isn’t it true Tony that you voted no in the marriage referendum to ensure that children would remain in such a precarious situation? You are a Wolf in sheep’s clothing pretending that you care about children when the reality is you don’t give a damn about them which you proved in your disgusting commentary here on the Journal about gay people and their children in the run-up to the quality referendum.
And Jimmy …If gay “parents” had any respect for children they wouldn’t put them in any “precarious situation ” in the first place, you complete dunce !
@Tony, so are you saying the same could never happen to a heterosexual couple? That the partner who is the biological parent of their child, dies accidentally and leaves the surviving partner and child in legal limbo? Or do you just need to vent your hatred against LGBT people again?
Tony you are so thick that you can’t see that it was your failed no vote was the only thing that would have put children in the precarious situation of never having the possibility of a constitutionally protected family. To spite all your lies and hate you have lost ya clown.
A supporter of the catholic church’s idea of parenting telling me children are not commodities!. The people who invented commercial surrogacy. The guy that supports the grabbing of children from their mothers bosom and selling them to the highest bidder against the mother’s wishes. Keeping the mothers in a slave labor camp. Tony doesn’t care about those children or their mothers as long as the don’t end up with loving gay parents. Tony you are the embodiment of the Antichrist.
What on earth is the Catholic churches idea of parenting ? Didn’t realise the church had anything to do with children having a mam and Dad . It’s natural for a woman and a man to have a child. Nothing natural about you and your boyfriend having one, that’s just creepy. What are you shìteing about ” grabbing a child from their mothers bosom” ? That’s exactly what your lot does ! As for me being a loser ??? I’m straight remember….lol.
Also Jimmy, you need to learn to write basic English before you call anyone else thick. I’ve seen primary school kids write better than you ! Jimmy the angry dunce ….Lmao .
@ Tony “What on earth is the Catholic churches idea of parenting ?”
So now you are in denial about the Magdalene laundries. You are some stocking of shit lol. Ya know that church that you are always defending. The one that locked up young girls in slave camps known as the Magdalene laundries. Stole their children and sold them to the highest bidder in america all in the name of giving a child a mother and father. None of which is their natural mother or father. Ya know your Idea of parenting. Not like same sex parenting where one parent is the natural parent. But you would have these kids dragged kicking and screaming away from their natural parent just to satisfy your homophobic agenda. Or are you just trying to divert attention away from yourself and your own parenting? I think the truth is probably in the latter. Gay people don’t steal babies out or greed like your church’s idea of parenting. When gay people avail of the Surrogacy everything is above board and voluntary. No woman is forced into doing anything and are usually not the biological mother of the child. But you are to thick to understand the mechanics of that so is no point in explaining them to you.
What is so unnatural about me having children Tony? I do have reproductive organs and they are in full working order. How thick can someone be to think that just because someone is gay that they don’t have reproductive organs. You make a bigger fool of yourself every time you open your mouth lol.
“As for me being a loser ??? I’m straight remember….lol”
You do know that you did lose the quality referendum Tony. Most people in Ireland aren’t living in the Stone Age like you you fool ha ha.
News for you Tony you big dope. Been straight doesn’t make somebody exempt from being a loser how stupid can someone person be. lol. In any case I doubt you’re straight. Science seems to disagree. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-sexual-continuum/201204/are-homophobic-people-really-gay-and-not-accepting-it
By the way you don’t need to keep reminding me that I’m dyslexic which is cheap pathetic shots about It. I know already. Surely you can come up with something better than that. It’s getting old now.
Why don’t you answer Larissa’s question? Sorry. That’s a silly question of me to and to ask. I know the answer. You can’t answer her question because your to tick and incapable of doing so even if you did have an answer.
@Tony, yes, you are as annoying as a tick, and equally worthless, and incapable of answering any questions, but feel free to spread your meaningless hate.
aww, precious Tiddles is trying to insult me again, by misnaming me, tough luck, Tiddles, you hate filled dinosaur, your opinion and comments are completely irrelevant and soon you will be extinct anyway
@ Tony “lol. The irony is killing me!” say Tony as he accuses Larissa of been the most filled person on here followed by insulting Larissa in two different comments. He insults me calling me a dunce and denying the existence of my dyslexia and he displays his ignorance on that subject as late as today as he insults dyslexic people yet again on an article about dyslexia. Is that the best your incapable little mind is able to do? Copy and past your usual childish little cut about my dyslexia while ignoring the points and questions that have been put to. How stupid can one individual will be? LMAO
Try looking up the meaning of the word irony Tony before you use it to make a fool of yourself yet again. The true measure of someone stupidity is when he use words that he doesn’t know the meaning of to describe another person in an insulting manner which in reality describes that person themselves. Now Tony that is true irony. You complete and utter gob site.
You say that you have answered Larissa’s question but she doesn’t like the answer can you tell us where you provided that answer. As it is not showing here. Has it been deleted as it is full of your usual insults rather than addressing the point? While speaking of the points raised you still haven’t addressed any of the points that I have put to. Go on Tony humorous make an attempt to address the pints and answer the questions put to. Highlights for us how you truly are the personification of ignorance yet again.
By the way Tony I think it is a safe bet enough that we can hold our breath about dinosaurs like you and your ridiculous opinion will soon be extinct. Has your overwhelming defeat in the quality referendum taught you anything? It probably hasn’t as you are so thick you are incapable of analysing the results.
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