Quote:
Originally Posted by SluttyShemaleAnna
The divorce requirement clearly betrays the true motives of those writing it. Thye don't want to advance anyone's rights, they are being forced to put the law through as they got destroyed in court and if they didn't comply they would be in breach of European Law, and as Ireland as basically a charity case living on handouts from the EU anyway, they have no choice.
The legislation is similar to that in the UK, requiring lengthy bureaucracy and as many obstacles as possible to try and block as many people as possible from having thier gender recognised in law, and of course the divorce requirement too, can't let one pathetic sop law mess up another can they, gotta make sure that true equality isn't accidentally allowed, gotta keep progress as slow as possible.
|
Anna, you are correct, but I characterize this as a "partial victory" because the juridical recognition of rights, even if obstacles to enactment are put in the way, opens the door to abolishing the obstacles in a far more profound way than in the absence of that juridical recognition. For an analogy, when Blacks the United States were not recognized as full human beings, they could not use the courts to sue as full human beings.