{"id":51251,"date":"2015-05-24T11:34:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/my-congratulations-to-the-people-of-ireland.html"},"modified":"2015-05-24T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:34:37","slug":"my-congratulations-to-the-people-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/my-congratulations-to-the-people-of-ireland.html","title":{"rendered":"My congratulations to the people of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe you have chosen wisely, and compassionately.<\/p>\n<p>Our own constitutional system here in the US very intentionally prevents any sort of national plebiscite on constitutional amendments. That&#39;s quite probably a good thing, net-net, but it does mean we have to fumble around a lot and for a long time before such changes can happen here.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ireland votes overwhelmingly in favor of gay marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/05\/23\/ireland-votes-overwhelmingly-i.html?utm_content=buffer61861&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/zdlApStgLddqNZTdUV5Irr_CeK0-HuuCI4iD6LV7ejufP12UIweO-rQv71S_9UVWYyj02sdfIhXlagjCYzvSfh8ANqYB_NQ70UUcsrPCcg8C6W79a_WLYfljJfYvAL_iWCXyCqThnzNK5HYMKX1JUcp0oQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/05\/23\/ireland-votes-overwhelmingly-i.html?utm_content=buffer61861&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=plus.google.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer'>Ireland votes overwhelmingly in favor of gay marriage<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThough the total isn&#8217;t in, tallies from key constituencies suggest that Ireland&#8217;s referendum on approving same-sex marriage is a win for &#8220;Yes.&#8221; The BBC reports that the result became apparent not l&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Y7ceQcTxbbJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe you have chosen wisely, and compassionately. Our own constitutional system here in the US very intentionally prevents any sort of national plebiscite on constitutional amendments. That&#39;s quite probably a good thing, net-net, but it does mean we have to fumble around a lot and for a long time before such changes can happen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/24\/my-congratulations-to-the-people-of-ireland.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My congratulations to the people of Ireland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52014,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/01\/polka-pubs.html","url_meta":{"origin":51251,"position":0},"title":"Polka-pubs","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Aug-15 12:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, hey, I remember going to that one!(An interesting proxy for population density, too.) 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