{"id":1291,"date":"2014-12-04T01:51:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2014-12-04T01:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:51:38","slug":"jumping-the-broom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/jumping-the-broom\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping the Broom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1296\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jumping-the-Broom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jumping-the-Broom.jpg\" alt=\"US couple jumping the broom\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jumping-the-Broom.jpg 600w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jumping-the-Broom-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomtomarry.org\/story\/entry\/jumping-the-broom-after-a-decade-of-love\">Image from Freedom to Marry.org &#8211; Click the link to read this couples story &#8211; (Im sure they wont mind!)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1294\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Equal-in-Ireland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Equal-in-Ireland.jpg\" alt=\"It will be good to actually vote YES to a government proposal next year! Being pro Marraige Equality does not make me less Catholic or less pro family...\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Equal-in-Ireland.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Equal-in-Ireland-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Equal-in-Ireland-16x16.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It will be good to actually vote YES to a government proposal next year! Being pro Marraige Equality does not make me less Catholic or less pro family&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Men of cloth forbidden to love<br \/>\nHave of love between others much to say<br \/>\nOnly a girl and a boy, they think, should enjoy<br \/>\nLove, and marriage is what they say.<\/p>\n<p>They frown upon unmarried mothers<br \/>\nAnd couples, unmarried, who live in sin<br \/>\nSinful in their eyes, their love they despise<br \/>\nKnow nothing of the couples hearts within.<\/p>\n<p>Silent about the little children that suffered<br \/>\nInnocent little girls and boys<br \/>\nWhen men of the cloth used them having no worth<br \/>\nAbused them as if they were but sexual toys.<\/p>\n<p>How can it be a sin to love each other<br \/>\nThough church marriage you have not gone through?<br \/>\nIs a family not a family whether married or not?<br \/>\nClergyman: why is it condemned by you?<\/p>\n<p>How is gay marriage a threat to the family?<br \/>\nThey wouldn&#8217;t marry anyway<br \/>\nAnd those who did, and their sexuality hid<br \/>\nHad unhappy marriages, one of them being gay.<\/p>\n<p>For only gay folk will have gay marriage<br \/>\nThough being a straight red blooded man all my life<br \/>\nI think it would be fun if a tradition was begun<br \/>\nThat as well as a husband each woman had in their bed a wife!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1295\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Yes-Equality.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Yes-Equality.png\" alt=\"Yes Equality - Register to Vote!\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"legalizing%20same-sex marriage http:\/\/www.straightpeopleforgaymarriage.com\/\">Straight People for Gay Marraige<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men of cloth forbidden to love Have of love between others much to say Only a girl and a boy, they think, should enjoy Love, and marriage is what they say. They frown upon unmarried mothers And couples, unmarried, who live in sin Sinful in their eyes, their love they &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,53,55,130],"tags":[1460,1457,1461,156,1455,1454,1462,1459,1458,1452,1453,1463,1456,1451],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-church-scandals","category-civil-rights","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-politics","tag-anna-nolan","tag-catholics-for-gay-rights","tag-ellen-de-generes","tag-family","tag-gay-marraige","tag-gay-rights","tag-jumping-the-broom","tag-lesbian","tag-lesbos","tag-lgbt","tag-rainbow","tag-straight-people-for-gay-marraige","tag-traditional-marraige","tag-yes-equality","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-kP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1029,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/for-hand-in-marraige-a-castle-given-the-clononey-castle-story-and-anne-boleyn\/","url_meta":{"origin":1291,"position":0},"title":"For Hand In Marraige A Castle Given &#8211; The Clononey Castle Story and Anne Boleyn","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd April 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"He saught her hand in marraige long, But she scorned each advance, He knew not another wench she would be, So he made respectable his romance, When Aragons Catherine was deposed Who until then wife had been, Her marraige declared null and void in defiance of the Pope, Henry made\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Banagher&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Banagher","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/banagher\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Clononey Castle - a Mac Coughlan castle given by Henry VIII to Thomas Boleyn in return for Anne Boleyns hand in marraige","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clononey-Castle-a-Mac-Coughlan-castle-given-by-Henry-VIII-to-Thomas-Boleyn-in-return-for-Anne-Boleyns-hand-in-marraige.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clononey-Castle-a-Mac-Coughlan-castle-given-by-Henry-VIII-to-Thomas-Boleyn-in-return-for-Anne-Boleyns-hand-in-marraige.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clononey-Castle-a-Mac-Coughlan-castle-given-by-Henry-VIII-to-Thomas-Boleyn-in-return-for-Anne-Boleyns-hand-in-marraige.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Clononey-Castle-a-Mac-Coughlan-castle-given-by-Henry-VIII-to-Thomas-Boleyn-in-return-for-Anne-Boleyns-hand-in-marraige.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1797,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/they-came-they-voted-ireland-changed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1291,"position":1},"title":"They Came, They Voted, Ireland Changed","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"23rd May 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"They came by boat, they came by plane They went by busses, I got the train They registered to vote who never voted before I voted, having never missed the chance to, in Tullamore The rainbow seen before over Clifden town I wondered was it a good omen as on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil Rights&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil Rights","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/civil-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"There was a rainbow over the town of Clidfen in Connemara when I visited it a couple of days ago, I wondered was it a good omen for the same sex marraige referendum, and it seems that it was as it has passed with room to spare. The youth, not known for voting, came back in planes to vote from abroad, such is the depth of feeling on the matter...","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rainbow-Over-Clifden.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rainbow-Over-Clifden.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rainbow-Over-Clifden.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rainbow-Over-Clifden.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rainbow-Over-Clifden.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1626,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/why-im-voting-yes-for-gay-marriage-thank-god-for-the-gays-for-reminding-us-what-marriage-and-life-is-about\/","url_meta":{"origin":1291,"position":2},"title":"Why Im voting YES for Gay Marriage &#8211; Thank God for the Gays for reminding us what Marriage and Life is About","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th April 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Gays at last are getting people off their back, and in one of the few government initiatives I'm supporting along with wind farms, I'm happy to be behind the equality referendum. 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