Irish Soccer Player Donal og Cusack Comes Out

Today's column will be about homosexuality so I must issue a warning that some readers will find some of its contents immoral, unnatural and downright disgusting. I know I do. What, for example, could be more immoral, unnatural and downright disgusting than this statement? "Sexual relations outside marriage constituted a violation of bodily integrity, and homosexuality did so in a particularly grave manner as being against the order of nature and a perversion of the biological function of the sexual organs . . . it was important that the state should do all in its power to discourage the spread of homosexuality and in particular should not appear by the laws to condone sexual practices calculated to undermine the institutions of marriage and the family." That choice piece of hate speech was issued from one Rory O'Hanlon SC in 1980. At the time Mr O'Hanlon was representing the State as it defended the legal ban on homosexuality being challenged in the High Court by David Norris. He was not giving his own personal opinion, he was giving that of the State. Or, in other words, us. This was being said in the name of the people of Ireland. Full Story from Independent.ie: http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/cusacks-giant-leap-forward-1923991.html

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