Stop sitting on the fence over gay marriages

Fine Gael really needs to stop sitting on the fence when it comes to gay marriages.

For example, Lucinda Creighton supported the idea as long ago as 2002, but that was long before she married. Fine Gael rallied to denounce Creighton’s views (in public anyway), but their words have not been followed by action.

Fine Gael launched a gay marriage manifesto prior to the 2007 election, but it now welcomes ‘constitutional difficulties’ and ‘what constituents think’ as convenient reasons for not confronting gay marriages.