Referendum an opportunity to right a wrong based on sexual orientation

When the idea of a Marriage Equality Referendum was first mooted a furore erupted indicating the need for legislation for the protection of children.

This was a curious reaction given the horrendous manner in which children had been treated, for decades, in religiously run schools, colleges and institutions without a murmur from anybody by way of protest.

That this same period wreaked of misogyny and other forms of discrimination against the downtrodden and the marginalised did not seem to bother anybody now, is difficult to fathom.