Marriage Equality Referendum: Why I’ll tick that níl box in a pink glitter pen

Marriage is a legal institution with a purpose: Children. For that reason it is the union of a man and a woman and anything else is something else, argues Paddy Manning.

I AM a gay man. I know just how real a gay person’s love is, how deeply we love physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and how great our heartbreak at loss.

I also know that I and a boyfriend, like every other same-sex couple, cannot have our own children. Elton John and his partner didn’t have children: Elton John and a woman did.