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okaawhatever

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Fri Apr 17, 2015, 12:35 PM Apr 2015

This Gorgeous, Touching Ad May Help Bring Marriage Equality to Ireland



It's titled:
Marriage Equality: Bring Your Family With You

Ireland’s national referendum on marriage equality is nearly a month away, and polls suggest a supermajority of Irish citizens believes same-sex couples should have a right to marry. The referendum’s organizers, then, don’t really have to convince their fellow citizens that gay people deserve basic rights; they simply have to make sure the enlightened ones show up to vote. In a gorgeous new video titled “Bring Your Family With You,” Irish LGBT advocacy group BeLonG To has found a sweet and surprisingly touching way to nag people into voting:
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This Gorgeous, Touching Ad May Help Bring Marriage Equality to Ireland (Original Post) okaawhatever Apr 2015 OP
K & R Scurrilous Apr 2015 #1
OMG, can we please borrow the Irish ad execs? Daemonaquila Apr 2015 #2
Touching, and nice, thanks. nt Zorra Apr 2015 #3
YES AtomicKitten Apr 2015 #4
That is just beautiful...thank you! Please let us know how it goes, OK? CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2015 #5
Yes! hunter Apr 2015 #6
great ad Liberal_in_LA Apr 2015 #7
 

Daemonaquila

(1,712 posts)
2. OMG, can we please borrow the Irish ad execs?
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 02:10 PM
Apr 2015

We really need more of THIS here, not the current shit that passes for political ads, which might as well be calculated to turn people away.

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