Sex, Politics and Religion – How We Won Marriage in Ireland and the USA
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13th April, 2016, Fairsay Conference, Oxford 2016 Dr Grainne Healy Ireland, Thalia Zepatos USA – Sex, Politics & Religion: How we won marriage equality in Ireland and America 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_Xl6kCUUI
GAZE Film of the day of the win
Winning Marriage in the US
State Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendments & Laws
WV
CTMA
NJDEMD
WA
CA
ID*
NVUT*
AZ
MT
WY
CO
NM
TX
OK*
KS
NE*
SD*
ND*
MN
IA
MO
AR*
LA*
WI
IL IN
MI*
MS AL* GA*
FL
TN
KY*NC
SC*
VA*
OH
PA
NY
ME
RI
VT
NH
WA
OR
MT
CO
AZ
TX*
MNWIWI*
OH*
PA
ME
FL*States with Anti-Relationship Recognition Constitutional Amendments (20 states) Alabama (2006), Arkansas (2004), Florida (2008), Georgia (2004), Idaho (2006), Kansas (2005), Kentucky (2004), Louisiana (2004), Michigan (2004), Nebraska (2000), North Carolina (2012), North Dakota (2004), Ohio (2004), Oklahoma (2004), South Carolina (2006), South Dakota (2006), Texas (2005, Utah (2004), Virginia (2006), Wisconsin (2006)
AK
HI
*states where language goes beyond just marriage and affects other legal relationships, such as civil unions or domestic partnerships
States with Anti-Marriage Laws (35 states) (includes above lists minus Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon): Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wyoming
Updated: November 8, 2012
States with Anti-Marriage Constitutional Amendments (10 states): Alaska (1998), Arizona (2008), California (2008), Colorado (2006), Missouri (2004), Mississippi (2004), Montana (2004), Nevada (2002), Oregon (2004), Tennessee (2006),
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Winning in the Courts
State Legislative Victories
Winning State Referenda
Oregon: Yes on 36
2004 Campaign Messages
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We Must Remember That What Motivates Our Base Is Very Different
EqualityDiscrimination
It’s just rightJUSTICE
Benefits RightsResponsibilities
Fairness Dignity
Fair
Basic
Historic
It’s time
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Split Sample: Why do couples get married?
Couples like me Same-sex couples0
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20
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40
50
60
70
80
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42
72
36
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For rights and benefitsFor love and commitmentDon't know
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Why Marriage Matters
Conversation Campaigns & Long-Form Conversations
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But where did the campaign for marriage equality in Ireland begin?
Katherine Zappone & Ann Louise Gilligan, married 2003 – High court case 2004 & KAL initiative
Marriage Equality – launched 2008 ‘Seeking civil marriage equality for same-sex couples’
A referendum? Huh! Never! Having to ask everyone in Ireland for permission to marry the person you love! That would be funny -
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=B211IE0D20140711&p=sinead%27s+hand
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Vision from Values
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We are family, children, parents, grandparents, team mates … 1.1 million booklets
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How far did the Irish Marriage Referendum Campaign Travel?In terms of reach, there were an estimated 1 billion global impressions generated
from 467,323 Twitter mentions by 384,002 users in the week leading up to voting day. Conversations surrounding the Irish Marriage Referendum were had in all four corners of the world. As you can see from the map below, noise was concentrated in neighbouring countries
(UK, Spain, France and Germany) and countries with strong Irish heritage e.g. North America (east coast in particular), Australia and New Zealand.
Campaign StatisticsLogistics
• 5000 Posters erected across the country• 500,000 badges (TA and YES Badge)• 1.3m household leaflets delivered to 1.1m homes• 465,000 lapel stickers• 1,420,000 flyers• 6300 T-shirts• 800 Hi Viz Vests• 2,300 Tote Bags.• Over 70 groups established around the country• 1 pop up Shop at Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre manned by volunteers• 300 businesses large and small formally joined the campaign.• The Yes bus travelled 11,000 Kilometres, 80 Locations, 26 Counties, 29 days
Social MediaFacebook:• 67k+ likes• 2.8m reach• Average of 2,000 timeline views per dayTwitter• 15k followers• 2k tweets• 155k page views in the last month• 5.7m impressions in the last month• #MarRef – 11.1m ReachYouTube• Over 150 videos on YouTube with almost 1,000,000 viewsInstagram• 7,000 followers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4XFO39It8
Last week of the campaign video – looking back and call to vote!
Videos of appropriate messengers with messages: Pat & Paddy (parents to joan) https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=B211IE0D20140711&p=Paddy+and+Pat+marriage+equality+video Brigid & Paddy (#votewithus) http://www.votewithus.org/video/brighid-paddy/ Male hurling stars (equal playing pitch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y90vxqH3HwU
Mrs Brown (use of comedy) http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/brendan-o-carroll-and-mrs-brown-call-for-yes-vote-1.2191810