Five percent of gays against same-sex marriage in Ireland

New research has found that 5% of LGBT people will not be voting in favour of Ireland’s referendum on same-sex marriage.

A new poll, carried out by GCN (Gay Community News), asked respondents: “Should same-sex marriage be given equal recognition in the Irish Constitution?”

Out of the 1,063 openly gay people polled, 95% agreed that LGBT people should be given equal recognition, while rather surprisingly, five-percent were either against or undecided on the topic.

“There are some commentators in the media recently who identify themselves as gay and claim that a large section of the LGBT community is against same-sex marriage,” said the editor of GCN.

“This survey proves that these commentators do not represent the vast majority of the LGBT community, who wish to be equally recognised and will vote to end constitutional discrimination against lesbian and gay citizens of Ireland,” he added.

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