The Pagan Federation of Ireland’s response to a homophobic American couple requesting a wedding...

[Photographer]

http://theoutmost.com/news/pagan-group-tells-american-homophobes-fuck-off/

In a Facebook message to the Pagan Federation Ireland, an American named Sarah writes that she and her fiance, who are planning to marry and honeymoon in Ireland, are Odinists (an ‘indigenous form of heathen religion practised by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes’) seeking “similarly- minded” clergy to conduct the service.

She goes on to state that the couple would prefer “someone who only performs heterosexual ceremonies and refrains from marrying those of mixed races.”

The Pagan Federation Ireland‘s response was short, sweet and fantastic: ‘Hello Sarah, we are most happy to report that none of our clergy subscribe to your views on mixed race or gay marriage, and so we cannot assist you in your upcoming visit to Ireland,’ reads the response, before adding, ‘Fuck off. Yours very sincerely, everyone at Pagan Federation Ireland.’

/snip



Gotta love the Irish.

[pkdu]

1. This is feckin awesome. Nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. Freaking Awesome!

[Maeve]

3. Éire go brách! eom

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[KamaAina]

7. Érie? The city in Pennsylvania?

[Maeve]

8. Oy! Got the accent mark right, spelling wrong! Fixed

Thanks--I was worried about the accent mark and missed the letter transposition--Éire is Ireland, eire is burden.

[allan01]

4. ding

[2naSalit]

5. That is awesome!!

[Photographer]

9. Sorry I missed Marr's post. Has me curious.

[Person 2713]

10. Couple is from the U.S.

Sigh

[Hekate]

11. This Irish American says: very cool

[Jack Rabbit]

12. That is a beautiful reply

/s/
Jack Rabbit,
Proud white father of two Eurasian sons

[Takket]

13. I'll raise a pint of Guiness to that!!!!!! Slaite!!!!!!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. I wouldn't have thought there are many Odinists in Ireland anyway

since it's a Germanic, not Celtic, religion. It wouldn't be "taking up the religion of my ancestors" for many of them (a few Viking settlements there, but not, I think, an ethnicity that is distinct in that country). As for Sarah, I guess she and her fiance are white supremacists with a tendency to Nazism and ideas of a Germanic master race. I hope she never finds anyone who will cooperate with them.

[DonCoquixote]

15. A lot of self described "Odinists"

Got into it via Neo nazis who liked it because it eliminated the need to admit Christianity had a Jewish God, however, there are many Asatru (aka Norse pagans) who would gladly take these two and tell them how full of shit they were in much more brutal terms than "fuck off."

[Wounded Bear]

17. Was wondering about that...

kind of like Catholics without all the baggage, I guess.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Well played! nt

[bluedigger]

18. Their follow up reply was pretty good, too.

A post on the Conaidhm Paganach (PFI) Facebook page left little doubt about the sincerity of the original response. ‘Pagan Federation Ireland operates a zero tolerance approach to racism and homophobia, both of which were abundantly clea rin the initial communication,’ reads the post.

‘Your values, as stated here on your website – https://odinia.org/what-are-values/– are incompatible with ours. If your religious beliefs or practices incorporate either racism or homophobia, then you will not find a home here.

‘As you seem to wish to make some sort of political issue of this,’ the reply continues, ‘might we suggest the following: for a proven donation of €10 to any Irish Pagan organisation…we will send you a signed copy of the statement on headed notepaper. Laminated if you wish.We will also send you permission to distribute the letter, in its complete form only, as widely as you wish.

‘The €10 will cover two copies of the letter, one of which we will have framed and put on the office wall, lest we ever forget.’
http://theoutmost.com/news/pagan-group-tells-american-homophobes-fuck-off/

[ladyVet]

19. Oh, snap!

Hell, I'd send them ten euros (I think that's how much it was) to do that.

From what I remember from my pagan days, Odinists are big in prisons and areas where white supremacists hang out. Not really pagan at all.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Wow, they're the full anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, pro-Hitler loony toons

The racism and homophobia are only the beginning ...

[spanone]

21. K&R...

[suffragette]

22. Well done and to the point

[awoke_in_2003]

23. K&R

as a side note, just a few weeks ago I found out my maternal grandmother's mother was full blooded Irish, so I am at least 1/8 Irish.