Save Ulster From Sodomy

In the late 70s and early 80s Ian Paisley led the Save Ulster From Sodomy campaign, a largely Unionist affair, to prevent the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland. Yesterday the Northern Ireland Assembly voted against the Equal Marriage Bill. Ironically the Unionists were supported and lobbied by their old foes the Catholic Church.

Save Ulster From Sodomy

Billboard alongside Belfast Gay Pride Parade.

Papists rule out rubbers

lobby Paisley, Cardinals campaign,

petition Orange Men,

united by a great and noble aim,

odd bedfellows marry hastily.

Saving Ulster from sodomy again.

Forty-two to fifty

they threw out equality,

ranting, foaming, raving, canting,

Stormont storms. Sodomy,

my protestant Gran informed me,

if not the norm, was once a favoured form

of birth control.

Now, the laws the law

in Catholic France and Spain, but

special conditions pertain,

to a corner of the UK where

Old Women reign.

Gran will turn beneath the turf when I say

the side of the angels is Sinn Fein.

Presbytarians are arseholes so stuff 'em!

Strange unsettling settlement

upsets. Sectarian alliances crystalise

and cave, Form and fold, 

old favours, old grievances, old scores,

exchanged for what religionists crave.

What's not settled at assembly

Is delayed, until we settle.

See you in court.