Huge murals urging people in Ireland to vote ‘Yes’ in Friday’s historic vote on same-sex marriage are getting worldwide attention.
Joe Caslin’s murals show two same-sex couples embracing each other. One of the murals measures nearly 14 metres in height along the side of a 15th century castle in a rural area in the west of Ireland.
Caslin told The Irish Times that he wanted to “show love.”
“That’s essentially what it is, the equality that people should have no matter what sort of a relationship they’re in,” he told the newspaper.
The other, on the side of a four-storey building on South Great George’s Street in downtown Dublin, shows two men embracing each other. There was debate about whether the mural should be considered an illegal ad, but a petition signed by 44,275 people convinced the city council not to take down the image.
The murals have been featured in international newspapers in the days leading up to the referendum.
Irish voters are expected to decide on Friday whether or not the country should legalize same-sex marriage and could be the first country in the world to decide the legalize same-sex marriage by referendum.
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