Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland this referendum is equality under the Constitution and anything else is extraneous." However, some religious-affiliated groups were in favour of the referendum. In January 2015, the Church of Ireland LGBT group "Changing Attitude Ireland" welcomed the publication of the wording of the Marriage Equality Referendum. Dr Richard O’Leary, the organisation's chair, said that marriage should be "available to couples without distinction as to their sex", just as civil marriage "may be contracted by two persons without distinction as to their race or religion". On 7 May, at a "Changing Attitude Ireland" event, former Archdeacon of Dublin, Gordon Linney said "We
Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark Christopher Beaumont, 23rd Seigneur of Sark Christopher Beaumont is the present Seigneur of Sark in the Channel Islands and a major. He succeeded as Seigneur on 3 July 2016, when his father Michael Beaumont died. On 5 July 2016 the "Sark Newspaper" published an article that listed reasons Sark residents should have doubts about what the Seigneury of the 23rd Seigneur held in store for them. The "Sark Newspaper" reported Sark residents could not know whether Beaumont would re-occupy the Seigneurie, the traditional residence of the Seigneur, even though it is a matter of public record that the elderly former