Trending Irish company turns anti-gay pamphlets into confetti for LGBT weddings

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Daintree Paper's 'Shred of Decency' campaign sells confetti made from '100% recycled lies'
By Lauren O'Neil, CBC News

Of all the many uses for confetti — showering award show winners, stuffing envelopes, jazzing up nail polish — subverting homophobic propaganda may be the most creative and powerful one we've seen to date.

In the run-up to Ireland's May 22 marriage equality referendum (citizens will vote on whether or not to legalize same-sex marriage within the country), opponents have been distributing anti-LGBT leaflets in an attempt to win support from voters.

Containing unfounded statements suggesting that gay people "contract cancers earlier in life" and that children adopted by same-sex couples are "50 times more likely to die of injuries inflicted on them," many of the pamphlets have upset the people they've been given to in Dublin.

Some on Twitter are destroying the anti-gay leaflets they receive, but Irish paper company Daintree had a better idea — create confetti out of them to be used at gay weddings.

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[shenmue]

1. Huzzah!

[brer cat]

2. I love it!

100% recycled lies.

[nightscanner59]

3. I'd like to shred some "christian" pamphlets I found...

The ultimate irony of a coffee shop in a midsized Arizona town I was contracted for work was hilariously yet sickeningly self-contradictory. It was a new coffee snob joint that had opened, thought I'd give them a whirl. First indicator I was turned off by was the big screen teevee blasting all clientele with Faux Noize. Line was long, so I looked for reading material of which the seating area was mostly devoid, exception of some bigoted christian pamphlets. One was obsessively revolting anti-abortion pamphlet complete with bloody fetus pictures. Another was speculative about DNA testing of the unborn for the "gay gene" and how wonderful it would be to eradicate the world of gays if such was to be found.
I was so dumbstruck by the irony of one idiotic publication deriding the sin of abortion laying right next to another heralding it's selective application that when the barista indicated it was my turn for service...
I walked out and never returned.

[Zorra]

4. heehee! nt