For that, albeit incidentally, is what it is going to be.
If SSM went through in the Republic, then it would never happen in Northern Ireland.
Unionists, and especially the type that is still dominant despite some loss to the other kind at the General Election, take very little interest in the rest of the United Kingdom.
But they are know all about the Republic. They have to. In order to guarantee that, on as many points as possible, they are not it, or anything like it.
On Friday, the voters of the Republic will decide whether or not to add same-sex marriage to that list of points of difference, a difference to be preserved at all costs in the Six Counties, with those costs themselves sent to Her Majesty's Treasury.
As I say, they will decide that incidentally. But even so.
Well worth thinking about.
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