I am going to vote yes and I am entirely comfortable with my choice because we are not voting on whether the Catholic Church’s take on divorce is correct or not or on whether divorce is a morally acceptable choice or not but simply about whether civil society should have a system in place that allows individuals a free choice about how to regulate their personal affairs.
Their property and parental affairs are already catered for by the process of legal separation and the silly guff about divorce somehow affecting the children or society as a whole (any more than separation and the underlying causes of it does) is patently just that, silly guff.
All that’s going to happen, if (hopefully when) divorce is finally accepted here, is that the components of a separated couple who choose to can remarry – that this mildly dilutes the perceived solidity of marriage as we have it now is a given but it is equally, actually even more so, a given that the institute of marriage as we have it now is as rickety as it is elsewhere, starry-eyed perceptions aside.