Family Seen on Vote No Posters "Appalled" to be Associated with Campaign

Two high-profile comedians have thrown their weight behind the campaign for a Yes vote in the upcoming Marriage Equality referendum.

Earlier this week Manchester funny-man Jason Manford shared a snap of one of the No campaign posters, saying:

"The person who designed this poster had a mother and a father and look how much of an ignorant prick they turned out to be!

#voteyesireland

#childrendeservelove"

On Tuesday evening, Australian comedian Adam Hills followed suit, adding some background information on the happy "natural" family seen on the No side's campaign materials.

The full post reads:

So, there is a Marriage Equality vote in Ireland at the moment, and it has all got pretty heated. Posters like these have been circulated. Unfortunately, the image in the poster is a stock photo - which means anyone can buy it and use it for whatever purpose they so desire. As it turns out, the people in this photo are friends of my wife, and are appalled that their faces are being used, without their permission, to promote something they wholeheartedly disagree with. And yet there is nothing they can do about it. Regardless of how you feel about the vote - what a weird, horrible, ridiculous world we live in, in which a loving, caring, open-minded family unit can be used to advertise the very opposite of what that particular family unit believes. If any of my Irish friends see these posters, just know this - the beautiful family on that poster is all for Marriage Equality.

So, there is a Marriage Equality vote in Ireland at the moment, and it has all got pretty heated. Posters like these... Posted by Adam Hills Official Page on Tuesday, 5 May 2015