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Quick Change

For St. Patrick's Day, New York-based journalist Alan Diamond, 30, wrote a piece for The Advocate about growing up gay in rural Ireland. The experience was, in a word, scary.

But his homeland has shifted, writes Diamond. "Overall, Ireland has made notable transformations from being a country with overwhelmingly conservative views toward LGBTQ+ people to one holding powerfully progressive attitudes in the space of a generation."

I suggest we start sprinkling water from the River Liffey over the Vatican.