Top o' the mornin' to ya,Sweet Buns!
Posted on 02/17/2015 1:54:41 PM PST by Citizen Zed
As if it wasn’t controversial enough that a homosexual activist group will be marching under its own banner in the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade led by New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the parade has refused a pro-life group’s request to participate.
When Cardinal Dolan was appointed Grand Marshal of the parade, he excused the decision to allow Out@NBCUniversal to march under their banner by saying they were merely Catholics who were homosexually inclined, rather than advocates for sinful behaviour. The group, however, is an overt promoter of same-sex ‘marriage.’
The controversy heightened January 22, though, when the parade officially rejected a pro-life adoption advocacy group’s application to march this year.
“It’s absolutely been a double-cross,” Dr. Elizabeth Rex, president of the Children First Foundation (CFF), told LifeSiteNews. Not only was the group refused, they had to get a lawyer to pursue the parade committee to find out the result of their application. And even then the parade committee waited until the very last day before the launch of legal action to respond.
When the parade committee announced in September that the homosexual group could march in the 2015 parade, it came with a policy change allowing groups to march under their own banner, which organizers called a “gesture of goodwill” toward the LGBT community.
But the change in policy was supposed to also mean a pro-life group could march, and after many months, and this year’s parade looming, one has yet to be announced.
Rex’s pro-life group first applied to march in the 2015 parade last September, just after the policy change was made known.
Rex, an adjunct bioethics professor for Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, CT, founded CFF in 2001. The group promotes and supports adoption, and sponsored “Choose Life” license plates in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
The controversy with the parade committee’s allowance of the homosexual group to march in the parade was compounded last fall when New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan deviated from his predecessors, who had stood firm in regard to Church teaching as it relates to the Irish Catholic-themed parade, by saying he had no problem with the decision, and in fact, calling it a wise one.
Cardinal Dolan was shortly thereafter named the 2015 grand marshal, causing considerable disappointment among many Catholics.
This is what happens when you allow homosexuals to do what ever they want.
They should have never allowed any banner except Irish and American.
They’ve killed the parade. Don’t even bother with it.
Something is strange, it takes 15 years to get through the list, this group sounds like they just applied and making this a publicity stunt.
As in the days of Noah and Lot. . . .what do you expect. Our country has been given over to a reprobate mindset.
Eggzactly....or better yet, run your own parade.
What a circus.
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What Irish blooded American would even attend! The parade has outlived itself. Time to move on. . . .maybe in another city.
Any comments from the Pope?
Don’t go!
Once upon a time, in a universe far, far away, the homosexuals said they just wanted to be treated fairly and with dignity.
So what’s next for America, guys?
Cardinal Dolan needs to be given the boot for this. But more likely Pope Francis will promote him, the way things have been going.
The AOH has to pull the plug on the parade.
Not going to. If I did it would only be to hurl.... eggs and tomatoes
Well, we already know that Dolan is a POS, and a morbidly obese one at that.
Top o' the mornin' to ya,Sweet Buns!
The AOH is a bunch of Sinn Fein-supporting yellow dog Democrats still living in the nineteenth century.
Don’t forget to take your duck call with you. I bought one after the sodomites attacked Phil Robertson as homophobic.
Not this red blooded Irishman! I've seen one parade in NYC...a couple of years ago.Beautiful day,great fun.
But never again.
Can you imagine anyone in their right mind taking their kid to this parade. We have lost our way in America. It is sad to see it tumble. The children of today will never know the “land of the free” and the “home of the brave”. Last week I found out I have kids in Sunday School that can’t begin to sing the Star Spangled Banner. . . .I was afraid to ask them about the pledge. Needless to say I’m going to work a little history lesson in next Sunday and offer a prize to those who can sing it in a few weeks.
Dolan is an amnesty-pushing, income redistribution, gun grabbing slimebag. It’s who he is.
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