Catholic school pulls out of Boston Saint Patrick’s Day Parade after gay group approved

lifesitenews.com ^ | 02/26/2015 | n/a

[massmike]

Immaculate Heart of Mary School of Still River, MA has withdrawn its marching band and float of Saint Patrick from this year’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade after learning that a small homosexual activist group will be allowed to march while publicly identifying its homosexuality.

The school is compelled by the teachings of the Catholic Church to pull out. According to the Principal, Brother Thomas Dalton, “Catholics are forbidden to sponsor or even participate in an event which openly promotes unnatural and immoral behavior. The Church will never accept nor condone same sex marriage and the homosexual life style.”

For 25 years the school has participated in the parade dedicated to Saint Patrick and believes that to have a float with his representation leading a group openly promoting and proud of its homosexual identity would draw down the ire of this great patron of the Boston Archdiocese. “Saint Patrick stands with Saint Paul in condemning the sin of sodomy,” stated Brother Dalton. “The name of Saint Patrick should be dropped from the parade as he would have nothing to do with the likes of it today.”

The director of the Band, Br. Peter Bracket stated, “All the Band members and their parents—although greatly disappointed in not being able to march—are fully supportive of the School’s decision. We have to remain loyal to Church teachings which states in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Saint John Paul II, that ‘homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity’ and ‘are intrinsically disordered…Under no circumstances can they be approved.’ (#2357)”

[Let's Roll]

Because they are a tiny percent of the population but they are trying to convince the rest of us they are in the majority.

[CharlesOConnell]

The South, unsurprisingly, is the only region where fewer than 50 percent of all those polled endorse same-sex marriage. This is not going to hold. Earlier this year, a Gallup poll revealed that 80 percent of young Americans believe in same-sex marriage. Polling within Louis­iana, one of the most socially conservative and religiously observant states, where a solid but shrinking majority opposes gay marriage, found that half of voters thirty and under favor gay marriage. … “If these kids find out that you are against gay marriage, they won’t listen to a thing you have to say about anything.” – Christian and Countercultural by Rod Dreher | Articles | First Things

[easternsky]

Give us a list and we can start calling and let them know

[Arthur McGowan]

I’m confused. In New York, a gay group is in the parade, and the Cardinal Archbishop of New York is the Grand Marshal.

I know Pope Francis will clear up any confusion about this!

[SECURE AMERICA]

Thank you for standing with God.........

[freedom6178]

Glad to hear they want to keep their kids away from these perverts.

[9thLife]

What does homosexuality have to do with St. Patrick’s Day? Why do they have to force EVERYTHING to have to talk about them?

Same tactics as muslims forming "rings of peace" around synagogues. It's aggression.

There can be no question that modern jihadis have read Alinsky. And that includes obama.

[kearnyirish2]

The AOH in NYC were able to keep them out for so long because many pipe bands had made it clear they wouldn’t participate if the deviants were in it; I don’t know if those bands still take that position.

[DiogenesLamp]

Good for them. Eventually it will become nothing but another sicko parade, the sort they won't want the public to see. (Link is to Zombietime and contains nothing objectionable unless you go beyond the warning.)

[DiogenesLamp]

The South, unsurprisingly, is the only region where fewer than 50 percent of all those polled endorse same-sex marriage. This is not going to hold. Earlier this year, a Gallup poll revealed that 80 percent of young Americans believe in same-sex marriage. Polling within Louis­iana, one of the most socially conservative and religiously observant states, where a solid but shrinking majority opposes gay marriage, found that half of voters thirty and under favor gay marriage. … “If these kids find out that you are against gay marriage, they won’t listen to a thing you have to say about anything.” – Christian and Countercultural by Rod Dreher | Articles | First Things

The changing opinions are the result of the endless propaganda streams emanating out of the News (New York) and Entertainment (Los Angeles) Industries. With numerous Homosexual News Readers and an astonishingly high number of Homosexual actors and Characters in what passes for entertainment T.V. nowadays, it is no surprise that this propaganda is having the intended effect of normalizing this behavior.

They do not accurately portray Homosexuals in entertainment media. They portray a cleaned up, Atypical "normalized" Monogamous version of elegant/funny people who keep all their homosexuality off the screen.

If they showed the truth, we would not be now seeing increased acceptance of this behavior.

[MSF BU]

It is south of Fort Devens, in Harvard. In the old days you could actually hear the ordinance being fired on the south ranges. Nowadays, not so much.

[Mears]

Thanks——I love Harvard,beautiful town.

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