Are trans fats and smoking REALLY more dangerous than their behaviors?
Posted on 03/03/2008 11:32:16 AM PST by Marc Tumin
Here’s a shot of Christine Quinn and Bill Thompson--two likely mayoral candidates--at the all-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day parade in Sunnyside yesterday afternoon. Quinn marched behind the parade’s official banner, while Thompson marched behind the flag for the Stonewall Democrats, a major gay Democratic club in the city.
The parade is an annual event, held in response to a larger parade in Manhattan that doesn’t allow gays to march under their own banner. (That parade will be held this year on March 17).
Christine Quinn was one of the grand marshals of the Sunnyside parade, along with newspaper columnist and author Pete Hamill.
Andres Duque, a blogger in Queens, has a longer write up of the parade, including pictures of a protester and one pro-sodomy sign.
Whew. For a second I thought they were talking about Fred.
Oh boy! The one St Pat’s day parade with more people in the parade than are watching it! What a thrill to be seen by all of a few hundred people in a borough with over 2 million!
Are trans fats and smoking REALLY more dangerous than their behaviors?
If I were Irish, I would be pissed that these people have hijacked what is supposed to be a celebration of Irish pride and Irish contributions to the fabric of America. It certainly was never intended to be a political statment on sexual orientation.
I’ve always suspected that the ultimate goal behind the queerification of St. Patrick’s day was to cleverly choose a holiday that would alienate enough people to ultimately have said alienated people demand homosexuals have their own holiday and parade to just leave theirs alone.
Isn’t that Henry Fitzpatrick with his partner Patrick Fitzhenry?
“Stonewall”, “Log Cabin”, “gay” - they certainly have a way of contaminating good old English words don’t they?
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