Posted on 03/17/2014 7:07:56 AM PDT by NYer
This is the celebration of a saint, not one's gender identification. Makes me sick.
Gerald Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzgerald, after all...
They give a whole new meaning to head on a beer ...
I don’t know, it seems every commercial brew gets leaned on.
Good grief! Keep the politics OUT!
Am I wrong in thinking that the parade and its contents are a private affair and not a government event?....................
I’ve wonder if this decision was made in Ireland or in the USA. Unfortunate. I’d hope the main office in Ireland would not do this.
Are there any out there?
GOOD!
They're just using the parade for political purposes and not to honor the Irish or any saint.
Prediction: The St. Patrick’s Day in NYC WILL be take place next year, as always.
This NONSENSE will fail.
I certainly support the St. Pat’s parade organizers right to choose and refuse participants but maybe the activists can argue that the parade is on public streets.
“Then let them lean back.”
That’s the point, they may not. First Sam Adams and now Guiness give in. And some time ago, it was shown brews like Miller lent their name to the gay events. Sure, sounds good to say they should stick to principles.
Well if thats the case then I shall never drink another pint of Guiness.
NYer I like to pint put the following observation from the great E B White. St Patrick and his devotees take over New York. Others are envious I think. A holy man taking over their gay friendly city
The play, ‘wicked’, I believe, has defused the power of evil in that character, but she is the embodiment of what happens whe goodness attempts existence in an area where evil has encroached
Homosexuals are welcome in the parade, indeed, in the church, but not the behavior and not a celebration of it
Be glad the ancient order of Hibernians and the parade organizers have with the courts have held this at bay in Manhattan. Not so in surrounding suburbs. Mayor DeBlasio is attending in Queens today as their parae is gay celebratory the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on this, but the mayor thinks they’re wrong and is vocal about that. He doesn’t celebrate prolifers views toward the court.
“I mention these merely to show that New York is peculiarly constructed to absorb almost anything that comes along (whether a thousand-foot liner out of the East or a twenty-thousand-man convention out of the West) without inflicting the event on its inhabitants; so that ever event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul. In most metropolises, small and large, the choice is often not with the individual at all. He is thrown to the Lions. The Lions are overwhelming; the event is unavoidable. A cornice falls, and it hits ever citizen on the head, every last man in town. I sometimes think the only event that hits every New Yorker on the head is the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, which is fairly penetrating — the Irish are a hard race to tune out, and they have the police force right in the family.[…]
—From E.B. White’s “Here Is New York,” published in 1949.
You apply for a parade permit and that allows you to use the street for a time for your event...............
Why would the Homos fail? They haven’t failed anywhere else. They are winning on every avenue. For Christ’s sake they even have main stream Protestant denominations endorsing a blatant sin of Homosexual activity!
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