Posted on 03/02/2016 2:55:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
Mayor Bill de Blasio is ending a two-year boycott of the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day parade now that it has fully dropped its longstanding ban on allowing gay and lesbian groups to march under their own banners.
De Blasio, a first-term Democrat, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that for the first time he will take part in the parade along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on St. Patrick's Day, March 17. He skipped the parade in 2014, when no gay groups were allowed to openly march, and he skipped again last year, when only one small lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group was permitted.
"The St. Patrick's Day Parade is a New York City tradition, but for years Irish LGBT New Yorkers could not show their pride," de Blasio told the AP a day ahead of a planned formal announcement. "Finally, they can celebrate their heritage by marching in a parade that now represents progress and equality." ...
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Is Bishop Dolan going to wear a rainbow stole with complimentary garments?
Suppose they give a parade, and nobody goes?
I really don’t understand the NYC gay ban. After all, aren’t most New York Irish queerer than a three-dollar bill?
Public fellatio rules!
Public sodomy rules!
Bring your children (...please!)
Dude!
My Irish background came thru NY
and NO!
We ain’t queer.
Wanna fight about it?
More o’ them thar New York Values ...
Disgusting.
He’ll probably be late,because he smokes a lot of pot with his family at nite.
Heritage?? Since when in a mental anomaly equivalent to heritage?
Speaking for myself only, I find your comment ... and by extension you, yourself ... contemptible.
he won’t march, he’ll sashay.
Post #11 - I find your comment ... and by extension you, yourself ... contemptible.
Agreed.
St Patrick's ?
NO WAY
The local bishop is very upset?
Another institution ruined by the left.
You’ll bark in Hell for that one, scumbag.
What does sodomy have to do with St. Patrick’s Day ?
In case it’s not clear, I was talking to de Blasio.
In a PINK Kilt?
Bishop Dolan could wear the Irish flag considering the Irish people voted for “gay marriage”.
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