Posted on 03/01/2015 6:27:23 AM PST by marshmallow
Feb 27 (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic grammar school located near Boston has pulled out of the city's St. Patrick's Day parade in protest over organizers' decision to allow a gay veterans' group to march in next month's event.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary School, which traditionally sends its marching band to the South Boston route, said on Friday it would withdraw following a decision by the Allied War Veteran's Council, the parade's organizers, to admit a group of gay and lesbian veterans called OutVets to participate.
"We can't associate with that," Brother Thomas Dalton, principal of Immaculate Heart of Mary School, said in a phone interview. "It would appear we were condoning it."
For decades the organizers of the New York and Boston St. Patrick's Day parades excluded openly gay groups from participating in their events, contending that allowing them to march would violate the beliefs of their Catholic faith, which holds that homosexual acts are immoral.
Both parades' major sponsors, Diageo PLC's Guinness in New York and Boston Beer Co's Sam Adams in Boston, withdrew their support last year over the issue.
Boston parade organizers said they would admit the OutVets group because its members were veterans. New York's parade this year opted to allow a group of gay and lesbian employees of NBC Universal, the unit of Comcast Corp that broadcasts the event, to participate.
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Excellent. Maintain your standards.
bravo
+1
Kids shouldn’t have to see flamboyant faggies.
Hope other normal groups drop out of this prance parade.
What if they gave a Queer St. Patrick’s Day Parade...and no one came? I’d like to see the sponsors (Boston Beer and Guinness) lose a lot of money over their promoting sodomy.
I agree...it would be nice to see a “big parade” of 20 or so mincers... with no one “lining” the route.
“Hope other normal groups drop out of this prance parade.”
Praying that more normal groups drop out.
Same here. Remain faithful to the truth. May God Bless the Remnant.
Homosexual veterans? I’d bet but 1 in 10 has a DD-214.
Queers: "We are the 2.3%". 07/15/2014 192kb.pdf
That survey is getting kinda long in the tooth. If any FReeper knows of a more recent survey, please let me know. Thanks.
I stopped drinking Sam Adams last year because of this. Anyone know what beers still sponsored the parade??
not that anyone cares, but Heineken was all I drank. After last year, how they and even Guinness stood up for the gays, neither brand has been purchased since.
Precisely! As long as there is money to be had.. . the show will go on. No attendees. . .no parade. It is that simple.
BTTT for this school.
Every darn year it's something new.
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