Posted on 03/18/2015 6:24:03 AM PDT by marshmallow
At the corner of Fifth Avenue and 56th Street, in front of the Prada store, a group called Irish Queers gathered late this morning to protest the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade. Abercrombie & Fitch is also on that block, and cologne from the preppy clothier occasionally wafted onto the sidewalk amid chants of "Let gays march!" Demonstrators were rallying against the parade's policy on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons, as they have done for decades.
And yet for the first time since the parade began in 1762, an LGBT group, OUT@NBCUniversal, is marching openly. OUT@NBCUniversal is the media company's LGBT and straight ally employee group. The Irish Voice broke news of OUT@NBCUniversal's participation this fall and reported that NBC, which has broadcast the parade for years, “was prepared to drop its coverage unless a compromise that resulted in the inclusion of a gay group was brokered" with parade organizers.
For many of the city's LGBTs, especially those who are Irish, the development is more of disappointment than a milestone. They feel OUT@NBCUniversal's participation is a bait-and-switch and still excludes Irish gays. They're incensed because activists who have fought decades for LGBT inclusion weren't invited to participate, they say.
Activists unfurled an emerald green banner with white lettering that read: "Let Irish Gays Into Irish Parade" as the procession began. Several others held another rectangular banner that read "Boycott Homophopbia!" over a rainbow background. "What would Jesus do? Let Irish Gays March Too!" a black-and-white poster asked and answered, while another questioned: "Who says St. Patrick was straight?"
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Just more selfish, look at me I’m gay attention grabbers.
St Patricks Day is NOT about gays or any kind of sex. The gays have tons of Gay Pride Parades—why do they need to encroach on this one? Answer is that their perversions drive them to corrupt everything so that a society totally corrupted will make a nice home for them.
“What would Jesus do?”
Apparently they didn’t read the Biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah.
So “appeasement” doesn’t work, rather it just emboldens your adversaries?
Who wudda thunk that? /s
BRAVO! Bless their heart! Michael Voris on the scandalous Cardinal Dolan’s blessing of open homosexuals marching (under their own banner) in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Pro-lifers under their own banner WERE EXCLUDED from the parade and Dolan had no problem at all with it.
http://www.churchmilitant.tv/platform/?vidID=vort-2015-03-17
I am here stupefied that they are protesting this. They finally got their gay buddies to march and it’s just not good enough.
They will never be satisfied until the St Patrick’s Day Parade becomes the Irish Gay Parade. And I’m sure heretic Dolan will be more than happy to oblige.
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