Posted on 07/04/2015 5:34:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
New chairman given okay to allow other LGBT marchers under their own banner
For years, the organizers of New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade, as well as various archbishops, have defended against calls to allow homosexuals to march in the parade under any banner identifying them as a gay group. Last year, bowing to boycott pressure from several sponsors, including Guiness Stout, the parade allowed a group called "Out@NBC Universal" to march. Cardinal Timothy Dolan refused calls to step down as grand marshal in spite of the group's presence.
“I have no trouble with the decision at all,” Cardinal Dolan said of the group's admittance to the parade. “I think the decision is a wise one.”
At the time, the vice chairman of the board that oversees the parade, Quinnipiac University president John Lahey, said organizers wanted the focus to be kept on "the gesture of goodwill we made towards the gay community with the inclusion of OUT@NBCUniversal,” and therefore would not be allowing a pro-life group march under its own banner.
Now, according to a report in the New York Daily News, more good will toward the gay community is on the way with Lahey's appointment as chairman of the board for the parade.
John Dunleavy, the longtime chairman of the group that organizes the high-energy March 17 celebration, was ousted during a board meeting Tuesday night, the Daily News has learned.
Dunleavy, 78, was adamantly against allowing gay groups to participate in the famous Fifth Ave. parade — leading to years of bitter boycotts by many city politicians and LGBT organizations. ...
Lahey was given direct authorization to add a second lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender group to the 253-year-old event—and possibly open the door to other groups in future.
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The Church's affiliation with the parade needs to end.
catholic leadership has cowered and become useless.
Can the Pope, not that he is much good either change the leadership
Shut down the parade. Give it over to the reprobates. Shut down the Boy Scouts—
I predict the rainbow flag flying atop the Vatican within 5 years.
St Patrick’s Gay Parade...
Why even have a Church with different beliefs if you let anyone in?
WTF?
(and I say this as a Catholic)
Question is , will the white house display red, white , and blue colors today like they did for a pathetic rainbow.
yes, grand marshals Henry Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzhenry.........
Dolan has no stomach for the fight or he doesn’t see a need for a fight? I think it’s the latter.
Note he has yet to post a response to the Supreme Court decision (unless I missed it):
http://cardinaldolan.org/index.php/category/blog/
Prancing drama queens out to disrupt the most Catholic of all parades. Celebrating themselves by the way in which they have sex.
What could go wrong?
Because their whole reason for existence is to shove themselves in somebody’s face. Literally.
Parades are going to look like public orgies from now on, not celebrations of saints
How can any Catholic preside over that?
This
Catholics *don’t* preside over that.
The Saint Patricks day parade in Boston doesn’t even barely exist. It consists of a few gay groups and the ever popular politicians and there are virtually no onlookers on the side walks. If you want to see what it looks like today go to www.massresistance.com.
I hope the hypocrite politicians feel ashamed of themselves as they march in the parade that doesn’t exist. It is really a pathetic sight. But I am proud of the people of Boston who resisted. They lost their parade but they were not forced to do what they did not want to do and they showed up the hypocrite politicians and the “we love everybody” homosexuals. And they call us the “haters”.
Don’t ever buy Sam Adams beer it was one of the corporations that pressured the parade to accept the homos.
Yep and boycott by straight Americans.
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