Posted on 03/03/2016 11:05:22 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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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De Balsio, St. Patty’s Day is a RELIGIOUS Christian holiday. Homosexuality is not a Christian virtue, GET IT???
Once the faggots are let in.
De Ballsio is a socialist douche bag!
The bloody Orangemen should be marching too!
St. Patrick, meanwhile, will absent himself from the latest in Pride parades.
Kick his ass out of the parade!
So the parade is no longer family friendly. OK.
Cross that one off the list.
If I were mayor, I’d boycott it because it IS full of gays.
Is it possible to have a straight parade anywhere in this country without LGBTQetc exhibitionists exhibiting themselves? Is it against the law?
Might as well stay home and get drunk. I don’t think St. Pat will be there.
Trashing my culture wasn’t bad enough, they also had to trash the one my ancestors left 150 years ago.
One can only imagine what the leprechauns will look like this year:-)
Another joke.
Two gay men in Battery Park saw a large ship in the distance.
"What is that," the first gay said.
"The Staten Island Ferry," said the other.
"Wow, I knew we were organized but I didn't know we had our own navy."
Never cared for green beer. The pansies already own the streets anyway.
I’ll be off to Mass on Saint Patrick’s feast day. That’s celebration enough, surely.
Will there be a float celebrating the traditional heterosexual family?
Bingo!
Wasn’t the Commie actually “girl”cotting the parade?
The St. Patrick’s day parade has about as much to do with Catholicism as St. Joseph’s aspirins.
I left Fun City 15 years ago. Does anyone know if the Catholic high schools are still going to participate in the parade?
He thinks because he’s shakin up to a lesbian black girl he’s like one of the brothers, a gangbanger.
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