Posted on 10/05/2015 6:57:53 PM PDT by marshmallow
New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade capitulates in a two-decade-long dispute with gay groups.
One of New York City’s longest-running civic and political battles came to an end this week, not with a bang but a whimper. The organizers of the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade announced that they would allow the Lavender and Green Alliance—a group composed of gay, lesbian, and transgender people of Irish descent— to participate in the annual march up Fifth Avenue. The group’s application to join the parade had been denied every year since 1994 due, parade organizers said, to its advocacy of an agenda at odds with the traditionally Catholic character of the event. In 2000, the group organized its own annual parade, St. Pat’s for All, in the heavily Irish neighborhoods of Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens.
Last week’s announcement was well received by LGBT advocates and their allies but failed to generate the sort of press you’d expect if you’d been watching the issue evolve over the last two decades. What was once one of the bitterest political fights (in a city known for bitter political fights) has simply resolved itself with barely a hint of pushback from one of the original adversaries. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York said that Timothy Cardinal Dolan has been out of town all week and may not be aware of the decision.
This marks a drastic change from a generation ago, when Dolan’s predecessor, John Cardinal O’Connor, squared off against New York City mayor David Dinkins in a public battle of wills over the issue. In 1991, Dinkins was booed by parade-goers for marching alongside the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO). Police arrested two men for throwing open beer cans that “whizzed over the heads of the crowd, raining down an......
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It will end up like “fantasy fest” in Key West.
Maybe just rename it the St. Patrick’s GAY parade?
Stupid fools. Just cancel the entire parade instead of bowing down to the homosexual lobby. They have you by the testicles, exactly where they want you—can you not see this?
Why am I not surprised.
Don’t they have their own parade, called something like Gay Pride Parade?
Q: What’s green, 5 miles long, and has an @$$hole every 3 feet?
A: A St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Boy, does this chestnut take on new meaning.
They can rename it “The Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick Parade”.
“The Rockets-to-Sockets & Nuts-to-Butts Day Parade”
*Celebrating St. Patrick chasing the snakes out of their Glory Holes.
It’s all about the money. No parade no money. Fight the queers, and it costs too much.
Too much money involved. It’s not about St Patrick or heritage. It’s about the Benjamin’s.
An Irishman is sitting at a bar drinking a beer.
A homo prances in from the parade and whispers in his ear, “Can I give you a blow-job?”
The Irishman stands up and knocks him down.
The bartender asks him, “Now Paddy, why did you go and do that?”
And the Irishman replied, “He said sumpin’ about me gettin’ a job.”
St. Patrick is rolling over in his grave and praying for all these sinners and for those complicit in allowing them to be in a St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Cancel the parade and the pretense. These are not real Catholics, but rather, apostates.
Paddy & Mike sitting at a bar:
Paddy: Did your ‘ear that Sean over t’ the brewery died?
Mike: Musha, what ‘appened?!
Paddy: Fell inta’ vat o’ beer and drownded; took himself eight hours t’ die.
Mike: Why so long?
Paddy: ‘E got out twice t’ go t’ the ‘loo!
What is fan.... never mind, I don't want to know.
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