[Pecos]

My guess is that next year, Boston and NY will refuse parade permits to the Irish heritage (read: Catholic) groups that made the decision to prohibit openly gay groups from the parades. The major of NY is openly communist, and Boston is the epicenter of liberalism in New England. Then, the courts will rule that the parades are not an intrinsic part of Catholicism, so it's not religious discrimination (even though it would be). The phrase in the 1st amendment is “freedom of religion”, not “freedom from religion” or “freedom of worship”. The courts keep getting that wrong. Surprise, surprise, surprise....

[Wallace T.]

Saint Patrick is a saint of the Catholic Church. Irish national and Irish-American identity is centered around Catholicism, for well-known historical reasons. The Welsh and Highland Scots, of Celtic heritage, are culturally and racially similar to the Irish, yet did not receive the degree of persecution the Irish did due to the Protestantism that is the main religion of both the former groups. (There is a substantial number of Highlanders that are Catholic.) The Catholic religion regards homosexual behavior as sinful. Therefore, any parade that allows perverts to parade is an affront to both Catholicism and Irish-American heritage.

Once upon a time, Irish-Americans fought American Protestants who tried to deny their rights to assembly and worship with political action and violence against their tormentors. Will they cave to the secularists and Marxists who are trying to do the same thing as the Protestants of yore attempted? Where is Bishop Hughes when you need him?