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Parade Chairman Makes Anti-Gay Remarks
The Associated Press ^ | Friday, March 17, 2006

Posted on 03/17/2006 10:01:26 AM PST by Great Communicator

The chairman of the nation's biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade marched Friday while sidestepping questions about remarks comparing gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.

"Today is St. Patrick's Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage. Everything else is secondary," said the chairman, John Dunleavy, who wore a sash of the Irish colors.

Dunleavy was blasted by the City Council's first openly gay leader for the remarks, which appeared in The Irish Times on Thursday.

He told the newspaper, "If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?"

About the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Dunleavy said, "People have rights. If we let the ILGO in, is it the Irish Prostitute Association next?"

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is of Irish descent, said she didn't think Dunleavy's remarks were worth a response. She declined to participate in the Fifth Avenue parade after organizers barred an Irish gay and lesbian group for a 16th straight year.

Huge crowds lined the streets at the start of the parade, waving Irish flags, wearing green hats and carnations and painting clovers on their faces. The city's parade, with 150,000 marchers and up to 2 million spectators, is the nation's oldest and largest St. Patrick Day parade.

New York "is the kernel of the whole Irish community in the U.S.," said Joe Sanning, 52, an officer with the Ireland

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"The comments bring to the forefront a longstanding bigotry, and the bigotry often translates into violence in our communities," said graduate student Emmaia Gelman, 31. She was among a dozen demonstrators organized by a group called Irish Queers,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fighting69th; homosexualagenda; ilgo; nopride; pevertparade; stpatricksday; stpatricsday; turdburglars; turdburlars
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1 posted on 03/17/2006 10:01:29 AM PST by Great Communicator
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To: Great Communicator

Things have changed..."anti gay" remarks?....

I guess settleling the matter with a game of 'smear the queer'
is out then?


2 posted on 03/17/2006 10:03:05 AM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: Great Communicator

Gelman's an irish name? Whaddoyaknow?


3 posted on 03/17/2006 10:03:23 AM PST by Tamar1973 ("There are some things for which we should display no tolerance." Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)
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To: Great Communicator

"If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?"

So did gays persecute the Irish?


4 posted on 03/17/2006 10:06:32 AM PST by The Worthless Miracle ("Better put some ice on that")
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To: Great Communicator

The chairman of the nation's biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade marched Friday while sidestepping questions about remarks comparing gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.




(gasp) he used his right to free speech to protest not having the freedom of association?

How unamerican. (sarcasm off)


5 posted on 03/17/2006 10:06:47 AM PST by trubluolyguy (Islam is a Cult of Death that has been infiltrated by a few non-violent believers.)
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To: Great Communicator

Why is it so important for everyone to know that they have sex with the same sex?

I really don't care. Until they force me to care.


6 posted on 03/17/2006 10:09:51 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Great Communicator

His remarks make perfect sense to me.


7 posted on 03/17/2006 10:10:16 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: The Worthless Miracle
So did gays persecute the Irish?

They've been persecuting the Saint Patricks's Day Parade for 16 straight years via the legal system. Can you imagine the arrogance of suing your way to an invitation to someone else's party?

8 posted on 03/17/2006 10:11:00 AM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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To: Great Communicator

Good for him.


9 posted on 03/17/2006 10:11:22 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Great Communicator

Go have your own parade on Brokeback Mountain and shut up, homosexuals!


10 posted on 03/17/2006 10:13:11 AM PST by NRA1995 (If feminists are so smart, why do they need masturbation workshops?)
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To: Great Communicator

What are the anti-gay remarks? Typical AP headline.


11 posted on 03/17/2006 10:14:29 AM PST by L98Fiero (I'm worth a million in prizes.)
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"The comments bring to the forefront a longstanding bigotry, and the bigotry often translates into violence in our communities," said graduate student Emmaia Gelman, 31

Of course thats what they want so they can hang their "I'm A Victim" certificate on their wall and cram their agenda down our throats

12 posted on 03/17/2006 10:14:45 AM PST by Horatio Gates (Islam is an exercise in fatality.)
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To: NRA1995

LOL - perfect solution.


13 posted on 03/17/2006 10:16:40 AM PST by mlc9852
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To: trubluolyguy

but comparing nasty queers with the KKK and the NSDAP is a bit on the tasteless side.

the just get on your nerves - they don't kill you.

I understand his anger though - can't celebrate a party without a 'hey we go to bed with the same sex' banner anymore.


14 posted on 03/17/2006 10:17:58 AM PST by globalheater (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare - Sun Tzu)
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To: FormerLib

Well put!

I knew an ultra Catholic who didn't know I knew two of his 5 kids were homo and lesbian. He asked me what I thought about the St. Patrick's Day parade controversy. He took a dim view of me because I left the Church as soon as I was able during my stint at Holy Innocents.

I said: "So where does it end, then? Irish Necrophiles, Beastiality..." That shut him up pretty fast.


16 posted on 03/17/2006 10:21:00 AM PST by Solamente
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To: joesnuffy; Tamar1973

Dunleavy was blasted by the City Council's first openly gay leader

Shame on the WP for getting such an important piece of gay civil rights history wrong. NYC's first openly gay Council member was, of course, Greenwich Village's delightful Rep. Tom Duane, who is now a NY state senator.

17 posted on 03/17/2006 10:21:35 AM PST by Great Communicator ("A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.")
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To: The Worthless Miracle

The St. Pat's parade is not about being Irish. It is a show of force by persecuted Catholics. It is outdated at this point, but that is its raison d etre.


18 posted on 03/17/2006 10:23:25 AM PST by Great Communicator ("A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.")
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To: The Worthless Miracle

King James I did (Plantation of Ulster).


19 posted on 03/17/2006 10:31:13 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Solamente

If he was a good Catholic, that was an example of him turning the other cheek and walking away from a cheap insult.
Good for him.


20 posted on 03/17/2006 10:31:31 AM PST by jjmcgo (Patriarch of the Occident since March 1, 2006)
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