Posted on 02/04/2014 2:44:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will not be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade, deciding to skip one of his city’s signature celebrations because the event organizers refuse to let participants carry pro-gay signs.
De Blasio will become the first mayor in decades to sit out the traditional march along Fifth Avenue.
“I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city,” said de Blasio on Tuesday during an unrelated press conference at City Hall. “But I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade.” …
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Snow: The Good Lord brings it and He can take it away.
It will save him the humiliation of being himself in the parade.
Addition by subtraction.
Good. Sounds like a good day to visit NYC.
I’m shocked about the organizers refusing to allow pro-gay signs...that’s actually amazing in this era of “tolerance”
I hope New Yorkers are proud of themselves for electing this jag-off. Even Anthony Weiner would’ve been an improvement.
Maybe they don’t want sexual signs at what’s supposed to be a family-OK event? Do these jackasses ever think of that?
BTW do we ever celebrate seriously any other heritage? Geesh.
Di Fascio can go suck a couple of Cosmos down at Stonewall in protest.
Lucky day for the Irish. They will not be forced to carry pro-gay signs. And their idiot mayor will not be in it. It is his loss.
“I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city,” said de Blasio on Tuesday during an unrelated press conference at City Hall. “But I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade.” …
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Why is this idiot giving us the impression that the Irish heritage and queers go hand in hand?
If I were Irish, I’d be mad that a day to celebrate St. Patrick is expected to promote faggotry as well.
Do cities let Gay Rights protesters march at the front of the MLK Day parades or do they have to go to the back of the bus?
I look, from afar, at the New York mayoral election, and as naive as New yorkers seem to be, it baffels my mind as to why they would have elected this nit-wit to lead their city...he will be a TOTAL disaster and is already becomming so....amazing!!
He’s even more overt in his marxism than the guy in Washington.
Gay activists- drama queens. Every event must be all about them!
In his first term this parade will be denied a permit
The perverts have been fighting this in courts for over a decade and they just can’t win.
I expect a gay judge to overturn the First Amendment rights of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee eventually.
When that happens the Irish Christians that organize it will no longer do so and that great parade as we know it will end.
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