Posted on 02/05/2014 8:18:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After boycotting snow removal, William Wilhelm Jr. aka Bill de Blasio will be boycotting the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Bill de Blasio doesn’t seem like a fan of parades in general. Before the election he showed up at the Columbus Day Parade and claimed that he wasn’t doing it to support Columbus.
Wilhelm Jr. isn’t a fan of St. Patrick either because the parade doesn’t allow gay rights signs. That will make Bill de Blasio the first mayor since Dinkins to pull this stunt.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he won’t be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade this year in protest for gay rights.
The Democrat said he won’t march along Fifth Avenue because of organizers’ refusal to allow gay-pride signs in the parade, the Associated Press reported.
Organizers said gay-rights activists are allowed to march but cannot carry signs because it could take away from the parade’s focus on honoring Irish tradition.
Organizers predict more than 1 million people will attend on March 17.
And how many of them voted for Bill de Blasio?But you can sympathize with Bill’s position. His wife is a lesbian after all.
The Sandinista mayor’s position though isn’t radical enough for the even more radical left.
LGBT leaders and other officials, including Public Advocate Tish James, wrote an open letter to the mayor yesterday in the Gay City News calling on him to “Ban Uniformed City Personnel in Discriminatory St. Pat’s Parade.” The police commissioner and uniformed police, firefighters and other city personnel typically march in the parade down Fifth Avenue every year.
“The presence of uniformed police and firefighters in such a procession sends a clear signal to LGBTQ New Yorkers that these personnel, who are charged with serving and protecting all New Yorkers, do not respect the lives or safety of LGBT people,” they wrote. “We are asking you to direct all City departments not to organize marchers for or allow personnel to participate in this anti-LGBTQ procession either in uniform or with any banner that identifies them with the City.”
And then maybe compel the NYPD’s Irish cops to march in the Gay Pride Parade instead.
The St. Patrick’s Day parade predated New York City. It will be around long after Bill de Blasio is sleeping in one of those specialized nursing homes for old leftists.
I suspect many of the politicians that bend over for the gay agenda in public probablly do the same behind closed doors.
Aw the enlighten new york voter have gone from bad to worse.
How long before the whining starts, 3,2,1.
I am continuing my boycott of NYC.
De Blasio’s wife was lesbian.
Does the past tense in the above sentence imply anything?
Is this guy the next president? Sorry, but I ain’t buying Hillary running, she’s too old and haggard.
good...........who needs the outright commie
The St. Patrick’s Day parade is not meant to be a political event—even though the politicians have always jumped on board. They don’t allow gay rights signs, but they don’t allow right-to-life signs either.
First mayor since Dinkins to decline the parade? I suspect that de Blasio will be a lot worse than Dinkins. Dinkins merely put the finishing touches on what John Lindsay started. De Blasio will go all the way to wrack and ruin in one term, if I read him rightly.
> De Blasio’s wife was lesbian.
Does the past tense in the above sentence imply anything?
Loud and clear. Did she have a beard?...: )
Three of my adult children live and work in New York (no trust funds), and I have plenty of friends there as well. Sure, the city is full of idiots and leaches, but I hate to see this happening to all the good people who live there.
Apparently Bill Clinton continues to have affairs in the White House - thinking it is the American peoples whore house.
For the past year he has been sleeping with Elizabeth Hurley.
Works for me.
They probably don’t want to see your dumb ass there anyway.
He’s in line for the democrak nomination
I expect to begin to see bumper stickers very soon.
Would the gays allow Christians to March in their Halloween parade in the village carrying Leviticus signs?
NYC is on the road to hell.
RE: NYC is on the road to hell.
Yes, but I’m not sure if it’s paved with good intentions...
Who needs him? I’d be relieved if I was sponsoring the parade.
de Blasio has taken part in every single Islamic event in the city since he began his career in NYC politics. I’m pretty sure they don’t allow for pro-homosexual signs, considering their stance on homosexuals in general. Not one NY media person will ever address that.
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