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Bar boycotts Sam Adams after pullout
Boston Herald ^ | 3/15/14 | Antonio Planas

Posted on 03/15/2014 8:34:48 AM PDT by raccoonradio

The fight over Southie’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade got frosty yesterday, with Boston Beer Co. pulling its longtime sponsorship from the parade over the organizers’ refusal to let gay veterans march — and one Southie bar fighting back with a vow to boycott the brew.

“Sam Adams doesn’t support South Boston. They don’t want to support veterans like my father and uncle, so they can go sell their beer elsewhere,” said Tommy Flaherty Jr., a lifelong Southie resident whose father and uncle own the landmark Cornerstone Pub & Restaurant on West Broadway.

Flaherty Jr. said he and his father, Thomas Flaherty Sr., 70, and his uncle John Flaherty, 81, were “taken aback” when they learned yesterday afternoon from reading bostonherald.com that the brewing behemoth pulled its sponsorship, so they decided not to sell Sam Adams indefinitely.

“(Boston Beer Co. has) no problem taking the money from the people drinking at the bars along the parade route,” Flaherty Jr. said, adding he has no qualms with gay people. “We serve to everybody. I don’t have a problem with gay people, nor do my father and uncle.”

Boston Beer Co. could not be reached last night for comment on Cornerstone’s boycott. Representatives of the beer company — until yesterday listed as a “proud sponsor” on the parade’s website — have marched in past years, but announced yesterday morning they will not participate this year because the organizer, Allied Veterans War Council, is refusing to change its longtime policy of banning anyone from marching under a gay-rights banner.

“We have been participating in the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade for nearly a decade,” Boston Beer Co. said in a statement. “We were hopeful that both sides of this issue would be able to come to an agreement that would allow everyone, regardless of orientation, to participate in the parade. But given the current status of the negotiations, we realize this may not be possible.”

The flap came after other supporters, including Westin Hotels and Gillette, distanced themselves from the parade. Yesterday, the parade’s website — which had featured dozens of business backers — erased its sponsorship page and replaced it with a message saying, “We’re updating our sponsors, thank you for your patience.”

Mayor Martin J. Walsh said last night he was “still hopeful” a deal can be made.

“We’ve gotten pretty close to an agreement here, and I think a lot of people thought this was the year we were going to have an agreement,” Walsh said. “I’m not giving up on that hope, we still have some time left. ... I have a glimmer of hope that we’re going to be able to work something out.”

As for Boston Beer Co. pulling its sponsorship, the mayor said, “They made a policy decision there, and I commend them for it.”


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonbrewing; boycott; corporateliberalism; gays; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia; pinklisted; samadams; stpatricks
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To: 12th_Monkey

I have always enjoyed creative freedom at FR.

Hint - its the vulgarity


61 posted on 03/15/2014 9:09:08 AM PDT by stanne
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To: G Larry

I saw it. All is good, FRiend.


62 posted on 03/15/2014 9:10:01 AM PDT by citizen (There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: bayliving

Yuengling Lager


63 posted on 03/15/2014 9:10:24 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( The Republican Party is in Hospice Care. Hold all contributions.)
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To: raccoonradio

Everybody should go into the bar, order Sam Adams, and when told they don’t have it...leave.


64 posted on 03/15/2014 9:11:12 AM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: stanne

Yeah, well I do work blue from time to time


65 posted on 03/15/2014 9:11:36 AM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: raccoonradio
The definition of "QUEER" in Southie:
A guy who prefers the company of women
to strong drink.

66 posted on 03/15/2014 9:12:44 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( The Republican Party is in Hospice Care. Hold all contributions.)
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To: caver
"Do gays drink beer?"

I think they drink this


67 posted on 03/15/2014 9:13:54 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Toespi

They want another public forum to shove their sexuality down people’s throat....Or something else.


68 posted on 03/15/2014 9:14:25 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

or as the piece of doggerel Howie Carr has quoted, Did you hear about Foley, the Irish queer? Reached for a woman instead of a beer.


69 posted on 03/15/2014 9:14:37 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Sam Adams is going to pull a Cracker Barrel!


70 posted on 03/15/2014 9:16:26 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: Go Gordon; raccoonradio

“Everybody should go into the bar, order Sam Adams, and when told they don’t have it...leave.”

So you support the queer addenda? Sam Adams does.


71 posted on 03/15/2014 9:16:52 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: raccoonradio

They don’t want to support veterans like my father and uncle,..He had a queer father AND A QUEER UNCLE? How the Hell does that family continue?


72 posted on 03/15/2014 9:16:57 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Tzimisce
What the Hell happened to this country?

The Left was allowed to take over the media and the educational system. That was all they needed. They controlled the message. They pick the groups that are "oppressed". They beat you over the head with it. Your children are stuck in classrooms with lefty teachers and corrupted textbooks and they learn the lessons the left wants to teach.

73 posted on 03/15/2014 9:17:47 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

For that matter, what does St Patricks Day have to do with anything other than the organized groups honoring him? Most individuals involved in these groups understand who he was, when he lived, what he did.

Here’s E.B. White’s 1949 view of it. It might answer your question:

It’s from a long essay titled, “Here is New York”

“I mention these merely to show that New York is peculiarly constructed to absorb almost anything that comes along (whether a thousand-foot liner out of the East or a twenty-thousand-man convention out of the West) without inflicting the event on its inhabitants; so that ever event is, in a sense, optional, and the inhabitant is in the happy position of being able to choose his spectacle and so conserve his soul. In most metropolises, small and large, the choice is often not with the individual at all. He is thrown to the Lions. The Lions are overwhelming; the event is unavoidable. A cornice falls, and it hits ever citizen on the head, every last man in town. I sometimes think the only event that hits every New Yorker on the head is the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, which is fairly penetrating — the Irish are a hard race to tune out, and they have the police force right in the family.[…]


74 posted on 03/15/2014 9:17:57 AM PDT by stanne
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To: raccoonradio

I’ve had mt last Sam Adams swill.


75 posted on 03/15/2014 9:18:06 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: raccoonradio
Just drink the good stuff...
76 posted on 03/15/2014 9:18:11 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Beagle8U

*agenda


77 posted on 03/15/2014 9:18:14 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: LibertarianLiz

Exactly spot on.


78 posted on 03/15/2014 9:18:34 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
WHAT THE F DOES THE ST. PADDYS DAYS PARADE HAVE TO DO WITH SEXUALITY??

Well, the parade isn't, but Sam Adams is. Who remembers the "Sex for Sam" scandal - the radio program that Sam Adams sponsored where people had sex in public places for Sam Adams?

79 posted on 03/15/2014 9:19:08 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Safetgiver

A what if situation:

Westboro Baptist: We want to march in your Boston Gay Pride Parade

Parade organizer: We don’t want you in and there’s a 1997 Supreme Court decision that says we can’t.

Westboro Baptist: Outrageous! We’ll sue!

Parade organizer: You won’t have a case. Tell you what, you can march provided you don’t have any banners or signs.

Westboro Baptist: Really? Well in that case never mind.
We only march when we have banners and signs with us.


Sound familiar? It’s what happened with Mass Equality and this parade. And maybe in an above situation a bar can say,
“We will stop selling (XXX) beer because they pulled their support from the gay pride parade after the organizers wouldn’t allow WBC in.” And note WBC’s real purpose: a political message. If they’re told you can march just no banners or signs, it’s... “never mind”...


80 posted on 03/15/2014 9:19:24 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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