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‘Diversity float’ will be part of St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Boston Globe ^ | 3-16-14 | Andrew Ryan

Posted on 03/16/2014 4:36:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog

The dank South Boston warehouse held a chill last weekend when the flatbed arrived, a 20-foot-long landscaping trailer with a wood plank floor stained by dirt. Around the flatbed gathered almost a dozen people — predominantly men from the surrounding blocks — wearing winter coats and work gloves.

The job ahead was daunting: transforming the flatbed into a parade float with seven faux cannons. From each cannon would flow a different color of the rainbow — fabric draped over plastic piping — landing in a pot of gold.

Randy Foster and Steve Martin had done this before. They built a 12-foot-long wedding cake float for Provincetown’s Carnival on Aug. 20, 2009, the day they married. This was different. This float was for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which had banned gay organizations for two decades, a precedent enshrined by the US Supreme Court. Related

As a political standoff raged in recent weeks between parade organizers and the statewide gay advocacy group MassEquality, planning for this float continued with little notice. Momentum had been building for a year. There is a lot about this controversy people don’t know.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; celebrateperversity; gaybullies; gayprideparade; gaystapotacics; homoagenda; homosexualagenda; massequality; stpatrick
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1 posted on 03/16/2014 4:36:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

begorrah bejeez


2 posted on 03/16/2014 4:41:09 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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3 posted on 03/16/2014 4:41:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The Texas judge's decision was to pave the way for same sex divorce for two Massachusetts women.)
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To: smokingfrog

Sick.

If I were a Catholic school or organization, I would pull out of the parade and let it become yet another raunchy, filthy, salacious, prurient “gay pride” fest.


4 posted on 03/16/2014 4:43:01 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: smokingfrog
The job ahead was daunting: transforming the flatbed into a parade float with an emense anal cavity, rigged to pooft rainbow colored ejecta across the gathered crowd.

I'm assuming here that the verb "pooft" and noun "ejecta" are still legally acceptable in the US.

5 posted on 03/16/2014 4:44:35 PM PDT by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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To: smokingfrog

So why can’t they just wear green like every body else?
I guess cause then you might not notice that they
were gay? Huummph, queer little leprechauns...


6 posted on 03/16/2014 4:46:36 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: smokingfrog
‘Diversity float’ will be part of St. Patrick’s Day Parade

All said, ‘Diversity float’ does sound a "hole" lot better than "Anal Sex Float".

7 posted on 03/16/2014 4:48:36 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: GeronL

Sheesh.


8 posted on 03/16/2014 4:48:37 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: smokingfrog

Samuel Adams Beer will support you!


9 posted on 03/16/2014 4:49:41 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: smokingfrog
The queers are smart. They have figured out ways to make a lot of noise despite their tiny minority.

Queers: "We are the 3.5%."

10 posted on 03/16/2014 4:52:08 PM PDT by upchuck (South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy for Speaker of the House!!!)
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To: smokingfrog

I’m tellin’ ya ... a few lads stationed at strategic spots along the parade route with several bags of pureed dog feces would make the celebration of “diversity” an odorous — and amusing — event.


11 posted on 03/16/2014 4:53:04 PM PDT by IronJack
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They have figured out ways to make a lot of noise despite their tiny minority.
They learned from other cry baby blacks


12 posted on 03/16/2014 4:55:11 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Zippy the a##clown sez..............)
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To: tet68
queer little leprechauns...

Imaginary critters, prothema to, say, the Easter Bunny, or, say, the Tooth Fairy. These are children's themes. The homos/perverts want to control those themes.

13 posted on 03/16/2014 4:55:35 PM PDT by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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“In its parade application, the Lower End contingent described its entry as a “diversity float” that would welcome people of all races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Marchers are expected to wear suits and ties or other business attire accented with a scarf to celebrate the diversity of South Boston.

Acceptable scarves — which were agreed to by marchers and parade organizers — include colors of any national flag, a peace sign, a rainbow for diversity, or an equal sign for gay rights. The application noted that “this small token of wearing a unique scarf would allow us to move toward inclusion.”

“The only way for this to work was to keep quiet. We had to wait it out and prove what we said when we first started, that we’re not here to make a big statement,”

So they had to hide what they were doing.


14 posted on 03/16/2014 4:56:27 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Westbrook

Until we have nothing left?


15 posted on 03/16/2014 4:58:19 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: smokingfrog
Where are the Boondock Saints when you need them?
16 posted on 03/16/2014 4:58:47 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: smokingfrog
The job ahead was daunting: transforming the flatbed into a parade float with seven faux cannons. From each cannon would flow a different color of the rainbow — fabric draped over plastic piping — landing in a pot of gold.

Seven ejaculating phalluses.

No thank you.

17 posted on 03/16/2014 4:59:13 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: smokingfrog
What they tell us will be in the parade:

What will show up for the parade:

Any questions?

18 posted on 03/16/2014 5:01:25 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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> Until we have nothing left?

There already IS nothing left.

Anytime you want to do something in public, the sodomites will use government “anti-discrimination” law to force you to include them and all their outrageous behavior, basically hijacking your message and making your event a vehicle for their expression.


19 posted on 03/16/2014 5:12:00 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: smokingfrog

Will there be a Mexican float or maybe one about the Russian revolution?


20 posted on 03/16/2014 5:13:23 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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