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Raining on their parade: Fight over rights of gays to march openly on St. Patrick's Day dampens mood
New York Daily News ^ | 03/17/2014 | By Caitlin Nolan AND Ginger Adams Otis / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Posted on 03/17/2014 1:36:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Protestors chanting pro-gay slogans and advocating for equal rights could be heard along Fifth Ave. as the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade proceeded through Manhattan. Mayor Bill de Blasio and other politicians skipped attending the festivity after organizers said gay groups were not allowed to carry gay-friendly signs or openly identify as LGBT. That caused beer brands Guinness and Heineken to drop their sponsorship of the event.

Not all Irish eyes were smiling Monday as the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade kicked off in midtown Manhattan amid a protest over participants carrying pro-gay signs.

Half a city block was crowded with people waving signs that said “NYPD SHAME” and “Bigotry shouldn’t be paraded.”

A large rainbow flag stretched across the sidewalk with the words “Boycott Homophobia” written on it.

Bagpipers in plaid kilts strove to be heard above the chants of “Cops out, Queers in,” as the procession moved past.

Bill de Blasio was conspicuously absent from the front of the parade — the first time in 20 years the city’s mayor didn’t participate.

Organizers of the parade, the longest-running in city history, say that gay groups can march but are not allowed to carry gay-friendly signs or openly identify themselves as LGBT.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: gayrights; homosexuality; parade; stpatrick
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To: SeekAndFind

They are hate groups that hate Catholics and the Catholic Church...that is the only reason they want to be in the parades


21 posted on 03/17/2014 1:48:10 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: Biggirl

homosexuality is the only sin that God calls an “abomination”.


22 posted on 03/17/2014 1:48:31 PM PDT by kingattax (America needs more real Americans.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The only goal of the gay agenda is to destroy anything that doesn't center around them.
23 posted on 03/17/2014 1:48:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: SeekAndFind

“No gay person has ever been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day parade, any more than the parade bans pro-life Catholics or vegetarian Catholics; they simply cannot march under their own banner,” said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League.

“The parade has one cause: honoring St. Patrick. Those who disagree do not have to march — that’s what diversity is all about,” he noted.”

Nails the hammer on the head.


24 posted on 03/17/2014 1:49:11 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: SeekAndFind

So gays aren’t banned....so this is fake outrage!


25 posted on 03/17/2014 1:49:34 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: ronniesgal

RE: I predict that eventually we will be forced by our government to actually engage in homo behavior just 1ce, so we cannot call anybody queer anymore.

I’ll plead low libido :)


26 posted on 03/17/2014 1:49:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (question is this)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are hate groups that hate Catholics and the Catholic Church...that is the only reason they want to be in the parades


27 posted on 03/17/2014 1:50:10 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: kingattax

AMEN, BINGO, we have a WINNER!


28 posted on 03/17/2014 1:50:11 PM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: kingattax

Correct. Homosexuals (a New York Times columnist defines “homosexual” as offensive and mandates that we use “gay”) are indeed trying to destroy every school, church, army and volunteer organization in America.


29 posted on 03/17/2014 1:50:34 PM PDT by heye2monn (MO)
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To: RginTN

RE: So gays aren’t banned....so this is fake outrage!

No gays aren’t banned. But they’re not happy with simply marching, they WANT to march under a gay pride banner.


30 posted on 03/17/2014 1:50:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (question is this)
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To: TexasCajun

They never promised to be tolerant once they gained power, it was like becoming a dhimmi for Muslims - they don’t practice what they demand of others


31 posted on 03/17/2014 1:51:40 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: MrB
If someone’s sexual practices are a supposed to be a private matter, why do I have to keep hearing about them?

I have a psychological theory about that. No matter what the fags project outwardly, inside their conscience is telling them that what they are doing is wrong. It is offensive to God and to righteous men. But they want to pretend that what they are doing is not a sin. And inside, that psychological tension is making them miserable.

So they are compelled to do two things. One is that they must have public affirmation in what they are doing, and to be constantly praised or "celebrated" in their faggotry. And yet even that doesn't work. So they resort to the other, and that is the projection of their misery on everyone around them. If they are going to be miserable, then you too must share in their misery.

And the righteous men, whom the fags fear and loathe for their righteousness, must be shamed, ridiculed and silenced. Because they speak the truth and the truth hurts.

32 posted on 03/17/2014 1:52:20 PM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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To: henkster

You backed the car into a very good point: The instant they allow the parade to have “Gay Pride” celebrations will be the instant the parade ends. Literally. Most of the current participants will issue statements: “If they’re in, we’re out.” Done. Which is what the liberals really wanted in the first place.


33 posted on 03/17/2014 1:52:35 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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To: SeekAndFind

In middle school!


34 posted on 03/17/2014 1:53:02 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: SeekAndFind

St. Patrick legendarily evicted snakes from Ireland. (Snakes aren’t native there but maybe Druids brought them.)

We have some modern snakes now.


35 posted on 03/17/2014 1:54:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Daily News has become (or was always) a very lib newspaper. I’m not surprised at their coverage of the sodomites.


36 posted on 03/17/2014 1:54:22 PM PDT by wattsgnu
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To: SeekAndFind

Very appropriate for neo pagans like de Blasio and Walsh to exclude themselves from participating in a Catholic celebration. They do not share or respect the values or beliefs of Catholicism. Their presence would have been a hypocritical intrusion. Also the real Sam Adams was a viscious anti Catholic bigot, a failed brewer and made his living as a dishonest tax collector. Its ironic that the beer company is carrying on in the tradition of its namesake.


37 posted on 03/17/2014 1:54:34 PM PDT by allendale
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To: SeekAndFind

>> they WANT to march under a gay pride banner.

Which is fine, they can organize and pay for their own parade. No one is stopping this.

These people are belligerent and obnoxious.


38 posted on 03/17/2014 1:56:48 PM PDT by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: SeekAndFind

No more Heineken .................Looter guy is gonna be pissed!....................

39 posted on 03/17/2014 1:57:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

HEINEKEN?....F THAT S! PABST BLUE RIBBON!


40 posted on 03/17/2014 1:57:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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