Posted on 09/05/2014 11:22:22 PM PDT by GonzoII
You don’t honor a saint by encouraging a sin.No doubt there have been homosexual persons marching down Fifth Avenue every year in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. There was never any ban on their participation; there was no test of sexual orientation for marchers. But next year the parade in New York will feature something new: a group of avowed homosexuals carrying a banner, promoting same-sex unions, supporting the gay lifestyle.
Next year there will be only one story-line of interest to the reporters who cover the annual parade in the world’s media capital: the triumph of the gay activists. Photographers will be competing for the one “money” shot: the picture of the contingent from OUT@NBCUniversal marching past the reviewing stand at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, under the benign smile of Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
And the media will be right to concentrate on that story line, because this is a significant advance for homosexual activists, a significant retreat for the Catholic Church. A generation ago, the late Cardinal John O’Connor said that it would be impossible to include proponents of homosexuality in a Catholic event. Now they will be included—and although the parade’s sponsors, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee*, made that crucial change in policy, it is difficult to believe that they made their decision without sounding out the leaders of the New York archdiocese.
Has Catholic teaching changed, then, to allow this accommodation? Pope Francis, questioned about homosexuality, famously replied, “Who am I to judge?” But in resisting demands from gay-activist groups to be included in the parade, the New York archdiocese was not judging homosexuals. It was simply observing that it would be absurd to include, in an event honoring a saint, a group dedicated to public acceptance of a moral disorder.
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The parade should be canceled. If not, then boycott it.
Just an extension of the drunken debauchery that it has become anyway - probably long overdue for being used as an example of what not to do as a Catholic. It seems though that for too long if you are a drunken Irish Catholic a wink and a nod from the Parish Priest on on yer way with ya and all is well for this type of behavior. It sets a poor example and must give question to those outside of the Church about why one lot of sin is ok and another prohibited.
St. Patrick’s Day parades in general have become more about getting plastered and less about celebrating the good works of the saint. By adding the LGBT crowd, the parade in New York is now completely a work of Satan.
I never liked parades, even as a child. Always thought they were boring — watching a bunch of people marching around and politicians doing phony waves to a crowd of people they didn’t know and didn’t care about. These days parades are all about politics and unions. Democrats love parades. Sort of like the “circuses” in “bread and circuses.” A distraction for the masses from life’s miseries actually created by the Democrats.
I thought that I was about the only person who let that way about parades. I live near the US Mardi Gras capitol, and in one of the biggest Mardi Gras “satellite” cities, and I never fail to miss all the hoop-la. Parades bore me.
The parades of the Twenties, say the ones for Lindbergh or Sergeant York, would probably have been more exciting. They were actually celebrations of real spontaneous human achievement, people were truly thrilled.
You’re right; college kids get worked up and drugged and drunk and smear green paint and wear green clothes and act out.
The older parades likely had more interesting people in the parades as well instead of tarty celebrities and asinine beauty queens.
I think you’re right. I hate crowds, but one of the historical events I would love to have been at would have been at the Le Bourget airport in Paris when Lindbergh landed. That was a feat! A step into the unknown, that no had ever done, all alone, just him, the plane, and his own wit and resourcefulness. Worth every accolade he ever received.
Once, my mother and I were walking down a street in Pittsburgh right after the St. Patrick's Day Parade when some middle-aged drunk accosted us and started getting frisky with my mother. She swung her purse at him, knocked him down and we got out of there. After that, I wouldn't go anywhere near downtown before, during or after a parade.
What a disgusting world we live in now these days.
“She swung her purse at him, knocked him down and we got out of there.”
Good on your mom for that!
It’s actually funny as Mom was less than 5 feet tall and about a hundred pounds soaking wet and the guy was much bigger. But he was so loaded, a gust of wind could have knocked him down.
Kinda like Sodom and Gomorrah.
St Patrick deserves more respect than this. It’s a shame that this Godly man’s memory is associated with what he and his God knew to be sin...behavior that brings personal, social, and spiritual death.
Cancel the parade...period. We didn’t always have a parade.
Catholics will cave just like Episcopalians did...too many liberals in the pews.
I recall that when gays wanted to march in the Salute to Israel parade, the Orthodox Jews, who make up about half the parade, said if that were so, then they would withdraw and would not march. Period.
And since they amounted to about half the parade, that would have effectively cancelled the parade.
Individual groups which normally march in the St. Patrick’s Day parade can just cancel. Let the parade have ten people marching in it.
Yeah. I once called it the green kool aid... did not get me points with the local skanks... Apparently this crap is a treat.
I would have liked to have seen the Apollo astronauts or Charles Lindbergh, but nowadays so much is advertising and politics. So mediocre.
Haha ‘Green Cool Aid’ indeed. I won’t touch it either but I’m not much of a drinker!
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