Posted on 06/29/2019 2:17:10 PM PDT by Ennis85
Today the country celebrates Pride with its symbol, the rainbow.
The rainbow generally follows the dark clouds: when colour and light once more break through; much like the history of Pride itself. This weekend also marks the 50th anniversary of a police raid on the Stonewall Inn. Its brutality sparked riots that energised the fight for gay equality in the US.
The stand taken and the refusal to be beaten down is said to have been the catalyst for the modern gay-rights movement.
If today people of the same sex can walk hand in hand without comment, it might too be remembered that right did not come without a struggle and the courage to stand strong and face down suffocating institutional and state powers.
For too long, Ireland was no country for gays, who were criminalised and discriminated against.
If the Sexual Offences Act 1967 decriminalised homosexual acts in private in the UK, Ireland had to wait until 1993 for same-sex sexual activity to be legal. And even then, it came only after overcoming hardcore prejudice, discrimination and cruelty.
The genesis of Dublin Pride goes back to the brutal murder of Declan Flynn in 1982. The 31-year-old was beaten to death in a park.
Writing about the incident in these pages recently, Justin McAleese quoted a court report from the time which read: "Five Dublin youths found guilty of the manslaughter of a 31-year-old man in a park walked free from the Central Criminal Court in Dublin after being given suspended sentences of one to five years' penal servitude."
Mr Flynn was kicked and beaten by the youths, acting as a "team to get rid of queers from Fairview Park".
The sense of outrage was fuelled by remarks from the judge that the defendants could never have been accused of murder.
The message, as pointed out by Mr McAleese, was clear: "LGBT lives were not equal to those of our straight brothers and sisters."
And so the first Dublin Pride march took place eight weeks after that judgment.
Today's march hopefully will show we have moved a long way from that repressive and hateful time.
The Rainbow flag will fly over Leinster House. Representatives of the Defence Forces marched for the first time last year. This year members of the Garda will make their first appearance; and the GAA will also participate.
As the heroic gay rights activist Harvey Milk once explained: "It takes no compromise to give people their rights... it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression."
Perhaps it ought not have, but the truth was different.
People suffered appallingly to secure rights that should be theirs from birth.
Today it is fitting to recognise the progress but it is also important to remember an unequal struggle for equality.
As George Clooney put it: "At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black."
We are not quite there yet, but the momentum is formidable and there is no turning back.
They must really hate black people to compare them to sexual deviants.
All Americans have equal rights. Legal non citizens have most but not all rights(can’t vote). Illegals have basic rights as not to get summarily harmed or executed.
As always they confuse Equal Rights with Special Rights.
BTW - Hate is a Motive, not a Crime.
Today's simple question is: Has everything that transpired since then confirmed or refuted that claim?
Faggies rule.
Just what makes faggies with their disgusting behavior so d@mned SPECIAL!!?
Good post.
The “lesson” supposedly learned in the Stonewall riots changing gays from accepting to proudly belligerent is “violence works”.
What a dangerous lesson: violence is the answer.
When they fail a few court battles they may take up brutality as the BLM and Black Panthers did. They call us “the breeders” when we are out of earshot (my gay coworkers told me).
I will be so glad when gay month is over.
Me too, Its tiresome being let down by one corporation after another who embrace it. just two more days to go.
Desperate presidential candidates who are trying to win votes by promoting political correct equal rights are effectively wrongly promoting the idea that the Founding States' express constitutional prohibitions on establishing privileged / protected / noble classes should be ignored imo.
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States [emphasis added]: And no person holding any office or profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphases added]."
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also promise to enforce the Constitution’s prohibitions on protected classes.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG!
Pride is listed as one of the Seven deadly sins, and is known to go before a fall. I do not see why it would be celebrated for its own sake.
The rainbow is not a symbol of deviancy "pride." It is a gift from God to Noah after the Great Flood as a covenant that never again would He destroy the earth with water. It was a symbol of hope and His eternal forgiveness, of the cleansing power of water and the purification of sin through storm.
In fact, it was the exact OPPOSITE of the "pride" these perverts claim to have in their abomination. That they stole it for their own purposes does not make it theirs.
They spit in the eye of Almighty God by co-opting the rainbow, the symbol of His promise to never again destroy the world by water. He didn’t say that He wouldn’t destroy it in other ways though, such as by fire-just like Sodom and Gomorrah.
I won’t celebrate perversion. Period.
They had equal objective rights; they did not want them.
They demanded, and got, special subjective privileges.
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