Posted on 10/29/2015 8:12:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
Twenty-five years ago, a small group of activists charged the New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade with being a public gesture of pure homophobia. They built their case around the allegedly bigoted "Catholic character." The trial was held before the judges of the left-leaning secular media.
A jury composed of the general public yawned, wondering why a 250-year-old civic and religious institution needed to become a battlefield in the culture wars. The activists found this lack of popular support impossible to fathom. Enraged, they determined to do more than just march up Fifth Avenue. They sought to humiliate their enemies, including the parade's organizers, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Catholic Church herself.
Then the unexpected: the committee responsible for sponsoring and staging the parade stopped defending itself against the worst of the charges. The case has now moved to the penalty phase.
This week, the victors revealed their demands: a Saint Patrick's Day parade that is both non-Catholic and -incredibly- non-Irish. As outlandish as that sounds, all indications are that the activists will get what they want, because they've somehow managed to capture the imagination of the parade's new boss - Quinnipiac University president John L. Lahey.
In July, Lahey wrested control of the parade's board of directors away from longtime chairman John T. Dunleavy - a man defamed for decades by gay activist groups as "the standard-bearer for religious homophobia." Dunleavy filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court this month alleging that Lahey and a fellow board member, NBC executive Francis Comerford, had manipulated the committee into maintaining a $175,000 contract with NBC. (Unbelievably, the parade pays the network to air the event, not the other way round.) The lawsuit claims that Lahey is using Quinnipiac funds to defend himself. A parade spokesman.....
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Makes as much sense as a Jewish st Patrick parade.
Cancel the parade, tell the homosexuals you won, see what Happens. Oh I forgot to add, tell the homosexuals to go to hell.
these homos act like spawn of a bitch.
I remember Johnny Carson touting no-calorie pizza.
I suppose one would chase it down with near-beer.
“We would like to celebrate the Saint in a completely secular, sort of perverted kind of way. How could you object??”
So,organize the parade.
1) Pay for your permits
2) Get the floats and the marchers and whatever else you want in your parade.
3) Have your parade.
Oh, sorry, did you mean you want SOMEBODY ELSE to give you your parade. Tough shit.
Remember back when race, religion, color, and creed were just accepted instead of being the subject of protests?
I guess that was back before they made it against the law.
So...a gay pride parade?
It is true?
My God. I thought I was reading a satire article the other day.
Why don’t the homos just have their own “parade” somewhere else? Maybe a long parade on a short pier in San Francisco. The rest of the world would never miss them.
This is all about shutting God out and celebrating Satan instead.
I no longer care what less than 2% of the population wants.
They should definitely have their own parade and leave the Catholics and Irish alone
Ehhhhh, what do the “activists” think the word Saint stands for?
Get your own effin parade ... oh, you're afraid no one will show up? You really aren't the center of the universe after all? Who knew?
They already have their own sodomite parades. It is not good enough for them unless the sodomites get to desecrate somebody else’s celebration.
They already have one gayday parade.
They want 365.
That was today. Did those measures pass?
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