Posted on 03/17/2016 6:30:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
Mayor Bill de Blasio will march with a homosexual group authorized to participate under its own banner, but organizers have declined similar permission to pro-lifers.
NEW YORK - When the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade kicks off at 11:30am Thursday, two homosexual groups will be among the hundreds of organizations marching under their own banners.
No pro-life organizations, however, will be marching in the annual parade down Fifth Avenue.
"You have a gay group in the St. Patrick's Day Parade allowed to march, but the pro-life people are banned? The whole thing is perverse," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Donohue told the Register that he does not regret his decision to pull the Catholic League from the parade last year, after he said the parade organizers lied to him about allowing a pro-life group to march. Instead, the parade committee this year welcomed a second homosexual group, the Lavender and Green Alliance, whose leader, Brendan Fay, has been a vocal critic of the Church’s moral teachings.
"That just tells me that everything is disintegrating, as I expected," Donohue said.
The parade committee did not respond to a message sent through its public-relations firm seeking comment as to whether any pro-life or pro-family groups had applied to march in this year's parade, or as to whether they will be allowed to march in 2017.
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Christians should keep their children off the streets and not tune in if it’s televised, don’t support it in any way.
St. Patrick would not want his name associated with this.
Where the heck were you earlier !!! I am scarred for life now no thanks to you !!! No amount of green beer can help me now !
This sort of thing will become more common with time. It ain’t just Frisco anymore.
Do the Catholic high schools still march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade?
There’s plenty enough blame around for that abomination...
I’m sure the old pro-Sinn Fein/”pro-life” dinosaurs the Ancient Order of Hibernians didn’t have any trouble marching (since their religion is Irishness).
Who makes a saint out of a cartoon starfish anyway?
What a surprise.
“Equal” my white Irish ass.
Homoleftists rule the day.
100% Irish and that parade is dead to me. Get of my TV. So is Guinness and Heineken. I will never have another sip of either one.
NY has made its choice.
all catholics should leave NY and NYC.
Personally not hyphenated so it doesn’t matter too much to me, except I think it’s odd sodomy is now associated with the patron saint of Ireland. If he was indeed a devout Roman Catholic he’d find this profane.
Did the KofC march?
Here in NJ one of the Catholic High schools (St. Patrick’s, Elizabeth?) closed, and it is now run (I believe as a public school) as “The Patrick School”.
Along the same lines, from this point going forward this parade shall be known as “The Patrick’s Day Parade”.
**No pro-life organizations, however, will be marching in the annual parade down Fifth Avenue. **
Something is very wrong here. Will we see New York’s population start to decrease because of this?
I used yto march in the late 50’s while I was in HS...That’s why I asked
You’re talking out of the wrong hole!
How would I know that?
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