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Gays Bent on Crashing St. Patrick's Day Parade
http://www.newsmax.com ^ | Marhch 12, 2014 | Bill Donohue

Posted on 03/12/2014 8:23:22 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

On June 19, 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade was a privately run operation that could write its own rules for participation.

Writing for the high court, Justice David Souter noted that gays and lesbians had never been barred from marching in the parade; they were banned from marching under their own banners. The court's unanimous ruling was a victory for the First Amendment right to freedom of assembly.

Once this decision was reached, gay and lesbian groups in many cities, including New York, were angry, and some tried, unsuccessfully, to march without a permit on the same day as the big parade.

The protests quickly fizzled: Only a very small contingent of gays and lesbians showed up in subsequent years. Now the fight has been rekindled, thanks to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio: He is not marching in the parade because gays and lesbians can't march under their own banner. Other public officials have followed suit.

It must be noted that the organizers of the parade, the St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee, do not allow pro-life Catholics to march under their own banners. Nor are NRA Catholics allowed. But just as gays can march, so can pro-lifers and NRA members; they simply must blend in like everyone else. No one feels victimized save for homosexuals.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; parade; stpatricksday
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Why do they need to insert themselves and their sexuality into unrelated events, such as a St. Patrick’s Day event?????

The agitators are not pro-homo they are anti-straight.

41 posted on 03/12/2014 9:39:53 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Darren McCarty
Not a bad movie ...but it’s not historically accurate.
Agree. "Gangs of New York": Fact vs. Fiction
42 posted on 03/12/2014 9:41:15 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: MrEdd

Thank you


43 posted on 03/12/2014 9:42:35 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: NKP_Vet
I am on record that the "Free The Gerbils" lobby opposes this action."


44 posted on 03/12/2014 9:46:31 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: mountn man; Maine Mariner

To Maine Mariner: Gangs of New York

To mountn man: “Does Leonardo Dicrapio die in it?”
Now I can’t ruin it for those who havent seen it can I? lol


45 posted on 03/12/2014 9:49:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: ScottinVA

“There is no more angry a sector of the populace than homosexuals.”

Did you leave out Muslims?

Anyway, the street flamboyant faggies don’t realize the backlash that’s stirred up among normal people. Much more subtle are gay parenting couples in today’s TV sitcoms.

It’s like the final Armageddon will be immediately preceeded by Sodom & Gomorrah.


46 posted on 03/12/2014 9:52:20 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: nascarnation

Considering the ethnic makeup of New York City’s police force, it’s debatable how hard the “perpetrators” would be pursued. And there are various ways of disguising one’s appearance to make identification difficult, if not impossible. It IS a parade after all, and it wouldn’t be inconceivable that some of the participants or obervers would want to celebrate their Irish heritage by coloring their faces and hair green. Or wearing green wigs and leprechaun masks. Or something similar.

And it’s very likely that no one in the crowd would see anything ... anything at all. And from what little they did see, the poor Irishmen were attacked by a gang of tutu-wearing faeries, and did little more than defend themselves.


47 posted on 03/12/2014 9:56:00 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
Of the 22,199 officers on patrol, nearly 53% were black, Latino or Asian, marking the first time minorities outnumbered whites by any significant measure, according to police department statistics reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
48 posted on 03/12/2014 10:01:25 AM PDT by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: V_TWIN
I loved Titanic and The Quick And The Dead.

I saw them NOT because of Dicrapio.

Pretty much, if a movie stars Dicrapio, I probably will avoid it.
(not that I go to see many movies, 1 maybe 2 a year)

49 posted on 03/12/2014 10:09:20 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: NKP_Vet

The gays feel they have a right to crash the party;they claim to be “Gay Lick”...


50 posted on 03/12/2014 10:30:16 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Why do they need to insert themselves and their sexuality into unrelated events, such as a St. Patrick’s Day event?????

They need a cheap publicity. They need something like this event to paint themselves as "victim", "being bullied" or "I need your support. This is a human right issue ...."
For liberals, this is a perfect opportunity
51 posted on 03/12/2014 10:41:40 AM PDT by Henderson
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To: mountn man

“Pretty much, if a movie stars Dicrapio, I probably will avoid it.”

Yep, I put up with him in that movie because I like Daniel Day lewis.............and he acted circles around Dicrapio.


52 posted on 03/12/2014 11:00:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN
A good actor is one who you lose the actor in the character.
Ie, Tom Hanks/Forrest Gump, Dustin Hoffman/Rain Man.

Dicrapio isn't that type of actor.

53 posted on 03/12/2014 11:12:40 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: NKP_Vet

They used to let the IRA march though. I always found that revolting.


54 posted on 03/12/2014 11:16:16 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: Mashood

What could be worse than being bitten by a Pogue?


55 posted on 03/12/2014 11:37:03 AM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: Viennacon; NKP_Vet

will this be a family fight or can anyone join im?


56 posted on 03/12/2014 11:56:36 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: NKP_Vet

In San Diego when we formed “Normal” under Roger Hedgecock, we lost our legal battle to march in the Gay Pride Parade.


57 posted on 03/12/2014 11:57:14 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: Viennacon
Here’s hoping a gang of drunk Irish bring crowbars!

Maybe we ought to take up a collection for their beer fund 🍻

58 posted on 03/12/2014 12:21:45 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: NKP_Vet

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59 posted on 03/12/2014 12:35:59 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Time for them to go back in the closet. Because it’s THEM, or US. What will will it be?

Inflaming the Irish is not in their best interest.


60 posted on 03/13/2014 10:31:03 AM PDT by ourworldawry
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