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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Why wouldn’t you celebrate the death of a saint by marching around naked?!?
/sarcasm
The next gay pride parade, the Irish should demand to be able to march and have a float in it. And let the float contain NOTHING about gay pride, except large lettered verses of the Bible condemning homosexuality.
Sodomite veterans trying the same tactic in Boston. It’s not good enough to just march in the parade as a veteran, even wear your uniform, they want to proudly wave a RAINBOW flag to tell the world they are proud they were never caught breaking the law before DADT was lifted.
Skip the Sam Adams beer because they pulled their sponsorship:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/03/13/club-cafe-drops-sam-adams-st-patricks-day/
I commend the Club Cafe for dropping Sam Adams beer in this case.
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