Posted on 03/16/2014 4:36:23 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The dank South Boston warehouse held a chill last weekend when the flatbed arrived, a 20-foot-long landscaping trailer with a wood plank floor stained by dirt. Around the flatbed gathered almost a dozen people — predominantly men from the surrounding blocks — wearing winter coats and work gloves.
The job ahead was daunting: transforming the flatbed into a parade float with seven faux cannons. From each cannon would flow a different color of the rainbow — fabric draped over plastic piping — landing in a pot of gold.
Randy Foster and Steve Martin had done this before. They built a 12-foot-long wedding cake float for Provincetown’s Carnival on Aug. 20, 2009, the day they married. This was different. This float was for the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which had banned gay organizations for two decades, a precedent enshrined by the US Supreme Court. Related
As a political standoff raged in recent weeks between parade organizers and the statewide gay advocacy group MassEquality, planning for this float continued with little notice. Momentum had been building for a year. There is a lot about this controversy people don’t know.
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“a rainbow for diversity”
How FOUL that the homosexuals have perverted God’s rainbow.
The rainbow was given to us by God, AFTER the Great Flood of Noah’s day. It was given to us as a “reminder” of the covenant He made with us, in that, He would never again flood the whole earth, as He did in the days of Noah.
Genesis 9:11-15
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
I wonder if they’ll allow a pro-life float now.
It is a celebration of the life of a Catholic saint after all.
I’m so confused:(
Hopefully plenty of people along the parade route will be armed with raw eggs.
I think to be truly diverse the parade needs an all inclusive Iranian float. If diversity is so wonderful there would be no problem driving a construction crane with 5 or 6 homosexuals hanging by their necks.
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