Posted on 03/16/2014 7:03:20 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Guinness pulls out of St. Patty’s parade over LGBT ban
Guinness beer has pulled its sponsorship from New York’s famed St. Patrick’s day parade over a controversial policy that prohibits gays and lesbians from marching openly, according to reports.
“Guinness has a strong history of supporting diversity and being an advocate for equality for all,” the company said in a statement on the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation website.
“We were hopeful that the policy of exclusion would be reversed for this year’s parade. As this has not come to pass, Guinness has withdrawn its participation. We will continue to work with community leaders to ensure that future parades have an inclusionary policy.”
The move came after the legendary gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, announced it would dump the beer from its shelves in protest of the parade’s anti-gay policy. The protest was cancelled after the Guinness announcement.
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Another Dicks-ie Ckicks moment. My goodness, guiness is gone.
WTF is going on here? There’s probably 3 queers that drink Guinness and it won’t hurt if they boycott while I would guess that a shunning by their 99.999% heterosexual base might.
Maybe it is Murphy’s that is a competitive of Guiness over in Ireland and it seems similar. http://www.themediacaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-shot-2013-03-17-at-8.36.30-AM.png
Stil, this is a shame, I wonder if it is the American branch or the Irish headquarters making this decision.
A worthy honorable mention ...
Ridiculous. Like several other posters have asked...
What do St Patrick’s Day parades have to do with sexual preference?
I’ll stick with my red wine.
AND I’m done with them as well.
I am so sick and tired of companies catering to sexual lifestyles for what they perceive is market share. HELLO!!! What’s wrong with me, Mr. straight white guy??? Not sexually deviant enough for ya??? You had NOOOO problem taking my cash for YEARS but now I and many like me are all the sudden the bad people because we don’t like what the MINORITY is into?? Have fun with that demographic keeping your sales up and your people paid.
Good bye Guinness, I hope your other distilleries burn down after being a 22 year patron.
Actually, gays CAN march in the parade. They just can’t march as a group to advertise their gayness.
You’d think, from the publicity, that the parade controllers were picking out individual gays from various groups and tossing them out.
Whatever. Why would any gay want to promote St. Patrick in a parade in his honor?
Another reason to brew your own.
I think that was before they bought it. Tyrconnell is another good bottle from a different company.
Separating the men from the queers...
Shut up and brew.
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Every head shall bow and every knee shall bend before the great and awesome lords of queerdom.
I think it was the 1990s or early 2000s when Guiness went for the gay market.
Why don’t they just ask the army, navy and marines to invade South Boston.
Relax, don’t worry, have a homebrew.
Guiness didn’t have that much market share, but Sam Adams and Heiniken did, but there are plenty of breweries that can fill any gap. I’m not sure just what they hope to accomplish here, what lesson they are imparting?
Didn’t Chick-fil-A teach any lessons?
If one cannot say St. Patrick, then say St. Paddy. In no way call it St. Patty.
It’s St. Paddy!
I can usually maintain some semblance of optimism, but I'm increasingly convinced that America, as it was intended at it's founding, is over.
Common sense: gone.
Tradition: gone.
Honor: gone
Morality: gone.
Courage: gone.
Responsibility: gone.
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