Posted on 02/11/2015 6:41:11 PM PST by marshmallow
The Irish are a people known for their pithy proverbs. Well, here’s one the committee that organizes the New York City St. Patrick’s Day parade should take to heart: There’s nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse.
As part of a well-publicized “compromise,” the committee has said it will allow both a gay advocacy group and an explicitly pro-life group to march in this year’s parade. The gay advocacy group was selected back in September. The 2015 parade is five weeks away. As of this writing, the identity of the pro-life group remains a mystery.
Last fall, the parade gave the world a master class in rank appeasement. After decades of principled opposition to the braying demands of groups like the Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization and its offspring, Irish Queers, the committee caved under pressure from its broadcast partner and announced OUT@NBCUniversal would be allowed to march under a banner identifying the sexual orientation of its members. Beginning in 2016, according to parade officials, other gay groups will be “free to apply” to march in the parade under banners proclaiming their predilections.
The parade committee called its decision “a gesture of goodwill to the LGBT community in our continuing effort to keep the parade above politics.” But the gay groups were not satisfied. The executive director of Empire State Pride Agenda called the announcement “disappointing and self-serving,” since the application and selection processes were not open to the public. Irish Queers has said, “There is no change. This is not progress. This is a farce.” The group continues to call on New York City mayor Bill de Blasio to forbid NYPD and FDNY officers to wear their uniforms while marching in what Irish Queers calls an “explicitly anti-gay parade.”
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where are the MOOSELIMS on this? arent they going to be awfully offended??
Im frankly rather surprised the ATHEISTS don’t go NUTS over a SAINT...Patrick’s...anything... sponsored by the city
The homos have their own parade but not satisfied with that. They want to pollute all public events
Saint Patrick would be mortified at a gay pride parade in his honor.
“Irish Queers has said, ‘There is no change. This is not progress. This is a farce.’”
Translation: they didn’t give in to 100% of each and every demand we had, therefore, they are homophobes!
How come we never ever see a “Gay March” that has hundreds of people all cleanly and neatly dressed in decent modest clothing not making obscene gestures????
And they don’t have to be dressed up like mormons making the rounds, but you know a bare minimum of T-shirts and Shorts and flips flops. You know the bare minimum required to go to a freeking McDonalds!!!!
Freaking Homos are never happy. Why on Earth do they call themselves Gay. They should call themselves Disgruntelds.
“our continuing effort to keep the parade above politics”
Huh? How is allowing homosexual activists to hijack a parade that has nothing to do with homosexuality entirely for their political purposes keeping the parade above politics. I am very disappointed at Cardinal Dolan’s role in this cave in, and I fear it prefigures further caving in by the Church on her moral teaching to serve the spirit of the world.
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