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Provocateur and professional loudmouth Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, has jumped into the fray over the exclusionary polices of the St. Patrick's Day parades in New York and Boston, promising to boycott Guinness and Samuel Adams beers. Then he added a new twist.
Donohue announced Wednesday that he has applied to march in June's LGBT pride parade in New York City, carrying a Straight Is Great banner.
Are they going to let me do it or not? Im waiting to see what they want to say, Donohue said on the conservative Steve Malzberg Show. Donohue explained that parade rules require participants to carry pro-LGBT signs. All right, you can disagree with their rules, but thats their parade. Why dont they respect us when it comes to the St. Patricks Day Parade?
Pride parade organizers issued a brilliant response to Donohue's request. Mr. Donohue and his group are free to participate in the 2014 March, said David Studinski, march director for NYC Pride. His groups presence affirms the need for this years Pride theme, We Have Won When Were One. Straight is great as long as theres no hate. Organizers provided him with instructions for using the parade's online registration system, while also pointing out his history of antigay rhetoric; read the full statement here.
http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2014/03/20/op-ed-gay-and-faithful-arent-mutually-exclusive
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Congratulations to the Catholic League for providing such an excellent understudy to the late Mr Phelps.
William769
(55,142 posts)Hopefully it will be a mutual knockout.
P.S. I apologize if my boxing terminology is not correct.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)What, because St. Patrick drove teh gay outta Eire?
Embarrassing.