What the New York and Boston St. Patrick's Day Parades
Missed
A great time was had by all the hundreds of thousand marchers and
millions of onlookers at Sunday’s St. Patrick’s parade in South Boston and
at the parade to end all parades, the 253rd edition of New York City’s St. Pat’s
Parade up Fifth Avenue on Monday.
In regrettable breaks with long-standing traditions, missing from the Boston Irish festival were Beantown’s Irish-American Democrat Mayor Marty Walsh and the Big Apple’s new Communist/Democrat Mayor Bill De Blasio.
Joined by beer-makers Guinness, Heinekin, and Sam Adams, both mayors boycotted their respective city’s parades for the same reason–refusals by principled parade committees to succumb to demands by the mayoral duo and their homosexual supporters to turn family-oriented parades into walking advertisements for the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) movement.
No doubt their presence would have been replete with the obscene gay exhibitionism typical of homosexual parades in previous San Francisco and “Gay Pride” marches in New York City, Boston, and elsewhere.
More so in Massachusetts than in New York, and still reflecting the powerful influence of the LGBT lobby, politicians were in short supply this year following failed negotiations between a gay advocacy group and parade organizers.
Just before the six-week negotiations collapsed, Mayor Walsh, whose sexual proclivities aren’t publicly known and who was barely two months in office, announced in an obvious effort to pressure the organizers to comply with his and the LGBT’s demands, “It comes down to being able to identify yourself in the parade.”
Walsh went on to say, ”If the gay community is marching with me, whether they’re veterans or anybody else, if they can’t be identified like every other group in the parade is identified, I will not be marching in the parade.”
No one is on record noting his absence anymore than anyone much cared that Mayor De Blasio had insulted every person of Irish heritage in New York by refusing to participate in NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Often incensed for one thing or another, gays have been especially livid for years over parade policy that no one is ever permitted to march and advocate any cause not expressly related to the Irish or to Chistianity or Ireland or with banners or signs identifying marchers as members of the Plumbers Union or socialists or the Bird Watchers of America–or as homosexuals. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36362.)
In regrettable breaks with long-standing traditions, missing from the Boston Irish festival were Beantown’s Irish-American Democrat Mayor Marty Walsh and the Big Apple’s new Communist/Democrat Mayor Bill De Blasio.
Joined by beer-makers Guinness, Heinekin, and Sam Adams, both mayors boycotted their respective city’s parades for the same reason–refusals by principled parade committees to succumb to demands by the mayoral duo and their homosexual supporters to turn family-oriented parades into walking advertisements for the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender (LGBT) movement.
No doubt their presence would have been replete with the obscene gay exhibitionism typical of homosexual parades in previous San Francisco and “Gay Pride” marches in New York City, Boston, and elsewhere.
More so in Massachusetts than in New York, and still reflecting the powerful influence of the LGBT lobby, politicians were in short supply this year following failed negotiations between a gay advocacy group and parade organizers.
Just before the six-week negotiations collapsed, Mayor Walsh, whose sexual proclivities aren’t publicly known and who was barely two months in office, announced in an obvious effort to pressure the organizers to comply with his and the LGBT’s demands, “It comes down to being able to identify yourself in the parade.”
Walsh went on to say, ”If the gay community is marching with me, whether they’re veterans or anybody else, if they can’t be identified like every other group in the parade is identified, I will not be marching in the parade.”
No one is on record noting his absence anymore than anyone much cared that Mayor De Blasio had insulted every person of Irish heritage in New York by refusing to participate in NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Often incensed for one thing or another, gays have been especially livid for years over parade policy that no one is ever permitted to march and advocate any cause not expressly related to the Irish or to Chistianity or Ireland or with banners or signs identifying marchers as members of the Plumbers Union or socialists or the Bird Watchers of America–or as homosexuals. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36362.)
