New York Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t march in St. Patrick’s Day parade
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pepipop
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This continuous gay lobbying is getting ridiculous now. Do gay parades all dress in green and hail St Patrick during their events? All parades have their own reasons for being held, end off.
crainsnewyork.com/article/20140204/POLITICS/140209953/de-blasio-boycotts-st-pattys-day-parade
Patrick’s Day parade, deciding to skip one of his city’s signature celebrations because the event organizers refuse to let participants carry pro-gay signs.
Mr. de Blasio will become the first mayor in decades to sit out the traditional march along Fifth Avenue.
“I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city,” said Mr. de Blasio on Tuesday during an unrelated press conference at City Hall. “But I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade.”
The parade, a tradition that predates the city itself, draws more than 1 million people each March 17 to line one of Manhattan’s most famous thoroughfares to watch about 200,000 participants. It has long been a mandatory stop on the city’s political trail, and will include marching bands, traditional Irish dancers and thousands of uniformed city workers.
Since the 1990s, the event’s ban on pro-gay signs and banners has spurred protests and litigation and led to the creation of an alternative, gay-friendly St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens. Also sitting out with be Comptroller Scott Stringer. In recent years, several elected officials—including Mr. de Blasio when he was public advocate—attended the inclusive parade and boycotted the traditional parade.
crainsnewyork.com/article/20140204/POLITICS/140209953/de-blasio-boycotts-st-pattys-day-parade
Patrick’s Day parade, deciding to skip one of his city’s signature celebrations because the event organizers refuse to let participants carry pro-gay signs.
Mr. de Blasio will become the first mayor in decades to sit out the traditional march along Fifth Avenue.
“I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city,” said Mr. de Blasio on Tuesday during an unrelated press conference at City Hall. “But I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade.”
The parade, a tradition that predates the city itself, draws more than 1 million people each March 17 to line one of Manhattan’s most famous thoroughfares to watch about 200,000 participants. It has long been a mandatory stop on the city’s political trail, and will include marching bands, traditional Irish dancers and thousands of uniformed city workers.
Since the 1990s, the event’s ban on pro-gay signs and banners has spurred protests and litigation and led to the creation of an alternative, gay-friendly St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens. Also sitting out with be Comptroller Scott Stringer. In recent years, several elected officials—including Mr. de Blasio when he was public advocate—attended the inclusive parade and boycotted the traditional parade.
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Ridgerunner
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If I were an Irish New Yorker, I would be glad that de Blasio didn’t sully the parade with his presence.
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Trader
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As my Irish mother used to say, “There are two kinds of people in the world, those who are Irish, and those who wish they were Irish.”
This is clearly a case of envy of the Irish. We honor Saint Patrick for bringing Christ to our ancestors, which is contrary to calling sodomy a good thing.
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PatrickC
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Good riddance.
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DoGodsBidding
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SuperLuigi
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I’m so sick and tired of the gay lobby shoving their agenda on us at every opportunity.
BTW, I wonder if he’ll make the same public when Ramadan rolls around again?
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Lochias
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'cause everyone knows that St. Patrick totally supported homose…er, wait…
What a freaking maroon. I’m glad he’ll be sitting out.
What a freaking maroon. I’m glad he’ll be sitting out.
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Tarpeian_Rock
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As the anti-Catholic disrespect continues in New York - and in the state whose governor has said that observant Catholics aren’t welcome to live there - it’s not hard to envision the de Blasio administration some year refusing to even issue a parade permit for St. Patrick’s, on the grounds of it offending “diversity.”
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Memaw
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Who needs him, we should be thankful. Some people put way to much importance on themselves. God Bless.Memaw
meltzerboy
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Almost all recent prior mayors, except Dinkins, marched in the St. Patrick’s Day parade, including Koch, Giuliani, and Bloomberg. It’s not meant to be a day of politics but rather a day of celebration (and, unfortunately, excessive drinking).
De Blasio is making one faux pas after another. For instance, his handling of the recent snow and ice storms has been somewhat less than satisfactory, in Staten Island particularly as well as the East Side of Manhattan. Also, the fact he refuses to close the NYC public schools on a day like this during which driving and walking are treacherous (think school buses) shows his lack of wisdom, besides the fact the decision not to close the schools was made in the morning rather than the evening before. Even realizing that being mayor of New York is a very tough job, it’s quite a disappointing start for De Blasio, and one which reflects negatively on his judgment more than his liberal politics.
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Lochias
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I guess I can get behind this, yes. I think this latest decision of his is largely driven by a desire to earn political points with the gay agenda, but as you point out he’s also made some choices that are simply stupid, regardless of his political leanings.
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RPRPsych
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'cause everyone knows that St. Patrick totally supported homose…er, wait…
What a freaking maroon. I’m glad he’ll be sitting out.
You had me at “maroon”. Bugs Bunny rules!
meltzerboy
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Further, de Blasio’s proposal to cut funding for charter schools (which Cuomo, to his credit, supports) is a bad move. Why can’t New York support BOTH traditional public schools and charter schools as an alternative for parents and children? I’m not so much in favor of vouchers, which I think may have the effect of doing a disservice toward the improvement of public education as well as toward private schools, which are not equipped to handle the influx of additional, unprepared students; but charter schools, on the other hand, can be implemented as a viable means of education provided they are managed efficiently. By his lack of support for these institutions, de Blasio is betraying the very New Yorkers who contributed most to his election as mayor. De Blasio is revealing himself more as an ideologue than a liberal thinker (yes, the latter does exist).
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SuperLuigi
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Well, that’s what happens when Americans vote for someone just based on political affiliation or to feel good inside and that’s exactly what happened in NYC.
To quote Sean Hannity “you get the government you vote for”.
No more excuses.
Unions and the desire to get democrats elected. New Yorkers need to wake up from the fog and realize all this “we care” the Democrats bleat about is smoke and mirrors. The majority of them don’t care about minorities, inner city folks or “the children” enough to give of their own personal stock, for one.
Until blue staters admit that, these concerns will never be addressed.
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Lochias
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meltzerboy
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I assume the same applies to voting for a Republican. And I would add that sometimes people vote for a particular candidate who they believe to be far from perfect because they consider the policies of the alternative candidate!
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Lochias
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Would the KKK be allowed to carry their signs and insignia in a Black History Month parade?
No, I hear?
Then why would the gay / lesbian agenda be allowed to carry THEIR advertisements in a SAINT PATRICK’S Day parade?
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Lochias
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Nope. Perhaps he just has an unfortunate lack of common sense, and is choosing to look like a spoiled child instead of acknowledging a private event’s right to allow who it wants to demonstrate / advertise.
As noted before, the the previous mayors in recent history were very much pro “gay marriage” and the like, but at least they were possessed of some common sense, to varying degrees.
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Lochias
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I’m saying it doesn’t matter if they do. Nobody is being unfair to the gay agenda in New York, of all places. They have their own parade, legally allowed them under law, where they can do whatever they’d like.
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