St Patrick's Parade: Gays, KKK, and Neo Nazis Need Not Apply

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from AlterNet's PEEK:



St Patrick's Parade: Gays, KKK, and Neo Nazis Need Not Apply

Posted by Katie Halper, Scanner at 3:21 PM on March 17, 2008.

Nothing says Happy St. Patrick's Day like telling Gays and Lesbians to step aside.



Nothing says Happy St. Patrick's Day like telling Gays and Lesbians to step aside, which is why, since 1991, the New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade has excluded "the gays" from the festivities. But before people get their shamrock-pattern panties all up in bunch, you should find out why having gay-free Gaelic activities is so important. John T. Dunleavy, Chairman of the New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade, explained "If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem*, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?"

Now, whatever you think about the gays, you have to admit, Dunleavy is on to something. Because, of course, long before the Nazis eliminated 6 million Israelis**, and the KKK terrorized thousands of blacks in Jim Crow South, the gays starved one million Irish to death, during the great potato famine, stealing the staple crop, in a sinister plot to make the most fabulous rosemary-infused potato shallot souffle ever.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/79998/

[slackmaster]

1. The Onion did a piece on groups banned from the St. Patrick's Day Parade

One was Ye Prancing Faeries of Balmoral.

[joeybee12]

2. Well, from a trusted authority, gays are more of a threat than terrorists...

...oh wait, that was a nutjob from Oklahoma, not a trusted authority.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

3. UNBELIEVABLE! Thanks for posting.. I had no idea.

What an asshole John T. Dunleavy is.

[xchrom]

4. and souffle would have been Fabulous too --

but somebody got over-excited making margaritas in the shaker -- and the souffle fell.