Tag Archives: St. Patrick’s Day

NEW YORK CITY: St. Patrick’s Day Org To Allow One Gay Group To March In 2015

New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day organization today announced that one LGBT group will be allowed to march behind its own banner during the 2015 parade. The parade committee, in a statement made available to The Associated Press, said on Wednesday that OUT(at)NBCUniversal, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender support group at the company that broadcasts the parade, would be …

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Irish Beauty Queen Comes Out

The Rose Of Tralee is a competition in which Irish communities around the world send a beauty queen to the finals in Ireland’s County Kerry. This year’s winner is Philadelphia resident Maria Walsh, who just came out. That may prove to be a problem for New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day group. Via Irish Central: Right on cue a host …

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Paging Bill Donohue

Details.

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SOURCE: Bill Donohue Is Angling To Be Named Head Of NYC St. Patrick’s Parade

A reliable source who wishes to remain anonymous today tipped me that Catholic League blowhard and anti-gay activist Bill Donohue has submitted himself to be named the head of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade.  According to my source, the other leading candidate is Quinnipiac University president John Lahey, who is thought to be a more moderate voice …

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Bill Donohue: Knights Of Columbus Will Join My Boycott Of Guinness Beer

“We have amassed over 7,000 email addresses from the Knights of Columbus, constituting over 1,500 councils across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Today, we are asking the Knights to join us in our boycott of Guinness. We are confident that many Knights will participate. How do we know? Because we have been contacted by many councils already, …

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Headline Of The Day

Via Irish Central: President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has been invited to become Grand Marshal of the 2015 NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade. According to a press release published on its homepage by parade committee, the committee has personally written to the Russian president to invite him to become the parade’s Grand Marshal in 2015. The historic invite will silence …

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Bill Donohue: I Beat NYC Pride

“I want to be very honest with you. This was a ploy, and they took the sucker’s bait. I wanted to push them to tell me when I didn’t agree with your rules that you weren’t going to go along with it. I won on it. I had no intention of marching in the parade. Let’s just say that [parade …

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Bill Donohue: My “Straight Is Great” Group Would Have Overwhelmed NYC Pride

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: The day before Catholic League head and anti-gay activist Bill Donohue announced that he wouldn’t participate in the NYC Pride Parade even though organizers accepted his application to lead a “Straight Is Great” parade contingent, Donohue told conservative talk show host Steve Malzberg that the parade organizers are maneuvering to keep him out …

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Bill Donohue Launches Guinness Boycott

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue has launched his promised boycott petition against Guinness beer. Gays have never been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day parade—they simply cannot march under their own banner. Neither can pro-life Catholics. The message of the St. Patrick’s Day parade is simple: it is to honor St. Patrick. It is not about any other …

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GLAAD Head To Donohue: March With Me

“As a fellow Irish New Yorker, I’m hoping Bill will march with me at NYC Pride. I look forward to the day when I can march openly with Bill in the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and not be turned away because of who I am.” – GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis, inviting Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue to march …

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NYC Pride Agrees: “Straight Is Great”, Catholic League Welcome To March

On Sunday, Guinness Beer announced that it was dropping its sponsorship of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade over the event’s long-running exclusion of LGBT groups. That move prompted an immediate outcry from anti-gay groups, the loudest of which has been the NYC-based Catholic League, whose leader Bill Donohue yesterday demanded permission for his group to march in the 2014 …

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Bill Donohue: I’ll Make Guinness Suffer

“If the Guinness corporate bullies think that this is a flash in the pan, then they don’t understand the Catholic League. But they will—we are not going away. There is a price to be paid for anti-Catholic bigotry, and that is exactly what is driving Guinness to act. Gays have never been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day …

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Gay Pride Parades Are Lewd Displays

We’ll have to save this one for when the usual screamers launch their complaint campaigns in June.

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Gary Bauer Has The St. Patrick’s Sadz

“Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams have cast their lots with the militant homosexual rights movement and withdrawn their sponsorships of New York City’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. The beer companies are attempting to claim the moral high ground, shaming the Catholic organizers of the St. Patrick’s Day parade because they will not allow open homosexuals to march in the …

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Ben Shapiro Has The St. Patrick’s Sadz

“Apathy is not good enough when it comes to the radical gay bullies who now insist that every event carry the stamp of their movement. And so sponsors like brewer Sam Adams in Boston and Guinness in New York pulled out of the parade. Guinness pulled out after radical gay groups threatened to march to Stonewall, a historically important point …

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Petition Of The Day

Sign it and think about Bill Donohue.

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Todd Starnes Has The St. Patrick’s Sadz

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Bill Donohue Has The St. Patrick’s Sadz

“Diageo, the parent company of Guinness, and Heineken, have pulled their sponsorship of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade; the Boston Beer Company, maker of Sam Adams, has withdrawn its sponsorship of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. None of these companies believe in diversity. No gay person has ever been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day parade, anymore …

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Rupert Murdoch: Boycott Guinness Beer

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Scott Lively Marches In Boston Parade

Hate group leader Scott Lively marched in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade yesterday. Lively told the press that he marched in solidarity with the parade organizers who banned LGBT groups from participating. Lively, a Shelburne Falls native who owns the Holy Grounds coffee shop in Springfield, is running as a independent candidate for governor. He said he marched with his …

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