Remark About Gays Shadows St. Pat's Parade
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer
March 17, 2006
NEW YORK - The chairman of the nation's biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade sidestepped questions Friday about his incendiary remarks about gays, as bagpipers and bands marched past hundreds of thousands of flag-waving spectators.
"Today is St. Patrick's Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage. Everything else is secondary," said the chairman, John Dunleavy, who set off a firestorm this week by comparing gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes. (full story)
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Discrimination, in any of it's ugly forms, must never be tolerated. Someone needs to remind Dunleavy that it wasn't all that long ago that Irish-Americans faced terrible discrimination and violence in this country. His comments about gay and lesbian Americans are just the justification some extremists need to inflict violence today. Come on, it's 2006 already ... get over it!!
Don't agonize, organize ... that's my mantra. Change won't happen unless you work to make it happen! But sometimes even your best efforts don't provide the results you were looking for. Or sometimes a situation is just so completely outrageous that all you can do is say ... YIKES!
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