Catholic League quits St. Patrick's Day Parade after ban on gays ends

[joeybee12]

A New York City Catholic group has pulled out of next year's St. Patrick's Day parade, just a week after parade officials decided to allow a gay rights group to march in the event under its own banner..

The Catholic League For Religious and Civil Rights, which has marched in the parade for 20 years, made the announcement Thursday, claiming parade officials changed the rules to allow an LGBT group from NBC Universal to march under its own banner while refusing to let an antiabortion group do the same.

"My reasons for withdrawing from the parade have nothing to do with Cardinal [Timothy] Dolan or with gays. It has to do with being betrayed by the parade committee," Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a statement. "They not only told me one thing, and did another, they decided to include a gay group that is neither Catholic nor Irish while stiffing pro-life Catholics."

On Sept. 3, parade officials said they would allow OUT@NBCUniversal to march next year in the hopes of ending a political furor that has surrounded the event.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-catholic-league-out-of-nyc-parade-20140911-story.html

Good, fewer assholes attending now.

[shenmue]

1. Yay!

Bill Donohue is divorced, did you know that?

Son of a gun runs around telling people who can and can't be married, and he's divorced.

I believe in respect and compassion for divorced people, but he does not.

Funny, that.

[Maedhros]

2. Sorry, Catholic League. I just don't care.

My gay friends are way more fun than my Catholic friends.

[RKP5637]

4. My Catholic friends have endless hangups about everything, and they are straight. They

all have persecution complexes of sorts.

[RKP5637]

3. Good riddance! Haters GONE from the parade! People are really getting fed up with the haters! n/t

[underpants]

5. Actually Donohue can't make it. He has a dentist appointment to get his tooth cleaned.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. There are over 230,000 members of the Leauge who pay Donohue over 400,000 dollars a year

out of a 2.75 million dollar yearly budget. The group has tens of millions on hand. This tired old tactic of claiming he's one nut with a fax machine is simply false. The organization is large, the offices are part of a deal with the Diocese, their boards of directors and advisers are chock full of famous names and vast checkbooks.

[Paladin]

10. Could have fooled me.

They certainly don't act like something other than a one-fanatical-member organization. In any case, the parade will benefit from their absence.

[underpants]

12. Free advertising just like Falwell

Donohue was at one time a loon with a fax machine then Fox News continually had him on. Just like Falwell in the 80's Rev. Moon was too unpalatable for the public but the Republicans God Guns and Gays needed a presence on cable news and Jerry was a nice white southern face. Rev. Jeremiah Wright was the dominate force in VCR sermon mailings but they couldn't have him on. Jerry was basically broke but with Rev. Moon money and the free publicity he started making money.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. That's just not true. Donohue is not even the first President of the Leauge. It was 20 years old

when he got the job. He grew the beast, that's for sure,it is the largest Catholic advocacy group in the US But he did so from a suite of offices in Manhattan and using a large staff from day one. His board is full of famous and wealthy names.
These are facts. 230,000 paying members. Not just one guy. I'm sorry if that bothers some who are associated with the same faith, but facts are facts. This is an old group with droves of supporting members. It is a rich group. They don't need free anything, never have. They roll in cash donated from thousands of like minded people.

[Historic NY]

26. LOL

[hunter]

6. St. Patrick is to Ireland what Our Lady of Guadalupe is to Mexico.

That's all I'll say because my own heresies run damnably deep.

I think the more conservative Catholics like Bill Donohue of the Catholic League are clueless about the history of Christianity; all the good, bad, and ugly. They are among the ugly.

Compared to Saints Patrick, Brigit, and Columba, the Saints of so many of my ancestors, this Bill Donohue is small, mean, and not so bright. He is not expanding the faith, he withers it. Serious cold water shrinkage.

Much like Mardi Gras, a fabulously gay St. Patrick's Day celebration is a good thing.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. By that they meant. "That one dude...." t

[Bluenorthwest]

9. There are over 230,000 members of the Leauge who pay Donohue over 400,000 dollars a year

from a budget of 2.5 million or so. It is a large organization with direct ties to the Diocese of NY and a board of directors full of rich, famous people. I get that these facts are uncomfortable for some, but they are facts in spite of the inconvenience.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. I don't know what you're going on about facts being uncomfortable yadda yadda yadda.. I always

make fun of this dickhead because whenever the group is mentioned he seems to be the only one representing it. I've never heard of any other spokesman, vice president, treaurer etc. So he's ridiculed as being a lonely lunatic who masturbates to angel porn or whatever. I have no connection to catholcism or christianity. I don't give a shit about either. If those numbers are true. Everyone involved should be embarrassed and exposed, for all I care. You should really look into getting a sense of humor.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Well sorry to mistake you for one of the always present 'he's just one guy with a fax machine'

posters who always come to threads about Donohue. Apparently you are not one of them. Those numbers are true, everyone involved should be embarrassed and exposed. It is also true that anytime there is a thread about him, people will claim he's some solo basement nut. It's a very predictable meme. I've seen it dozens and dozens of times. And I have never found it particularly amusing, no.

[REP]

25. Neither uncomfortable nor surprising

Donohole is just such a miserable fuckface it's fun to pretend he's an angry old man in a basement, but he's not. He's the ugly face of mainstream 'fundamental' Catholicism. (Mel Gibson and his father are the ugly faces of less mainstream fundamentalism.)

[Rex]

11. You mean that one guy and his dog?

Oh noes...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. When I saw the Penguin coming at me with a ruler, I was outta there. Frank Zappa

[Aristus]

14. It's a shame that Irish-Catholics don't know anything about being an oppressed, abused

and disdained minority.

They might be more sympathetic to the gay community...

[hunter]

21. Being an oppressed, abused, and disdained Irish Catholic is part of my own herritage.

My wife and I both have many Catholic and Irish ancestors who fled to the Americas when things got too hot -- to "wild west" U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico.

My own grandparents, who ended up in Hollywood and the Southern California shipyards and aerospace communities, they were very protective of the gay community.

For me, reminiscing, it's sad I've lived in a society where gay people had to be protected like this.

Secrets are corrosive.

I'm still protecting an ex girlfriend. Silence.

Here's a photograph from one of my great aunt's albums of her friend, Hollywood star Ramon Novarro :



He was murdered on October 30, 1968, by brothers Paul and Tom Ferguson, whom he had hired from an agency to come to his Laurel Canyon home for sex. According to the prosecution in the murder case, the two young men believed that a large sum of money was hidden in Novarro's house.

A few prominent LGBT people slept on my parent's sofa when we were kids, sometimes after being kicked out of their parent's homes.

But in 'sixties and 'seventies U.S.A. it was strictly "don't ask, don't tell."

Still crying sometimes...

[Aristus]

24. Thank God for your parents and grandparents.

Literally, thank God. They were doing God's work. Protecting the oppressed and the downtrodden is one of the most Godly things a human being can do.

[Marrah_G]

16. Good riddance

That guy is an evil, nasty little man.

[MADem]

17. Now all the people boycotting the thing will come back, so that's a good thing.

That Donohue ass is such a hateful fella. He should maybe read up on that guy Jesus, whose universal church he claims to tout, and maybe try modeling his life on that fella instead of acting like such a noxious ass.

I'd like to know how he knows that the membership of that 'gay group' aren't Catholic? OR Irish? Surely he didn't take a poll, now, did he? Send out a survey to the membership? And who isn't Irish on St. Patrick's Day?

What a miserable tool that guy is.

[Starry Messenger]

20. Good. Bigoted Irish ruin fun.

[madinmaryland]

22. There is a parade on St. Patricks Day?? Whoda thunk. I thought it was a day when people

just got wicked drunk and puked in public.

[Initech]

23. Bill Donahue is such an asshole I'm not surprised.

[pnwmom]

27. The Catholic league is just a no-nothing group of self-identified Catholics -- not official

at all.