St. Patty's parade chair: Gays like Nazis, KKK, prostitutes

[kpete]

Parade Chairman Makes Anti-Gay Remarks By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer
10 minutes ago


NEW YORK - The chairman of the nation's biggest St. Patrick's Day Parade marched Friday while sidestepping questions about remarks comparing gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.


"Today is St. Patrick's Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage. Everything else is secondary," said the chairman, John Dunleavy, who wore a sash of the Irish colors.

Dunleavy was blasted by the City Council's first openly gay leader for the remarks, which appeared in The Irish Times on Thursday.

He told the newspaper, "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?"

About the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization, Dunleavy said, "People have rights. If we let the ILGO in, is it the Irish Prostitute Association next?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060317/ap_on_re_us/st_patrick_s_day
via:

[EST]

1. Dumbheads tend to remain dumbheads, no matter

their heritage.

[KyndCulture]

2. damn.. that was so uncalled for....

[im10ashus]

3. I refuse to attend.

I am gay and Irish and quite frankly incensed at his comparisons. I could walk through the park to the east side right now and watch the parade but my conscience has prevented me from doing so.

[KyndCulture]

10. Good for you!! nt

yep us irish folks aren't immune to the fucktard invasion.

[im10ashus]

11. Not that I won't be celebrating with a Guinness later today.

:toast:

:-)

[4morewars]

4. WOW !

What a fuckin embarrassment. Where do they find these dinosaurs ?

[MADem]

5. The sonofabitch should change his name to Dumbleavy

Wow, talk about smearing an entire culture with the remarks of a bigoted "chairman." I imagine some folks wouldn't have any problem crowning that dipshit with a chair.

May the road rise to meet him (in his FACE)

May the (BREAKING) wind be always up his nose!!

[Big Kahuna]

6. I wonder if the pedophile priests will have a float in the parade?

[KyndCulture]

13. Damn good question!!

[Fenris]

7. All that booze has rotted out his brain.

[WilliamPitt]

8. Irish people are stupid, too

Stone the crows.

[converted_democrat]

9. This man is an embarrassment to mankind.. n/t

[Tyler Durden]

12. After I got PISSED on as a "PROD" on another thread....

...along with relatives killed in the troubles by PROVOS, This attitude looks mild to me.

[name not needed]

18. Oh, shut the fuck up already.

"Everyone look at me! I wore an orange shamrock!" This thread has NOTHING to do with what you're whining about.

[Cleita]

14. Why not. Irish prostitutes helped build the west in this country.

Shouldn't they have a day too to honor their patriotism?

On edit, a link:

http://wondersmith.com/heroes/wildwest.htm

My favorite is Molly b'Dam

[Crankie Avalon]

15. As someone who has lived most of my life in the neighborhood where...

...the parade ends, I respectfully say that this very parade itself is an embarrassment and an imposition. Going home in the evening on clogged streets where one has to negotiate around the stumblings of legions of drunken and therefore frequently truculent boors is not something to which I am looking forward today.

It's ironic that this "chairman" sees fit to snub a group that would really only "class up" his shabby, impossible-to-make-any-worse event.

[im10ashus]

16. LOL!

I am not going anywhere near the mess today.

[Kailassa]

17. If I was organising it, YES.

Any organisation that is Irish and proud of it and not there to do or promote harm should be welcome.

[Henny Penny]

19. What an asshole!

Sorry about this guy.... I hate to think that someone like this is allowed to run anything never mind something supposedly Irish!!

:evilfrown:

Is this the attitude in all American St Pats parades or just NY?? I think Danny LaRue led the Dublin parade a few years ago.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

20. What organization is in charge of the parade in New York?

Check this out, they wouldn't even let this organization march today down Fifth Avenue:

"Also barred from the parade was the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, which lobbies on behalf of undocumented Irish immigrants in the United States."

Mr. Dunleavy, you are a total and complete gobshite....