LGBT’s vs. Saint Patrick

Several major cities including New York City, Boston, and Cincinnati hosted St. Patrick’s Day parades without allowing LGBT participants to advertise while marching. In NYC, Christine Quinn, lesbian activist and candidate for mayor, sat out the parade while claiming,

”… she's both saddened and mystified that the parade continues to bar marchers from displaying any gay-pride messages, a policy that has spurred protests and litigation going back to the 1990s. It has even prompted the launch of an alternative, gay-friendly St. Patrick's parade.

"I've marched in Dublin (in its St. Patrick's Day parade) with visibly identifiable stickers and buttons that made clear we were both Irish and LGBT," she said this week, using an acronym for lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual. "If you can do that in Dublin, in God's name, why can't you do it on Fifth Avenue?"

Organizers say signs or buttons celebrating being gay would detract from the parade's focus on honoring Irish heritage. But gay people do march in the parade and are welcome, said Hilary Beirne, the parade's executive secretary.”

Let’s back up. She won’t march in a parade devoted to an evangelical religious icon because they won’t let her advertise the Brilliant Goodness of Lesbianism while marching? Surely she is not actually mystified by this; her mystification is disingenuous. She knows exactly why.

What she wants, and what all the LGBT activists want, is readily apparent: it is to demonstrate that they have conquered religion. Their banners would declare victory over the Saint which is being honored. It would be a victory of amorality over a specific moral code, a step toward the final paganization toward which the AtheoLeft so assiduously is driven; a victory of the VOID over actual principled behavior.

To be sure, the parade has morphed into more of an “Irish Pride” sort of event. And maybe it should be called just that: Irish Pride Day, rather than St. Patrick’s Day. But it is not. It is still St. Patrick’s Day.

I doubt that St. Patrick would have allowed Quinn to corrupt his efforts, or that he would appreciate LGBT advertisements to be used in his name.

On the other hand, I also doubt that there will be any stopping the AtheoLeft/LGBT irrational attacks, and that the descent into cultural tolerance of any and all abomination can be slowed, much less halted. It is pimped daily on the screens dominated by networks and Hollywood. And the only remaining illegal action is to object to it: that is an act of hate.