Another level on which he's wrong.
By now you've probably seen this quote from John Dunleavy, the chairman of the NY St. Patrick's Day parade, defending the exclusion of gay Irish groups from the parade:
Dunleavy set off a firestorm this week when 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?"
Predictably, others have called him out (surprisingly, Kip and Knappster aren't among them, yet) for comparing gays to the Klan, neo-Nazis, and prostitutes. And they are right to do so.
But he's wrong on another level.
Neo-Naziism is by definition antagonistic toward Israeli groups. The KKK is incompatible with African-Americanism.
How, exactly, is homosexuality incompatible with Irishness?
posted by The Last American at 9:54:00 AM
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Dude, I can't be everywhere at once!
What would you have me say except, "What a prick..."?
"What a prick" would do nicely, actually.
:)
Homosexuality isn't incompatable with Irishness, it's incompatable with the Catholic religion.
St. Patrick's Day, the parade, is a Catholic thing along with being an Irish thing. That's where the controversy comes in.
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