Parade chairman compares Irish gays to Nazis, Klansmen, hookers

[quaoar]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3731782.html

By VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK — Protesters joined bagpipers, marching bands and thousands of flag-waving spectators at the St. Patrick's Day parade Friday after the parade's chairman compared gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.

As huge, happy crowds lined the streets, the chairman, John Dunleavy, sidestepped questions about his remarks to The Irish Times.

"Today is St. Patrick's Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage, everything else is secondary," he said before the start of the Fifth Avenue 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?"

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

[meegbear]

1. So gays are anti-irish?

THIS is why I do not acknowledge march 17. Go through this shit every year with the fucks in South Boston.

[Skinner]

2. What a dick. (nt)