St. Pat’s organizers snub gays, Veterans For Peace

Dan82 · Mar 20, 2011

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/r...g_the_only_way_we_can/srvc=home&position=also

Organizers of the St. Patrick’s Day parade in South Boston are thumbing their noses at the “peace parade” making its maiden march one mile behind them today, while police brace for conflict when the anti-war protesters and gay-rights groups take the street.

“There’s no way, shape or form you could have two parades,” said John “Wacko” Hurley, the longtime parade organizer who retired last year after winning legal battles to bar gays and anti-war groups from the march, run by the Allied War Veterans Council of South Boston. “There’s my own parade and that’s it.”

Veterans for Peace secured a city permit this year to follow the traditional parade. Plans call for the approximately 500 marchers to walk behind street sweepers cleaning up from the first parade. The annual Irish pride parade bills itself as the second largest such march in the country and draws up to 1 million revelers...

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Emberstone · Mar 21, 2011

weird, real irish people who live in ireland are more accepting it seems these days than irish-americans.

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