Catholic League President Bill Donohue would be a happy addition to any Pride parade
When St. Patrick’s Day parade organizers in New York and Boston refused to allow gay groups to march, beer companies dropped their sponsorships and the mayors of those two cities refused to participate.
So Catholic League president Bill Donohue figured what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. He began a boycott of Guinness, the New York St. Patrick’s Day sponsor that pulled out, and he applied to march in the New York gay Pride parade. And New York’s Pride committee said yes.
The LGBT groups who wanted to march would have stuck to the theme and held banners that said, “Gay, Irish and Proud.”
Donohue wants to march under a banner that says “Straight is Great,” which goes off topic.
“Straight is great — as long as there’s no hate,” said David Studinski, march director of NYC Pride, according to GLAAD, which broke the story.
Several weeks ago, in an interview, Donohue said, “If I wanted to get into their gay pride parade with my own float with big banners saying ‘straight is great,’ they would have a right to feel put-upon and I wouldn’t do that to them.”
Apparently, now that he was successful at blocking gays and lesbians from openly participating in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, he’s changed his mind and decided to see just how put upon he can make the LGBT community feel.
