Gays No Different than Neo-Nazis? KKK?

Banning Irish gays from participating in the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade is getting to be as much of a tradition as wearing green. This seems to be the only major Irish-pride parade where gays are banned and the reason was made by clear by chairman John Dunleavy: gays are banned for the same reasons that Neo-Nazis and the KKK are banned.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

“Today is St. Patrick’s Day. We celebrate our faith and heritage, everything else is secondary,” [John Dunleavy] said before the start of the Fifth Avenue parade.

Well, not everything.

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?”

The KKK wouldn’t be allowed to march with African-Americans in Harlem because the KKK stands in opposition to the civil rights and liberties of African-Americans. The same would be true of letting Neo-Nazis march with Israelis. Thus, it seems clear that the analogy being used by John Dunleavy is that gays stand in opposition to the civil rights and liberties of Irish-Americans.

Does this make even the least little bit of sense? No. Gay rights groups were not created specifically to oppose Irish-Americans in any way. Homosexuality and Irish-ness are separate categories, not opposing categories. For John Dunleavy to even suggest that they might be mutually exclusive and opposing indicates that either he has no conception of what he’s talking about or is deliberately shading the truth in the pursuit of a larger agenda.

 

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