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Guinness announced Sunday that it will no longer sponsor the New York City parade along Fifth Avenue on Monday because organizers won’t let the LGBT community openly march. The move by the Dublin-based company reflects a growing split between conservative American Irish and an increasingly liberal Ireland.
Metallicus
Guinness announced Sunday that it will no longer sponsor the New York City parade along Fifth Avenue on Monday because organizers won’t let the LGBT community openly march. The move by the Dublin-based company reflects a growing split between conservative American Irish and an increasingly liberal Ireland.
I don't understand why it is so important for an army of gay people to prance around in a St. Patrick's day parade. Being gay doesn't have anything to do with St. Patrick and in fact it is offensive to many who celebrate this as a religious holiday.
Sometimes political correctness is just taken too far and it ends up alienating people who would otherwise be supportive of LGBT causes. I know I fall into that category.
ETA: I do understand that Guiness can do whatever they want, but I think they are wrong in this particular instance.
The Source
edit on 2014/3/17 by Metallicus because: ETA
ChaosEpsilon
Homosexuality is a mental illness. It's fine to have one but not right to parade a mental illness around and show it off to people like it's the most normal thing in the world. Guinness is free to do what they want, but it won't stop me from thinking they're ridiculous.
Metallicus
Sometimes political correctness is just taken too far and it ends up alienating people who would otherwise be supportive of LGBT causes. I know I fall into that category.
What’s noteworthy about this is that the removal of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses was not triggered by some scientific breakthrough. There was no new fact or set of facts that stimulated this major change. Rather, it was the simple reality that gay people started to kick up a fuss.
AccessDenied
Metallicus
Sometimes political correctness is just taken too far and it ends up alienating people who would otherwise be supportive of LGBT causes. I know I fall into that category.
This is a day to be proud of IRISH HERITAGE,