Congressman to march with gay vets in St. Patrick's parade
By adamg on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 6:51pm
First-term US Rep. Seth Moulton will march with OUTVets in the St. Patrick's parade in South Boston this Sunday, the group says.
Moulton, a Salem Democrat who is himself a Marine veteran of the second Iraq war, said he was proud to be part of the first LGBT group in the parade.
I'm incredibly proud to march with OUTVETS in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade. Gay rights is the civil rights fight of our generation. We talked last weekend about the steady march toward freedom and justice with the anniversary of Selma. This is an extension of that march. We have made great progress, but we still have a long way to go.
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Bravo!
More courage than 90% of congress.
Yup!
True enough!
Where's Charlie?
And Polito?
We know how Polito feels
We know how Polito feels about gays and lesbians, but Charles is an unknown. He tells the story about his brother being gay, but we know now not to trust Charles' fish stories. Even so, having a gay family member unfortunately does not confer compassion or understanding.
Good for him!
And I hope the Hibernians STFU
Good for him. I'm not the
Good for him. I'm not the parade-type myself but I'm glad to see someone aligning with the OUTVets.
What kind of first term politician
marches with a bunch of gay vets in a parade? How does this guy expect to get ahead if he's not out provoking war and possibly violating the Logan Act?
Sheesh!
Will his opponent march with him?
As I recall, Tisei has a personal stake in this.
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Revised parade route, anyone?
The official parade website still has the originally planned route posted, with no indication whatsoever that this information is now out of date. Then again, that web site also still says that the parade organizer is "To be announced." Still, four days before the event?
NECN posted what they claim to be the new parade route. The map shown (West Broadway to East Broadway to Farragut) doesn't match the article text which says that the parade will go down East First Street.
P.S. It's going to rain on your parade.
Rain will fall
As will tears of pride and gratitude.
Actually...
there's a decent chance we could see snow on Sunday. How much, if any, accumulation is still up in the air.
Courage on St Patrick's Day
Is riding a Red Line train packed with punks,drunks and pervs dressed in green
It's probably time to change
It's probably time to change the name. The Catholic schools are bailing out. The news doesn't report on anything but the gay agenda. I can't find anything that indicates how St Patrick will be celebrated.
"The gay agenda"
Nice.
Um
Yes the 'gay agenda'.. I'm still waiting for my copy after 25 years...
Will you mimeograph one for
Will you mimeograph one for me if you ever get it? I was left off the mailing list myself.
"the catholic schools"
You mean one catholic school run by a guy who was excommunicated?
That weird non-church school
That weird non-church school does this every year too.
Perhaps a Southie celebration
Maybe there was something that took places around the 17th of March in South Boston history that they could be celebrating. I dunno know, perhaps the evacuation of British troops from Boston in 1776.
You can't find anything about how the parade will be celebrated?
We can't have that! St. Patrick's Day Parade official site.
Official web site that sitll hasn't been updated
with the parade's new, shorter route.
Anyone who relies on that website is going to be disappointed and confused when they arrive in Southie.
I gotcher gay agenda right here baby
Your very own copy of the gay agenda
Forget the agenda - where can I read the minutes?
Well the organizers have said
Well the organizers have said again and again its really a veterans parade (when they were explaining not allowing gay groups or anti war groups to march). So, it hasn't been about the death of St. Patrick in awhile.
Army boots at Ocean State Job Lot
FYI for gay boys and girls, and others who want to get in the spirit of the parade, dressing for the occasion! Or just the weather.
Go away!
Just go away!
Because gay people are never veterans
Right.
Hey, its a parade!
An opportunity to butch up for a fabulous event!
Take your meds and grow up
n/t
Not all Irish are Catholic.
Not all Irish are Catholic. Northern Ireland is predominantly Protestant. I have Irish family on both my mother's and father's sides -- they practice both religions.
Ugh, Saxons
Ugh, Saxons
Not at all
Mostly fellow Celts from Scotland (albeit of a different religious persuasion), with just a thin Anglo-Norman aristocracy.
My mother referred to the
My mother referred to the "orange" irish as "those" people.
She sounds like a class act.
She sounds like a class act.