Re: Gay groups denied request to march in St. Patrick's Day parade

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On Mar 15, 5:32 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gay groups denied request to march in St. Patrick's Day paradeText
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> March 15, 2012 4:42 PM
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> against drug-resistant bug BOSTON — Gay, lesbian, bisexual and
> transgender people will not be marching in the annual South Boston St.
> Patrick's Day parade on Sunday after two groups received rejection
> letters from organizers.
>
> MassEquality, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the rights
> of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents, applied to march
> in the parade organized by the Allied War Veterans Council.
>
> The veterans group said no, citing the 1995 U.S. Supreme Court case
> Hurley vs. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Group of Boston,
> which ruled parade organizers do have a legal right to decide who
> marches in the parade.
>
> Join the Impact, another gay, lesbian and transgender group in Boston,
> was also denied permission to walk in the parade this year. The
> Irish-American group marched in the parade in 1992 after obtaining a
> court order, but no gay or lesbian organization has walked since the
> Supreme Court ruling, according to Kara Suffredini, executive director
> of MassEquality.
>
> Suffredini said her organization has bigger concerns than marching in
> the parade, but added it was "emblematic of more life-altering
> rejection that LGBT people face in Massachusetts every day."
>
> Suffredini said there is nothing the group can do to fight for the
> ability to march. Changing attitudes is the bigger task, she said.
>
> "I think this is the work we do every day of changing hearts and
> minds," Suffredini said. "There will be a day when we will be welcomed
> in this parade."
>
> More:http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120315/NE...
>
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> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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