Or, to restate in unbiased language, they don´t have a damn thing to do with the holiday and are therefore irrelevant to proceedings.

We go through this every year.

Good.

And when they have a "what´s your sexual preference day parade", you will be invited.

Oh, no! Terrible...

And what did St. Patrick have to do with this type of stuff?

Perhaps if they were Irish, or Catholic, or had chased snakes out of the land, or some combination thereof....OK. But just to "celebrate" their sexual persuasion? No.

Quit whining and save your energy for the Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick parade.

Perfect, #1.

Lettuce Guacamole Bacon Tomato.

They are, however, welcome to march as Irish people, if their desire really is to be in the parade.

Exhibitionism is a sexual perversion that seems to have some correlation with other forms of sexual deviancy. Much of the public, attention-seeking, quasi-civil rights activities of a small segment of the homosexual community appears to be rationalized and justified exhibitionism, a deliberate and even erotic attempt to display and call attention to private sexual preferences. All homosexuals are not exhibitionists and publicity-seekers. Those who are forever clamoring to get in front of microphones and cameras and into the news media are very likely driven by compulsions of which they and their media enablers are largely unaware.

Some athiests in Kansas City are griping because they weren´t allowed in the St. Patrick´s Day parade but the KC parade is privately funded so they have no recourse. Do you think "gays" would like to have to accept a Westboro Baptist float in all their parades?

Would they be marching in kelly green assless chaps?

Previous poster nails it - if allowed, they´d be tricked out in green thongs, bondage gear, or worse yet, religious garb, making fun of the Catholic Church (think Sister Boom Boom and the Order of Perpetual Indulgence). What religious organization wants that?

Let them have their own parade for sodomites and perverts.

Bravo Mr. Schulte! As usual, these homosexuals are just trying to hijack your traditional parade.

Let them find their own day to parade, like April 1st, or May 1st, when they could all frolic around a Maypole like a bunch of exhibitionist fools.

What´s that you say...? The Commies wouldn´t let them hijack Mayday either?

News Flash for GLSEN and other "wag the dog" minority groups: your days are over. The owners of this country, the Big Dogs, are shaking off the fleas and other parasites. We are going to get healthy and stronger.

these fascist LGBT types remind me of the type of people who like to ruin other peoples fun. buzzkillers

find some transgendered saint and march your asses off on his/her day

It´s not a gay pride parade, it´s a parade to honor St. Patrick. Stupid people.

If they want to march in the parade, they can march as regular citizens. No affiliation of any kind. But then we wouldn´t know they were gay if they did that.

Parading on the basis of your sexual gig may be a dicey way to honor a saint, but still, let´s take this charge of discrimination seriously.

Are there other groups participating in St. Patrick´s parade who organize around the banner of their various sexual preferences? Fundamentalist Mormon polygamists? London Rent Boys? Afghan Bacha Bazi? Irish adulterers? Anal Heterosexuals? Sex Toy Enthusiasts? If so, the exclusion of the GSLEN group is discriminatory.

And if not, not.

When the people opposed to the gay and the rest of the alphabet soup lifestyle and the Pro life groups, are allowed to march and demonstrate with their relevant placards in the various Gay Mardi Gras Parades, talk to us! The feast Day of St. Patrick celebrates a religious figure from a religious tradition which does not approve of the gay lifestyle.
He is not a secular figure like John Bull or Uncle Sam.