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_Maxolotl t1_j8z23p2 wrote

Reply to comment by spoil_of_the_cities in Community Board implores NYC Mayor Adams to defund exclusionary Staten Island St. Patrick’s Parade by I_AM_TARA

It wouldn't be a religious requirement.

The Pope doesn't exclude gay people from Catholicism or Catholic Church properties. And he's infallible according to Catholicism. So the cavemen who run this parade can't claim legitimately their bigotry is based on religion unless they want to tell us they're not Catholic.

They can't claim it's about Irishness either. The head of Irish government is gay, FFS.

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spoil_of_the_cities t1_j8zqk58 wrote

OK so here's the nuance: the gov't under secularism cannot refer to the dictates of the Pope. If the Pope is for allowing gay people in the parade but this particular Catholic is not, this internal dispute is none of the gov'ts business.

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_Maxolotl t1_j8zrz5o wrote

OK, so the Community Board should have a new meeting, and petition the city to pull Larry Cummings' parade permit because he's a huge douche, and that they all agree that he's a huge douche, for reasons completely unrelated to religion.

Then Adams can say "you're right, what a douche," and give the parade permit to some Irish American homosexuals who we all agree are cool for reasons completely unrelated to religion.

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spoil_of_the_cities t1_j8ztf10 wrote

And then this dude sues and says "obviously this is actually because of my religious belief". I dunno who wins

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_Maxolotl t1_j8zxxnr wrote

I'm old enough to remember when Trump explicitly declared a "Muslim Ban", had that ruled unconstitutional, and then came back with a ban on persons from (list of a bunch of countries that by sheer coincidence are majority Muslim), and won.

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OneYungGun t1_j94poae wrote

The government is not allowed to rule on who is or is not a true Catholic.

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