A Catholic school in Massachusetts is refusing to march in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade for the first time in nearly 25 years because a group of LGBT military veterans were granted permission to participate this year.
Last week, parade organizers said that the LGBT group MassEquality would be able to march in the St. Patrick’s Day after the request was denied four other years.
Brother Thomas Dalton, principal of The Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Harvard, reacted on Monday by saying that band members and students from his school would not attend for the first time in decades.
“The familiar scene of Saint Patrick joyfully giving his blessing to the crowds has, sad to say, come to an end,” Dalton told WCVB. “In the footsteps of Saint Patrick, IHM does not condone and will not appear to condone the homosexual lifestyle.”
“Homosexual acts are gravely immoral and are not to be promoted in any way,” he added.
“We must stand firm with the Church which states in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope John Paul II, that ‘homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity’ and ‘are intrinsically disordered… Under no circumstances can they be approved.’”
Yes clearly it is impossible for the Catholic's to participate in anything that even remotely condones the behavior sodomites. Unless of course it is priests sodomizing young boys, THAT must be covered up and excused at all cost.
I find it interesting that the Catholics are perfectly fine with participating in parade that essentially promotes heavy drinking, and outrageous behaviors, but let two men hold hands, and they lose their ever loving minds.
I guess it is perfectly fine if you are drunkenly mauling some barmaid while wearing a "Kiss me, I'm Irish" t-shirt, just so long as you yourself are not another female doing it.
And where was the good brother Tom while Cardinal Law was overseeing the mass rape of children by priests in the Bay State? Holy mother of God as we Irish say they sure do a good job protectin' the kiddos from bad influences there!
ReplyDeleteHeh. What about kilts?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.scottishtartans.org/irish_kilts.htm
"But who is responsible for the myth of the Irish kilt? Noted scholar Henry McClintock believes that the idea may have originated with one Eugene O’Curry, Professor of Irish History in the Catholic University of Ireland, who first proposed the idea of the Irish kilt in ancient times in his 1860 Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish. McClintock also mentions “a well-known antiquarian”, Patrick Weston Joyce, who strongly advocated O’Curry’s claims in his Social History of Ancient Ireland, which was published in 1903. Kass McGann cites McClintock’s claim that Joyce mistranslated the word “Leine”, in reference to an ancient Irish shirt, as “kilt”, in her article “Proof against the Existence of an Irish Kilt”.
In his Old Irish and Highland Dress, McClintock states his belief that it was Joyce’s book that put the idea of an Irish kilt firmly in the minds of many, as the book was “widely read and carried much weight at the time.” (McClintock, 123) Indeed, McClintock believes that it was Joyce that inspired Irish pipe bands to adopt the saffron kilt (which was also mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses). McClintock is quick to suggest that those who took Joyce and O’Curry at their word were not to be blamed, as they had “what seemed to be ample authority” for adopting the kilt as a form of Irish dress.
Who were these individuals that adopted the kilt? One was Sir Shane Leslie of County Monaghan. Born in 1885, John Randolph Leslie came from a prominent Anglo-Irish family, and attended Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, where he converted to Roman Catholicism, taking the Gaelic name Shane. Leslie became a devoted Irish nationalist as well as Roman Catholic, and adopted the “traditional” Irish saffron kilt, and began a personal campaign to urge the adoption of it in 1906, according to Janet and Gareth Dunleavy’s biography of the Gaelic League’s founder, Douglas Hyde. (p. 317)
A description of Leslie in an article in Time Magazine in February, 1957 describes him as cutting a “glorious Irish swat through London on his visits, tricked out in mutton-chop whiskers, cockaded tam-o-shanter, green kilt and dagger in the stocking.”"
Pope:
"Another nationalist, who was later killed in the Easter Uprising of 1916, Eamonn Ceannt, wore a kilt when playing
the uileann pipes during an audience with the Pope in 1908. (O’Neill, p. 44) Indeed, kilts were quickly adopted by
a number of pipers and pipe bands in Ireland in the days before the First World War. Several of these bands are
still in existence, including the Black Raven Pipe Band, the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band and the Youghal Pipe
Band."
Modern kilt, yes.
DeleteBut there was a longer and less regimented kilt that was worn. It was banned with the English takeover. The romantics brought it back but it was a shorter and more structured and controlled garment.
I think the traditional kilt was more akin to a male sari than the modern "skirt".
From Wikipedia:
DeleteThe Breacan an Fhéilidh (belted plaid) or Feileadh Mòr (great plaid) is likely to have evolved over the course of the 16th century from the earlier 'brat' or woollen cloak (also known as a plaid) which was worn over a tunic. This earlier cloak or brat may have been plain in colour or in various check or tartan designs, depending on the wealth of the wearer; this earlier fashion of clothing had not changed significantly from that worn by Celtic warriors in Roman times.[2]
Over the course of the 16th century, with the increasing availability of wool, the cloak had grown to such a size that it began to be gathered up and belted. The belted plaid was originally a length of thick woollen cloth made up from two loom widths sewn together to give a total width of 54 to 60 inches, and up to 7 yards (6.4 m) in length. This garment, also known as the great kilt, was gathered up into pleats by hand and secured by a wide belt. The upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the left shoulder, hung down over the belt and gathered up at the front, or brought up over the shoulders or head for protection against weather. It was worn over a léine (a full-sleeved garment stopping below the waist) and could also serve as a camping blanket.
A description from 1746 states:
The garb is certainly very loose, and fits men inured to it to go through great fatigues, to make very quick marches, to bear out against the inclemency of the weather, to wade through rivers, and shelter in huts, woods, and rocks upon occasion; which men dressed in the low country garb could not possibly endure.[3]
For battle it was customary to take off the kilt beforehand and set it aside, the Highland charge being made wearing only the léine or war shirt.
The exact age of the great kilt is still under debate. Earlier carvings or illustrations prior to the 16th century appearing to show the kilt may show the léine croich, a knee-length shirt of leather, linen or canvas, heavily pleated and sometimes quilted as protection. The earliest written source that definitely describes the belted plaid or great kilt comes from 1594.[2] The great kilt is mostly associated with the Scottish highlands, but was also used in poor lowland rural areas. Widespread use of this type of kilt continued into the 19th century, and some still wear it today.
(I don't normally use Wikipedia as a citation, but this article has citations and I don't have time to run down my own.)
From the Department of the Cup is More than Half Full:
ReplyDeleteWhat about the obvious VICTORY? The organizers of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston have allowed the LGBT veterans to participate! Can there be a more Irish Catholic place in the US?? Who cares what the principal of one Catholic High School decides?
How about looking at the doughnut instead of the hole.
Well, when the Pope tells you to hate, you do it and when the Pope tells you to hide criminal pedophiles you do it, because, dunno, God is love, I guess.
ReplyDeleteHow about Leprechauns? Come on, does anyone really think they are totally straight?
ReplyDeletePeople need to worry about themselves and leave the gays alone. It's good that people who were born the way they are get to be what they were meant to be. No more hiding means more freedom for all of us. We are all free to be who we are without pretending to be something we are not.
This is sorta open rebellion against Pope Francis - hope this sorry excuse for a human, Thomas Dalton, get his next gig at the Vatican dog pound. he sure isn't fit to teach kids.
ReplyDeleteI thought they believed in Lucky Charms Er Relics. Oh well, their loss! I'm sure the homosexuals will forgive the ignorance. I doubt they want to be associated with institutionalized hate and pedophilia, anyway.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't this guy read Bradbury?? The Fairies returned to Eire!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame the students of this school will miss this opportunity.
ReplyDeleteBut if this principal thinks he is going to punish the parade, the community or in any other way succeed in changing the minds of anyone he is sorely mistaken.
His band will never be missed. Their spot will be taken by some other school band. Parades like this turn participants away for lack of space because they can't have a parade that is so long it takes 6-8 hours.
So sorry Brother Thomas. You've just punished your own students and the lesson you think you've taught is not going to be the lesson they've learned.