Organizers of the Boston St. Patrick's Day parade have decided to bar any LBGT and OutVets veterans from the parade. Uh, oh.
- Mayor of Boston calls for an all out boycott of the parade.
- Anheuser-Busch is threatening to pull their sponsorship and not include their clydesdales in the parade.
- Mass Fallen Heroes Executive Director Dan Magoon said in a statement he was withdrawing as chief marshal of the parade this year because he can’t support the council’s decision.
- Republican Gov. Charlie Baker also said he would not participate, while Democratic U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton called for a boycott of the parade. Moulton, who served four tours of duty in Iraq, has marched with OutVets previously.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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