New York City mayor to skip St. Patrick’s Day parade over ban on pro-gay signs
NEW YORK, February 6, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – New York City's new mayor is continuing his public fight against pro-life and pro-family organizations, this time becoming the city's first mayor in 20 years to boycott the annual St. Patrick's Day parade because organizers will not allow pro-homosexual signs. On the heels of his support for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo 's belief that social conservatives have “no place in the state of New York ,” Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters on Tuesday that he is “not planning on marching in the parade,” and that he has not marched “in the past in [his] capacity as an elected official.” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio De Blasio said his reasoning was “exclusion of some individuals in this city” by “organizers of the parade.” Parade organizers have said that while homosexuals may march in the parade, activist pro-homosexual groups may not display banners or other means of supporting homosexual relationships. Catho