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NEW YORK , March 19, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The largest American Catholic civil rights organization is taking on the largest brewer of stout beer in the world. The Catholic League ’s Bill Donohue has called for a boycott of Guinness after the beer company pulled its sponsorship of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade because organizers barred homosexual activists from marching. Guinness is owned by British liquor giant Diageo . “The corporate officers at Guinness who think they can get away with this in-your-face gesture are sadly mistaken,” Donohue said. “There is a price to be paid for anti-Catholic bigotry, and that is exactly what is driving Guinness to act.” “No gay person has ever been barred from marching in any St. Patrick’s Day parade, any more than the parade bans pro-life Catholics or vegetarian Catholics; they simply cannot march under their own banner,” he explained. “The parade is quintessentially Catholic. … It is this Catholic element that angers...

BOSTON, MA , March 17, 2014  – The Catholicity of Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities is causing some politicians and businesses to reconsider their celebration of the famed Irish saint. Today is one of the most important feast days for English-speaking Catholics worldwide. In North America, March 17 has tended to constitute for many a cheery pause in the soberer season of Lent. However, two cities that have had a long tradition of marking the day with parades are feeling pressure from the gay-lobby. New York has had a St. Patrick’s Day parade since 1762 and Boston since 1737. “Both cities have huge Irish populations—combined, I would guess more than in Ireland itself.  One could even argue that the modern State of Ireland owes its existence to the Irish in New York and Boston,” said Irish historian, Peter Murphy, in an interview with LifeSiteNews.  But three beer companies, as well as some politicians, seem to want to redefine that culture. On ...