Catholic League’s Bill Donohue calls for boycott of Guinness over St. Patrick’s Parade flap
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...