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Catholic League President, Bill Donohue, furious about Guinness opting for diversity and fairness and pulling out of the New York City St. Patrick’s day parade, applied to march in this year’s NYC Pride Parade with a banner that says, “Straight Is Great.”

Donohue, who is strongly anti-gay and an opponent of LGBT rights, said on a conservative radio show, “Are they going to let me do it or not? I’m waiting to see what they want to say,” he said, explaining the pride parade organizers require participants to carry LGBT signs. “All right, you can disagree with their rules, but that’s their parade. Why don’t they respect us when it comes to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade?”

“That’s cool,” say parade organizers. Parade Managing Director Chris Frederick said that the Catholic League truly is welcome to march, pointing that it’s “probably not the first time” that a “Straight is Great” sign has been shown in the parade.

In a statement issued this morning, David Studinski, the March Director of NYC Pride, proclaimed, “Mr. Donohue and his group are free to participate in the 2014 March. His group’s presence affirms the need for this year’s Pride theme, ‘We Have Won When We’re One.’ Straight is great – as long as there’s no hate.”

Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, asked Donohue to march with her in the parade.

“As a fellow Irish New Yorker, I’m hoping Bill will march with me at NYC Pride,” Ellis said. “I look forward to the day when I can march openly with Bill in the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and not be turned away because of who I am.”

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Carrie Stone