Word: sbawvc
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...last two years, since the nation's attention focused on Boston and Cambridge when the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council (SBAWVC) canceled their traditional St. Patrick's Day parade in order to prevent an Irish homosexual group from participating, the inclusion of gay groups has taken center stage...
Last year, the SBAWVC called their parade a "protest march," to circumvent a court order which forbade the exclusion of homosexual groups...
...rather than abide by the courtorder, the SBAWVC canceled the parade, disruptinga 92-year Boston tradition...
...Patrick's Day parade, but there isan element of protest in it," said ChesterDarling, attorney for SBAWVC. "My clients areprotesting the forceinduced inclusion of messagesthat they do not want propagated...
GLIB has appealed the lower court's rulingwhich permitted SBAWVC to hold this year's protestmarch and exclude gays from the parade. The U.S.Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on April25, Van Ness said...