CHRISTIAN FIREFIGHTERS FORCED TO DRIVE IN "GAY-PRIDE" PARADE

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COURT RULES ON CHRISTIAN FIREFIGHTERS' 'GAY-PRIDE' SUIT

Forced to drive truck in parade despite religious objections

After more than 10 years of litigation, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island has thrown out lawsuits by two Christian firefighters who were forced to drive a Providence fire truck in a “gay”-pride parade despite their religious objections.

The firefighters, Theodore Fabrizio and Stephen Deninno, both of whom are Roman Catholic, argued they should not be mandated to participate in such an event since their personal faith neither supports nor condones homosexuality.

Writing for all five members of the high court this month, Justice William Robinson called it a legitimate work assignment, saying their appearance in the 2001 parade as public servants was “relatively anonymous.”

“The respondents’ appearance in the parade, solely as members of the Providence Fire Department, did not constitute a form of expression on their part. Rather, it was simply the accomplishing of a task assigned to an engine company of the Providence Fire Department,” Robinson wrote.

The two lawsuits were originally filed in 2004 against former Mayor Buddy Cianci and James Rattigan, the fire chief of Providence in 2001.

The firefighters were seeking both compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their freedom of religion and speech.

“Our policy was to send a fire truck to any parade that made the request, if one was available and the truck’s participation did not compromise public safety,” said Cianci. “Why should the gay-pride parade be any different than the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the Purim Parade, or any parade in Providence? It shouldn’t, and it wasn’t.”

Cianci was the first mayor of Providence to fly the rainbow flag over city hall and to serve as grand marshal of the gay pride parade. In 1997, he was also the first elected official in the state to establish the Office of Gay Liaison within his administration and to appoint members of the city’s LGBTQ community to that position.

After a hearing in September on the firefighters’ lawsuits, Cianci complained about the glacial pace of the case before the court.

Judge Robinson also made reference to the slow pace, calling it a “jarndycean piece of litigation,” an apparent reference to the fictional case Jarndyce v. Jarndyce in the Charles Dickens novel “Bleak House,” which drones on for so long and is so complicated that no one alive knows what it means.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/court-rules-on-catholic-firefighters-gay-pride-suit/#sRaum45ez6DD3CD2.99

My comments: Now in America, a Parade is a Parade, no matter how Vile what is being paraded? America now embraces "any Parade." They Paraded in Sodom too--for a season, and then they were no more.