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- <text id=93TT0936>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Maybe It'll Rain
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 23
- Maybe It'll Rain
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Church and state battle over a St. Patrick's Day parade
- </p>
- <p> Cardinals and big-city mayors ought to have greater concerns
- than deciding who marches in local parades. But in New York
- City's hopelessly fractious public discourse, a spat over
- including homosexuals in the annual St. Patrick's Day
- celebration has once again grown into a political war. After the
- organization that has staged the parade for more than 150 years
- refused to permit gay groups to march under their own banner,
- Mayor David Dinkins handed control of the parade to an ad hoc
- group that favored including the gays. John Cardinal O'Connor
- used his pulpit to decry Dinkins' transmogrification of "the
- religious to the political." A judge will rule whether the
- parade is a religious or public event.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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