I wanted to comment on the article written by Dan Phelps, "Marching toward a day this won't even matter."

Sorry, Dan, but as usual you miss the point. Everyone understands this parade is privately funded, "so their parade, their rules." What you have failed to see is that Mass- Equality is more than "a gay organization." It helps many different kinds of people.

Your suggestion of "don't make a big deal of your sexual orientation" is exactly why there is such prejudice in the world. If you were to walk in this parade with your wife and children and you all held hands, would you be "flaunting your heterosexuality"? If I were there doing the exact thing, would I be accused of "gaying up" the parade?

This parade is about pride in your Irish heritage, and as you point out there are gay Irish people. If people want to use religion to keep homosexuals from marching in this parade, the same should be said of divorced people, those work on Sundays, take the Lord's name in vain, and worship false idols.

It is clear-cut cherry-picking; that is why this is such a frustration. It makes me laugh; it is always people like yourself who claim "how much the world is changing."

You have no idea what the world looks like from my family's perspective, and you never will.


Nashua, N.H.