NYC mayor to skip St. Patrick’s parade over policy on gays

How it’s New York: The St. Patrick’s Day makes EVERYONE Irish.
Bill de Blasio ©Kevin Case
Bill de Blasio ©Kevin Case
How it’s Irish: Including homosexuals in the St. Patrick’s Day is a hot button issue.

NEW YORK (AP) – Mayor Bill de Blasio is not planning to march in the nation’s biggest and oldest St. Patrick’s Day parade unless its organizers change their limitations on displays of gay pride. De Blasio skipped the march a year ago and currently intends to do so again, aides to the mayor said Monday. This…