Judge Upholds Ban on Gay Vets in Parade
Associated Press
NEW YORK —
An American Legion Veterans Day parade is a privately sponsored event and homosexual veterans are not entitled to march in it under their own banner, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Constance Baker Motley said Wednesday that because there is no governmental involvement in next Monday’s parade, the American Legion, which runs the event, may bar members of the Gay Veterans Assn.
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