My post was not satire. Why should I have my rights to celebrate St. Patrick's day if I don't allow the same rights to others? And the more it is trivialized and everyone joins in and has a good time the better off everyone will be.

If they are waving banners that say death to Catholics, then stop them from doing that. If they are just putting on their Sunday suits and playing accordians and rambling down the road, whether or not I like them, or like the music, or the drums give me a headache, or their ancestors did bad things to mine, I have to let them proceed and in fact I should find a way to join them peacefully if they don't mind...if, and this is a big if, they just remind me of past wrongs, and they are not intentionally doing anything bad presently but I just don't like what they are doing, it is my duty to suck it up. Avoid it. Make other plans for the couple of hours it takes place. And control any teenagers I might have bred. mg