Orange Walk

I wisny having a go at anyone

I`m a very nice person,honest:icon_mrgreen: Unless yer a hun(i don`t mean you).

 

I know you werent mate.You are one of the affable types in here.

 

read that wrong there,thought you said i was effable.

 

The Orange Order respect Catholics like the Ku Klux Klan respect black people.

 

does that mean they don't like us?

 

I think they don`t like us but they do respect us.
I think i`ll give them more of my time ,as they do respect me.
Do you think i`ll be made welcome?

 

I wasnt really trivialising, I just dont really grasp what is "sectarian" about the orange marches? (I am not saying they arent, just that I dont understand them and noone has explained why they are). I also think it is perhaps not to trivialise an issue such as orange walks when it seems so few of them has any notion of what the Battle of the Boyne actually was - they celebrate the historical myth rather than anything based on real events. The republicans then take offence based on the myth, and it seems noone actually gives a toss about what actually happened!

I dont like them because I think they are triumphalist and they encourage stupid people to fight between themselves. But I always think people are very guilty of using the term "sectarian" to mean something offensive or something they dont. What I am getting at is that Im not sure why banging a drum, dressing up like a *, and celebrating the Battle of the Boyne is "sectarian" in itself? If they are not singing anti-catholic songs I struggle to see why it is a "sectarian" issue, espcially when the Pope backed William against James II.

The Battle of the Boyne was a victory for the Catholic Church, not a defeat.

 

Wear a rosary around your neck and take yourself along to an Orange walk. You'll soon find out what is sectarian about these marches.

 

They've been giving it all the tunes in my street on and off all day.

In fairness, though, they need to have something to do at the weekend now that even their football team is consigned to history.

 

I've not heard anything this year, suppose that's the only good thing about getting older and losing quality in the ear drums.

* wanks

 

Lucky you. * woke me up at 8am.

 

Is there people here who do not know how the Orange Order are Sectarian ?

 

Woken up at 7:30am because of these *, who the * even has the energy to bang a drum at 7:30am in morning?

 

Band of * the lot of them

 

1. The founding documents of the Orange Order say, 'An Orangeman should not merely be somebody who has hostility towards the distinctive doctrines, the superstitions, the priestcraft and spiritual despotism of the Church of Rome.'


2. The 'Constitution, Laws and Ordinances of the Loyal Orange Institution of Ireland' (1967) states: "No person who at any time has been a Roman Catholic ... shall be admitted into the institution, except after permission given by a vote of 75pc of the members present founded on testimonials of good character.


3. Today, as always, each member of the Orange Order is pledged to: “strenuously oppose the fatal errors and doctrines of the Church of Rome, and scrupulously avoid countenancing (by his presence or otherwise) any act of ceremony of Popish worship; he should by all lawful means, resist the ascendancy of that Church, its encroachments, and the extension of its powers”.


4.. Early in 1992, loyalist gunmen killed five Catholics who were in a betting shop on the Ormeau Road in Belfast. Months later, a parade along the road sparked fury when some of the Orangemen present made "five-nil" hand gestures as they passed the murder scene.The then Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew accused those responsible for the taunts of behaving like 'cannibals' ".


5. On July 12, 1996, Robert Saulters - who was later elected Grand Master of the Orange Order on December 11 - told the Orange Order, that the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, " has already sold his birthright by marrying a Romanist. He would sell his soul to the devil himself. He is not loyal to his religion. He is a turncoat "


6. A few years ago, George Galloway, then an MP, described the Orange Order as "sectarian, anti-Catholic, Protestant-supremacist". A defamation suit was pursued against him by the Orange Order in Britain. Judge Lord Kingarth who threw out the case, ruled it was "a fair comment on that organisation".






Just copied that piece above.

Joke of an Organisation,how anyone can say they nor their Marches are Not Sectarian is beyond me.

 

Two orange walks in my village today including one at 8am, makes me angry.

 

Good points

 

seen fat sallys been at the manky mob marches today... hope he breaks his neck in a horrible accident complete * of a human

 

Was he?

How do you know this...