Taking it to the streets

New York Journal | With a combination of in-your-face power and festive celebration, homosexual paraders put their cause on display | Marvin Olasky

NEW YORK CITY— Four dates in 2007:

On March 24, WORLD published its first special issue on cities.

On May 23, according to UN demographers, over half the people of the world for the first time in history (or at least since the Tower of Babel) lived in urban areas.

On June 22, WORLD opened its first New York bureau.

And the city celebrated this magazine's arrival by having, two days later, an enormous parade in its honor.

No, the Sunday parade was not in honor of WORLD or the biblical worldview it tries to represent: In fact, nine men and women who said they adhered to that worldview were the targets of obscene words and gestures for four hours.

But more about that in the sidebar: In this first report of what will be an occasional series set in the nation's largest city, let's start from the beginning of this year's biggest Gay Pride parade, which followed passage of a same-sex marriage bill by the Democrat-dominated New York Assembly (the lower house of the state legislature).