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LA Times
December 14, 2013
Despite the unrelenting objections of gay rights activists, city leaders in the heart of America’s largest Vietnamese-American community voted unanimously to give a permit to organizers of a Lunar New Year parade who vowed to block gays from participating.
Members of the Westminster City Council voiced sympathy to those barred from the colorful Tet parade, but said they had no choice but to grant the permit, since they had been advised by the city attorney that organizers of a private event have a free-speech right to determine its content.
After listening to comments from opposing sides for about an hour and a half, an angry councilwoman, Diana Carey, finally said, “I spent my whole … life fighting against discrimination…. But having said that, I took an oath to support the Constitution and First Amendment rights. As egregious as this is, I have to support this.”
Viet Rainbow of Orange County’s efforts to land a spot in the parade, one of the signature events in Little Saigon, has grown into a test of will between increasingly sophisticated activists and some tradition-bound immigrants who have dragged their feet in recognizing gay rights.
Members of Viet Rainbow had asked council members to reject the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California’s application for a permit, calling it “an organization that has a history of discrimination.”
