Bloomberg shares parade duties with New Paltz mayor

[JoFerret]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--queens-stpatrick0307mar07,0,4741851.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has sent mixed signals on same-sex marriage, and New Paltz Mayor Jason West, who was criminally charged for performing them, both marched in the gay-inclusive Queens St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday.

"What we are seeing in America today is the largest flowering of a civil rights movement this country has seen in a generation," said West, the Green Party mayor of a small upstate village. "And I'm honored and surprised that I was put into a position to be able to articulate some of that movement."

Bloomberg was more circumspect, telling parade-goers, "If you are successful in getting the law changed in Albany you can rest assured that this city will enforce the law."