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| Orange Order says protests will follow Ardoyne parade decision | Orange Order says protests will follow Ardoyne parade decision |
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| The Orange Order has said there will be "protests in the coming days" over the Parades Commission's decision on a north Belfast parade. | The Orange Order has said there will be "protests in the coming days" over the Parades Commission's decision on a north Belfast parade. |
| The commission ruled that the order could not hold a return parade along a contentious stretch of road on 12 July. | |
| The order said the commission had created a "crisis" with its decision to ban the parade past Ardoyne shops. | |
| It added that it was its "earnest intent and prayer that the protests will be peaceful". | It added that it was its "earnest intent and prayer that the protests will be peaceful". |
| Orange Order Deputy County Grand Master for Belfast, Spencer Beattie, said it would no longer tolerate the "vindictiveness of the Parades Commission". | |
| He said the order asked that the commission "is no longer recognised, acknowledged or engaged with by any member of the unionist community." | |
| "It is a determination that will halt progress towards a shared future and will set back community relations," he added. | |
| "You cannot have a shared city when Protestants are excluded from two of the main arterial routes into Belfast; you cannot have a shared future where Christian music is banned from our streets. | |
| "Belfast is not a city of equals when the Parades Commission, at the behest of nationalists, discriminates and demonises the unionist community." | |
| Mr Beattie said the Parades Commission's decision on the order's feeder parade past Ardoyne shops showed that "violence pays". | |
| He said he looked forward to actions "planned by our unionist politicians and parties that will show - no longer will our British culture be attacked with impunity". | |
| "The Protestant unionist loyalist community has had enough - the rot stops now," he added. |