The burning of posters and effigies of people on Eleventh night bonfires should be treated as a hate crime, the grand secretary of the Orange Order has said.
"I think this needs to be addressed but I don't think it's through legislation, I think work needs to be done with the bonfire builders and the local communities and councils to try and come up with solutions to those who still think it's alright to burn posters or effigies on bonfires," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"I'd prefer to see no effigies or flags on a bonfire," he said. "Bonfires are about the celebration of unionist and loyalist culture, and I don't think we need to denigrate another culture or another country so we can celebrate. The Orange Order does not organise bonfires. The pyres are generally planned and built by local community groups and lit the night before the Twelfth of July parades run by the Orange Order.
I hope he means it. Do they realise that if they stopped with these effigies and stopped singing about fenian blood their marches could be better tolerated?. Its the bigotry and triumphalism that pisses people off.
The obvious question arises: Would he consider the burning of a Union Jack a hate crime?
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