By Jennifer Delson
Times Staff Writer
The Minuteman Project citizen patrol, known for its skirmishes over illegal immigration, is now in a skirmish over a Laguna Beach parade.
At issue is the 40th annual Patriots Day parade, a homespun event put on by a nonprofit group in Laguna.
The Minuteman Project applied this month to participate in the March 4 event through downtown Laguna but was rejected by parade organizers, who cited the 25-year-old parade bylaws that say, "No religious or political entries shall be permitted."
The Minuteman entry "is obviously a political entry," said Charles J. Quilter II, vice president of the Patriots Day Parade Assn. "This isn't that kind of event. It's got Brownies and Boy Scouts and Friends of the Library."
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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