Posted on 06/04/2011 4:30:10 AM PDT by Salman
The first same-sex Jewish partnership ceremony officially to be termed a marriage by Liberal Judaism – a major British progressive strand of the religion – took place in Manchester last weekend.
Liberal Jewish Community members Jeffrey Levine and Roman Hunter-Fox exchanged vows, a ketubah and rings under a chuppah at the city’s Lowry Hotel.
As reported in the Jewish Chronicle, both men performed the traditional glass-breaking, while specially written shevah brachot (seven blessings) were made, including the phrase “Blessed is God that you cause loving companions to rejoice together”, to replace the traditional blessing for a bride and groom.
This was not the UK’s first same-sex ceremony under a chuppah, but it was the first time Liberal Judaism has sanctioned the use of the terms “ketubot” and “marriage” in this scenario.
The ceremony was the first since Liberal Judaism’s rabbinic conference in April, which agreed to treat same-sex ceremonies as proper marriages following its introduction of a same-sex blessing ceremonies in 2005.
The move pre-empts legal changes to the Equality Act currently under consultation by the government. Same-sex marriages are still not legal in the UK, but Liberal Judaism has joined other religious denominations to pressure the government to allow gay marriages in places of worship.
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Couples will still require an additional civil partnership ceremony until the law is changed, but Liberal Judaism has already decided to begin keeping central marriage records.
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For those who thought "gay marriage" pressure on religion would always come from secular authorities. In this particular case it's the other way around.
Catholics are next. Look for a queer canon to be issued soon.
Pulling together sinful congregations that do weird things is as old as the bible. As Christians would put it, sitting in a church service doesn’t make you a Christian any more than sitting in an oven would make you a cookie or sitting in a garage would make you a car.
Oy! The whole thing gives me shpilkis in the genechtagazoink.
They may be Jewish, but they certainly are not Israeli. It is easy for Jews to espouse liberal ideology in the safety of the United States. They are not under the gun, surrounded by hostile nations who plainly say that Israel is to be wiped from the face of the earth.
“I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan”
Revelation 2:9.
but Liberal Judaism has joined other religious denominations to pressure the government to allow gay marriages in places of worship.
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Not in any place where I worship.
I do not believe that Catholics will ever promote same-sex marriages. There may be some pervert priest some day who will go against the Church and perform such a ceremnoy,but it will not be endorsed by Rome.
If and when the Pope endorses this or it happens in my parish that Church will have seen me for the last time.
I am but one, but those who feel that way are legion.
LOL! In your dreams, buddy, in your dreams. About the time Anthony Weiner becomes Pope.
“There may be some pervert priest some day...”
Father Pfleger would be a good bet.
If a Nun married a Nun, what would be the children?
None
Liberals destroy everything they touch. Liberalism is a cancer.
When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.”
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-k.html#CHAPTERXLVII
Sticking a finger into God’s eye. God will not be mocked.
True. For how many years have we been treated to the disgraceful spectacle of the Westboro "Baptist Church"?
There are reasons every society for thousands of years only recognized marriage between men and women; what is with these people who must rediscover those reasons, instead of paying attention to the lessons from the past?
Liberal Judaism is nonsense. If you liberalize something enough it ceases to be what it was. Just saying something is Judaism or Christian does not make it so.
Will never happen.
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