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To: markomalley
We haven't changed the Torah in thousands of years. You think we would tamper with something written by G-d to placate a bunch of perverts specifically named by G-d as abominations? Welcome them? They would not be welcome in most homes, and certainly would be kept far from families' kids.

And forget about anything "Rabbi" Denise says. She carries absolutely NO authority pertaining to Jewish matters. According to Jewish law, women cannot be rabbis. A giraffe could call itself "Rabbi", but that doesn't make it so.

9 posted on 07/06/2015 10:19:31 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC
We haven't changed the Torah in thousands of years.

Whether you take "Torah" to mean the first five books or the more general if less precise 24 books of the Tanakh, it has been a long time since the Torah has been amended. The process for amendment is simple: G-d sends a prophet whose writings are accepted by the Jews as divinely inspired. Whether by sending the next Moses, the Messiah, or the next Malachi, G-d is the only one who can create a valid change to the Torah.

Similarly, the process for lawfully changing the Constitution of the United States is perfectly clear. Whether in a group as with the first ten Amendments, or individually as with the next seventeen real Amendments, changes can only be made through the process specified in the Constitution. Other claims created by any other means have no moral validity (even if they act as legal precedents because a judicial activist issued the change in an unsupported opinion).

12 posted on 07/06/2015 11:27:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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