Posted on 11/20/2016 4:51:45 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
Two complaints of incitement have been filed to the police against Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar for comments he has made calling men and women from the LGBT community “a cult of abomination,” and stating that they are liable to the death penalty according to Jewish law.
Several more complaints are expected to be filed on Friday.
Amar’s comments created a fierce political backlash from members of Knesset and the Jerusalem City Council who helped get the rabbi, who was Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel from 2003 to 2013, elected to his current post.
Amar made his comments in an interview with Yisrael Hayom to be published this weekend.
In the interview, Amar said that he related to Reform Jews through the prism of the biblical injunction to “turn away from the tents of evil people.”
Asked about his attitude toward the LGBT community, the rabbi said, “This is a cult of abomination, this is clear. This is an abomination. The Torah requires a death sentence for this. This is in the first row of the most severe transgressions.”
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The rabbi fears the God of the scriptures, as he ought.
He IS a rabbi, what did they think he might say? Oy!
The homosexuals are terrorizing the rabbinate, or attempting to.
The rabbinate needs to stop trolling the ignorant.
Whatever that means.
Baruch Hashem!
The Gaystapo has a sin problem.
Here’s the most supportive comment I can direct to the LGBT community:
Please get help for the sexual abuse you’ve suffered, and help protect others from the same abuse.
It is the source of your confusion.
The rabbi is not preaching hate or anything like it. He’s merely reciting what God has told us in the Bible. Which is part of any biblical cleric’s job duty. Homosexuals are still allowed to
Live in Israel and they even have their parades there like they do in USA. They would never actually be executed even if the rabbi were somehow put in charge. jewush law requires very high standards of evidence in capital cases — so that almost nobody ever gets the death penalty anyway. Too vomplex to type it all here but that’s the bottom line. The rabbi will certainly continue preaching- it’s his job to try to dissuade folks from doing things God doesn’t like. It’s a persuasion thing.
The word of God is the truth revealed to man. When brought face to face with the truth ( and there is an absolute truth given by the creator of the universe) one may accept and repent or reject and live in rebellion. Choose wisely and live.
That is the best advice you can give them.
It sounds like textbook Judaism to me. What’s the problem?
Leviticus 18:22 What did they expect him to say.
Looks like corruption exists in Israel, too. Like tje Rabbi owes his position to a government faction and isn’t allowed to speak truth. It’s my hope that the hard hearted ones will repent, seek God’s face, so their land will be healed. If tjey do that, their enemies will ve vanquished.
Worshiping a god that doesn't agree with the Bible is no different than falling down in front of a carved stump. When Peter was told not to preach Jesus, he quickly decided to follow God's law and not man's law.
Murder is forbidden. Homosexual act is a sin against Hashem, not man. We aren't the animals hanging homosexuals from cranes.
Judging by the responses on this thread. not many study Torah. That's a problem.
IDK, maybe they were expecting him to be a reform Jewish rabbi.
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