But as Red Skeleton used to say: "If I dood it, I get in trouble. I dood it anyway."
I will resist this time...
This really is momentous, groundbreaking news. I would ask the moderators to please consider putting this in “Breaking News.”
Catholics Can't Vote for Pro-Abort Politicians: Cardinal-Designate Burke
Focus on the Family -- Someone has access to that leadership?
and so on...
Additionally, Los Angeles has one of the largest Jewish populations in the world. Los Angeles and New York City used to be the two largest. I don't know what the current numbers.
But Carly Fiorina could benefit from this, as well as the candidates in Connecticut and Delaware...
The RAA is like the RC Cola to the Rabbinical Council of America’s Coca-Cola.
Also, the RAA spokesman in the original article is batshiate crazy and blamed the Haiti earthquake on voodoo worship and homosexuality back in February.
The RAA did however condemn Kagan when she was up for the Supreme Court seat.
The RAA is also the group that endorsed then unendorsed NY Republican candidate Carl Paladino for his condemnation and then apology for anti-gay remarks.
ALl in all, the RAA make great theatre, I strongly doubt even their pews follow then national leadership as they go off half cocked on political tangents pretty often.
Forgot to mention this one... oldly but goody,
the scum of the earth over at the Southern Poverty Law Center once included the RAA in it’s list of domestic hate groups. Currently the “People for the American Way” frontgroup also have RAA and Yehuda Levin listed as a hategroup.
ABRAHAM HECHT AT BORO HALL: A visit to Brooklyn Borough Hall by controversial Rabbi Abraham Hecht and his Rabbinical Alliance of America drew the ire of one of our readers.
In June 1995, Hecht offered a religious justification for the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Four months later, Rabin was assassinated. Hecht was banned from Israel for two years, but eventually apologized and was given a reprieve.
According to a Jewish Press article, at the group’s conference at Borough Hall, Borough President Marty Markowitz spoke of his long friendship with Hecht, who in turn spoke of Markowitz’s long friendship with the alliance.
The alliance has been described by Hatewatch.org (a subsidiary of the Southern Poverty Law Center), as “an extremist organization opposed to basic human rights.”
In 1997 the group said it would boycott the U.S. Holocaust Museum if it referred to gay victims of the Holocaust. Such material would be “a perversion” an alliance spokesman testified before Congress, adding, “Do we have a prostitutes’ exhibit?”
The alliance’s homophobia apparently persists: The Jewish Press account of the Borough Hall event included a detailed description of the group’s fight against gay rights in Jerusalem.
We e-mailed the reader’s complaint to Markowitz, who replied:
“This group asked permission to hold one of their breakfast meetings at Borough Hall and at no time did I or any member of my staff participate in their agenda, and other than a brief opening remark, I was not present during the course of their meeting. Many organizations have meetings and receptions at Borough Hall. It is a “public” facility. I do not have to personally agree with each group’s agenda nor do I or my staff “screen” the organization’s purpose or agenda for their gathering in Borough Hall.”
That didn’t satisfy the reader, who asked rhetorically if a Muslim cleric who’d called for the Israeli prime minister’s assassination would be welcome at Borough Hall.
Not Catholic, but wondering why, oh why aren’t abortion-promoting liberal *Catholic* candidates and politicians BANNED from the Church???
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I have seldom seen such moral clarity as Rabbi Levin's statement below:
Rabbi Levin concluded: "Let no person think that this directive is merely an intellectual exercise. This is a call to action to uphold the natural and moral law with pro-active voting according to our religious values. There can be no middle ground when it comes to the Sacred Laws: Marriage is between one man and one woman, and respect for all human life is obligatory. Now go out, spread the word and vote accordingly."
Rabbi Levin is pretty much a one-man band, using a mailing list from a same-named organization from years ago. Bet it would be hard to find 1,000 rabbis who have even heard of him, much less think he’s their leader.
He issues press releases to Christian organizations on just about everything, so, no, it’s not breaking news.
Not saying he isn’t doing God’s work, just saying he has more influence in the Free Republic community than in the Jewish community.