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Alan D. is a little full of himself here. Since when is it "bigoted" to excercise a right to do business with whom one (in this case the church) chooses?

Yes, in many Americans' (including mine) opinions, Israel has done nothing (or little) wrong in dealing with the scourge that is the Palestinian "resistance." However, its not like the church is advocating violence, or even denying the funding of social and/or educational ventures.

The church has simply taken a peaceful position of protest. Playing the "bigot" card is totally disingenuous and pig-headed, in my humble opinion.

For what its worth, I'm Jewish.

Since when is it "bigoted" to excercise a right to do business with whom one (in this case the church) chooses?

When it's based on ignoring the hatred and genocide spewing from the lips of the people you are supporting.

Just because you have the "freedom" to do business with whomever you wish, doesn't mean that your choice isn't for bigoted reasons.

In this case, it's anti-semitic.

Alan D. is a little full of himself here. Since when is it "bigoted" to excercise a right to do business with whom one (in this case the church) chooses?

I think if you look up the word bigot, you will not find any reference to legal rights. Bigots are free under our constitution to engage in bigoted behavior. It is their attitude that is bigoted.

Prehaps you mave mistaken bigotry for "discrimination", a word which has taken on legal implications.

I respectfully disagree. To ignore the atrocities committed by the Palestinians is to condone them. It's like the Holocaust deniers. They state that they are against genocide. But then they deny it existed. In reality they condone what Hitler did.

Since when is it "bigoted" to excercise a right to do business with whom one (in this case the church) chooses?

Ok, how about "pathetically hypocritical"? You can build a Presbyterian church in Israel, but not in Saudi Arabia. So why aren't they divesting from Saudi investments? What about all the other countries whose civil rights pale in comparison to Israel?

It sounds as of the Presbyterian Church gets its sermons from Noam Chomsky, who has been preaching Israeli divestiture for years. This is as pathetically hypocritical as the UN.

"Since when is it "bigoted" to excercise a right to do business with whom one (in this case the church) chooses?"

We used to have signs in this country's businesses which said "Whites Only" and job announcements which said "No Irish Need Apply."

The PCUSA's bigotry is self-evident, the conscious, intentional decision to do evil against a nation solely on the basis of its faith.

The proof of this is manifest: no sanctions against the non-Jewish perpetrators listed by Dershowitz, all of whom have authored obscenities which by comparison render Israel's acts of self-defense imperceptibly insignificant, and which endanger our and the world's peace much more severely.

It is plain anti-Jewish hate, and that is bigotry pure and simple, no matter how you, and they, attempt to rationalize it.

Equally great a crime however is the adoption of a policy based deliberately and consciously on lies. Goebbels never did worse than what the Presbyterians have done in this statement of their apostasy. They as a corporate church have left the Christian faith and plunged into the outer darkness.