Posted on 03/31/2005 8:52:45 AM PST by carlo3b
March 31, 2005
Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and GREG MYRE
International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions.Now major leaders of the three faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the erroneous impression that homosexuality is acceptable.
"They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel's two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. "It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it."
Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem."
Israeli authorities have not indicated what action, if any, they might take to limit the events. Banning the festival would seem unlikely, though the government could withhold the required permits for specific events, like a parade.
Interfaith agreement is unusual in Israel. The leaders' joint opposition was initially generated by the Rev. Leo Giovinetti, an evangelical pastor from San Diego who is both a veteran of the American culture war over homosexuality and a frequent visitor to Israel, where he has formed relationships with rabbis and politicians.
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GASP! CHURCHES JOINED AGAINST THIS SICK DISPLAY OF PERVERSSION!
Dirty? Abdel, baby . . . they'll make it "fabulous"! LOL
Taking pride in their sin.....
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
I shudder to think what one has to do to attain that position.
A public display of lewdness and a 10-day orgy of perversion intended to insult and provoke people of faith has nichevo to do with "tolerance" and "diversity" but it is a way for the queer nazis to flaunt their own intolerance and bigotry of religious believers.
Thanks for the ping!
I just don't see the Islamic clerics taking this lightly.
"The devil, that old serpent, roameth about like a lion, seeking whom he may devour, knowing he hath but a short time!" I think I've got that quote from the book of Revelation, correct.
Good to see ya ol FRiend!!!
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