Jewish Leaders: Same-sex Marriage Ban Represents Hatred, Injustice and Persecution

Madison.com ^ | March 22, 2006 | Misc. WI Jewish "Leaders"

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Really?

[SIDENET]

This from Madison?

I'm SHOCKED.

[goldstategop]

They're NOT Orthodox Jews. Judaism does not condone homosexuality nor does it approve of same sex unions. So I know these "Jewish" leaders' opposition to the same sex marriage ban has as much to do with their commitment to Jewish values as with their stand on every other issue. They are liberals masquerading as Jews.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Der_Hirnfänger]

Forget our religion...politics are much more important!

[Rytwyng]

The amendment JEWISH SCRIPTURE denies equal rights to a historically persecuted hysterically perverted group and relegates them to second-class status.

[Max in Utah]

They're NOT Orthodox Jews.

Hell, they're barely Jews at all.

If Moses were around today, what do you suppose he would say to these rabbis?

[pogo101]

It's fine to write in protesting the legislature's actions on gay marriage, but ... my problem with their doing so while announcing that their protest is being don AS JEWS.

I'm not Jewish but I thought even most Reform (liberal) congregations grudgingly accepted that Jewish law strictly forbids the ol' lying-with-man-as-with-woman stuff. Recently I attended a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at a Reform temple and the annotated Leviticus they had there in the pews didn't try to dodge this fact (although the annotator plainly wished that God hadn't said that).

[MeanWestTexan]

If they're Jews, they skipped that part about Soddom.

And whole chapters of Leviticus.

[Albion Wilde]

This is a canard. If Jewish leaders want to object on the grounds of religious freedom to those things that a majority of Americans want their legislatures to pass on the basis that those things also happen to align with Christianity, soon they will be outlawing penalties for stealing and murder, which arose within their own religion, and also are embraced by Christians.

[YOUGOTIT]

Evidently you in Madison do not read or know the supreme law, but then who am I to say what new laws may have been passed down.

[tomahawk]

This is not true Judaism.

This is the religion of Liberalism pretending to be Judaism.

Very little connnection between the two.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Whatever else this amendment may be about, it is also about which religion or religious view shall be the law of our state. That is precisely what the Founders sought to avoid and what we in this state have avoided for 157 years."

Since the law has for 157 years prohibited same-sex marriage, how can re-affirmation of that principle be considered a change from prior practice? And aren't they demanding that the law be changed to conform to THEIR religious views? Both logic and facts are in short supply in this article.

[YOUGOTIT]

And another thing was it not the tribe of Benjamin who were wiped from the face of the earth, by the other tribes of Israel, by orders which included killing all men, women, and children and was this not done because of their perverted ways? Something is not as it seems with this letter from some religious whatever.

[Right Wing Assault]

What do they call it when muslims say the same things, I wonder? That is the true test.

[Giant Conservative]

They contend that Judaism is in accordance with their stance on gay marriage. Many other Jewish groups, like the ADL, contend likewise. Why not accept their position about their own religion?

[Giant Conservative]

Why do you say there is very little connection between the two? Aren't voting patterns and polls both in contradiction with that statement?

[MeanWestTexan]

No, I believe Mordichi and Ester, in fact, were of the tribe of Benjamin.

That's toward the end of the Babylonian captivity.

[MeanWestTexan]

You are part right, though.

Thr tribe of Benjamin was nearly wiped out by the other tribes (Judges, chapters 19, 20. & 21). However, they survived, and the first king of Israel, Saul, was a Benjamite from Gibeah. When the land was divided into two kingdoms after the death of Solomon, most of the Benjamites remained with the Judahites and formed the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

[PzLdr]

Do these guys read the Old Testament? I don't think their values are the values of the G-D of their ancestors, or the more Orthodox practitioners of their faith.

[CheyennePress]

Can I just say how much Reform Judaism frustrates me? I'm not even Jewish, but it drives me crazy talking to Jewish friends who buy into this stuff. Conservative Judaism? Fine. Orthodox? Great! Branches of Sephardic that border on Orthodox? Spectacular. But Reform just frustrates me. I look at it and say that this can't be Judaism, but who am I to say that it isn't? I can call it ascriptural to anti-scriptural if I want, but that doesn't seem to bother them.