Orthodox Jews appalled as first openly gay legislator to enter parliament

AP ^ | Oct. 2, 2002 | Jack Katznell

[Alouette]

Sick, deviant, abomination against G-D, works for me.

[xyggyx]

Yes, it might be sick and deviant, but if a homosexual gets elected they have a right to hold the office. That's how democracy works. The Orthodox Jews are just being bitter, and walking out when the guy speaks isn't going to help anything. It's up to the government to support what the people want. It's up to activists to argue that what people want is wrong.

[ohioman]

I suppose that you would have voted for the fag.

[hosepipe]

"The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress." - Benjamin Disraeli

[windcliff]

ping-a-ding

[xyggyx]

Hah! You must have some amazing logic skills to deduce that.

I would vote for whoever's platform came closest to what I believe. I don't know what that guy's platform was, but I'm guessing since he's gay, he wouldn't really have the same stance on certain issues as me.

[ZULU]

"It's up to the government to support what the people want."

That's the difference between a constitutional republic and a mobocracy. The government should support what the people want? What people? Think about what you are saying.

Homsexuality is a revolting, abberrant, deviant perversion which has assisted in the spread of epidemic diseases like AIDS in the western world.

Homosexuals should be free to practise whatver deviant behavior they may choose in private, but profession of, and endorsement of, their sick lifestyle should not be tolerated by any decent society. Here or in Israel.

[xyggyx]

Just so you know: Israel is a parliamentary democracy, and they don't have a constitution.

[goodieD]

If it's not all about what they do in bed, then why tell anyone they're gay? If this man was really concerned about Israel politics and the state of the nation, they he would keep his trap shut about his sexual practices. After all, it's irrelevent to the performance of his duties..correct?

[ohioman]

Well it's good to hear that. But these Orthodox Jews have every right to be openly hostile to someone stands for everything they are against. (Kind of like me and my attitude toward Clionto/Gore and many other neo-commies).

[xyggyx]

I think he was busted living with a guy, then kicked out of the military, so it was hard to keep it a secret. Also, he's been fighting for gay rights for years.

I wouldn't vote for someone who's main agenda is gay rights... there are so many things wrong with the world, what gay people and their partners are doing isn't even on my radar.

[onedoug]

Now, now.... We must be tolerant of all islamists, sodomites, homosexuals, pedophiles and communists along the road to perdition.

[Alouette]

I don't know what that guy's platform was

The article says he belongs to the MERETZ party, which Israel's ultra-appeasement "surrender-to-the-terrorists-for-peace" gang of Bill and Hillary groupies. Andrew Sullivan, this guy is not.

[FourtySeven]

Sooooo.....

...does this mean that Israel is not the Nation of Israel as described in the Bible?

I must admit I don't know why people like Jerry Falwell support Israel so much, when clearly given incidences like this, there is no religious justification for such support.

Or maybe Falwell likes gays now?

[Lady Heron]

there is no religious justification for such support.

Though I have no respect for Falwell. There is a religious justification for supporting Israel, if you are a Christian it is in the Bible, just read it. This support does not include all of the sins of every single person that is Jewish, just a support of the Jews in general and Israel.

[goodieD]

If this guy's main agenda is protecting Israel, then I say let him do it. Normally I'd be the LAST person to say that..but right now, Israel has bigger fish to fry, like survival.

[Stone Mountain]

I think he was busted living with a guy, then kicked out of the military...

I thought gays were allowed in the Israeli military - or were those two separate events?

[anguish]

Apparently it was Even who, after being fired for being gay, testified before the parliament and got the rules changed.

[Stone Mountain]

Thanks - my mistake - I guess I skipped over that part in the article the first time through...