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Who drove who away, and from what? Dr. Boteach is possibly the "Bo Diddly" of Rabbi's if he doesn't know why the Jewish religion has never accepted homosexuality.

The Catholics have no trouble understanding the historic Judaic law regarding the position of the homosexual - why can't he? Or is he merely one of many who claim to "interpret" Jewish law?

"Lawyering" with the specific commands of one's God is intellectual hubris of monumental proportions. One either accepts or rejects religious commandments.

Hmnnn, come to think of it, isn't "interpreting" basic cultural documents like the Old/New Testaments, and the Constitution, what got us into the myriad social debacles we have created for ourselves?

For non-Jews, it is should be clear that Judiasm didn't accept homosexuals from the prohibition against allowing a known male homosexual to be counted in the minimum number of congregants to make a minyan. That is the term for the minimum number for a formal worship to occur.