Jerusalem gay parade called off due to war

[Roon]

J’lem gay parade called off due to war

Open House announces cancellation of parade, which was scheduled for August 10, but says other gay pride events will take place as planned. ‘We are determined to fight for our right to march in Jerusalem this year,’ organization’s director says
Ynet
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3279506,00.html

[gator_in_Ontario]

1. WOW

we are that powerfull? kinda gives the pink triangle a whole new meaning....

[CuteNFuzzy]

7. you know what the headline SHOULD be

"War called off due to gay parade"

I can dream.

[mzteris]

2. NOW we know the REAL REASON

they started this war.

Just to stop that parade!

[BayCityProgressive]

3. OMG

The comments to that article on the site are DISGUSTING. As a gay and Jewish man I am saddened to see that the parade was canceled but I am betting that when the conflict winds down they will have their parade. For those who don't know, Israel is the most progressive Middle Eastern nation in regards to gay rights. I think we also need to understand the make up of Israel. Many of it's citizenshave lived in the Middle East for generations or moved there from Eastern Europe. A lot of homophobia in both of those regions...

[Xeric]

4. Blaming Gays for the war...

(Jerusalem) The head of an extreme Orthodox group is blaming gays for the ongoing attacks on Israel by the Islamist terror group Hezbollah.

Specifically, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch blames WorldPride which is scheduled to take place in Jerusalem next month.

Sternbuch, who heads the Eda Haredit rabbinic court, is one of the leading opponents of the international gay pride event.

"We have not protested enough against this parade of abomination and therefore we have received this warning," Sternbuch, said in a hand-written message to his followers.

"Who knows where things will get to if we do not act further and more stringently against it."

An American Orthodox rabbi, also a harsh critic of WorldPride, agrees.

New York Rabbi Yehuda Levin, of the Orthodox Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the US and Canada, said that there is a "spiritual cause and effect," between the planned parade and the current violence.

Both Levin and Sternbuch have called for massive non-violent protests against the week-long international gay festival.

Other Orthodox rabbis and right-of-center members of the Knesset have joined the call for demonstrations.

In an open letter to religious Jews a number of rabbis from Israel and abroad are calling for a million people to take to the streets on the day of the WorldPride march to protest.

The letter is titled "Conflagration in Jerusalem – All in battle to honor the holly divine spirit".

The rest is at: http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/07/072006israel.htm

[Poll_Blind]

5. I heard Rabbi Levin flew in just to protest with them. Deplorable. n/t

PB

[BayCityProgressive]

6. that is sick

Don't they have more important issues to deal with?

[Poll_Blind]

11. For the Ultra-Orthodox, no. Reform Judaism is an entirely...

...different story. They're accepting of Gays, etc. (all minority groups)

PB

[originalpckelly]

8. What does Israel have against Lesbians...

and why do they keep bombing their country? :shrug:

[cigsandcoffee]

9. I'm trying to picture a gay pride parade happening under Hamas or Hezbolla

...but I just can't.

Perhaps that's yet another reason the majority of our support goes to Israel. Not because of parades, per se, but because gays can express themselves in Israel without being beheaded.

[BayCityProgressive]

10. Agreed.

[cigsandcoffee]

12. What's interesting is how Hamas and Hezbolla apologists....

...never want to focus on stuff like that. It's all hush-hush.