Jews and Muslims unite against homosexuals

[bemildred]

You have to know what is really important ...
Edit: Oh yeah :popcorn::popcorn:

Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this week.

Leaders from both faiths have united to denounce the parade, which has prompted nights of street protest by ultra-orthodox Jews, who regard homosexuality as an "abomination", and death threats against those taking part.

After Israeli police found and defused a bomb bearing the message "sodomites out", orders were given for 12,000 officers to deploy across Jerusalem during the march, which is planned for Friday. Last night, lawyers from both sides were wrangling at the High Court over whether the parade should be allowed to take place and, if so, where. With the court expected to convene another hearing today, it appeared that the parade would take place but at a new location near the parliament, a safe distance from orthodox neighbourhoods.

The issue of the parade is generating more media coverage than the Israeli military incursion into Gaza, which has left more than 50 Palestinians dead.

Telegraph.UK

[William769]

1. Now who says Homosexuals are not uniter's!

[IntiRaymi]

2. This is funny at so many levels....

Reaffirms my atheism, and my outlook on life.
Great line:
"The issue of the parade is generating more media coverage than the Israeli military incursion into Gaza, which has left more than 50 Palestinians dead."
Sound like republicans to you?

[PrgressiveJ]

3. ULTRA ORTHODOX JEWS

ULTRA Orthodox Jews, that is the keywords.

You will find within Israeli Society, the gays have infiltrated every level.
They are to be found in the highest echelons of power. That is within
the military IE:the IDF, as well as in civilian life.

If one were to walk the streets of Tel Aviv, it is possible to see Gay man walking hand-in-hand
openly without fear .

Now let us contrast this with what happens in the rest of the Middle East.
In most countries that border Israel, the sin of being homosexual
is equivalent to the death sentance.

Therefore the headline of this article is extremely misleading.

most Jews, and that includes most Jews in Israel and most Jews worldwide are extremely tolerant of, Homosexuality.

And that is opposed to most of Israel`s neighbors .(including Palestine)

The actual headline of this article should not read``Jews and Muslims unite against homosexuals``

it should read`` ultra Orthodox Jews(such as the anTi_Zionist Naturei Karta )and Muslims unite against homosexuals``

[PrgressiveJ]

4. Get the parade in marching order

The gay pride parade is no longer a Jerusalem issue or a gay issue, or even an issue solely related to freedom of expression. The opposition to the parade just because the participants are gay, and the argument that their very presence in the city will bring disaster upon the nation of Israel, seriously impinges upon the human rights of this population. The burning of garbage cans and publication of threatening posters is precisely the reason to hold the parade, not cancel it.

The religious public objects to the event in Jerusalem not because its style is provocative or unsuitable to the city, to which they attribute holiness, but because they reject homosexuality.

We cannot accept this position, of rejecting people because of who they are. Just as people would not consider relinquishing a parade of women or of people with disabilities or of Ethiopians just because someone sees their very presence in the city as offensive to his sensitivities - so, too, we cannot agree to the cancellation of the event.


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/784086.html


AND THAT IS HOW ISRAELI JEWS FEEL



:bounce:

[PrgressiveJ]

5. Israel is among the leaders in equality for sexual minorities

Queer in the Land of Sodom
Israel is among the leaders in equality for sexual minorities
FEBRUARY 21, 2002. Although the idea of a vibrant queer community in Israel, reputed birthplace of the biblical condemnation of same-sex relations, may seem far-fetched, Israel today is one of the world's most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities. Politically, legally, and culturally, the community has moved from life at the margins of Israeli society to visibility and growing acceptance.

In the Beginning
There is no magic mythical beginning to Israel's lgbt community, like the 1969 Stonewall riots that spurred American queers into action. Instead, changes in the values and politics of Israeli society over the past twenty years or so created the space in which a gay and lesbian community could coalesce.

The first gay organization was established in 1975, thanks largely to the work of immigrants from the United States and other English-speaking countries influenced by the development of gay liberation and the counterculture of the 1960's.

The very name of this first organization, the Society for the Protection of Personal Rights (then, as today, known as the Agudah, in Hebrew), reflected the difficulty of organizing sexual minorities at a time when the existence of a sodomy law was thought by many to make homosexuality itself illegal. In its early years, the Agudah functioned more as a support and social group rather than as a political organization.

http://www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/020220_gay_israel_history.html