Vatican urges Israel to ban Jerusalem gay parade

[FernBell]

The Vatican has condemned a gay pride parade due to be held in Jerusalem on Friday as offensive to religious believers and urged Israeli authorities to stop it taking place.

"It is with bitterness that we have learned that the day after tomorrow, Nov. 10, 2006, there is scheduled in Jerusalem a so-called 'gay pride parade'," the Vatican said in a statement issued today.

In a letter to Israel's Foreign Ministry, the Vatican urged authorities to withdraw permission for the parade which is expected to attract up to 8,000 people.

"The Holy See has reiterated on many occasions that the right to freedom of expression, sanctioned by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is subject to just limits, in particular when the exercise of this right would offend the religious sentiments of believers," the letter said.

"It is clear that the gay parade scheduled to take place in Jerusalem will prove offensive to the great majority of Jews, Muslims and Christians, given the sacred character of the City of Jerusalem."


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[kenny blankenship]

1. Know what would go great with Democratic victory in the House & Senate?

a NEW new Pope. Ratfinger is an old Rhine vintage that went bad long ago and just needs to be thrown out.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Oh, That'll Work

God's Rottweiller tells Israel what to do. Next he'll be whippin' out old books where "someone else" says that Jews drink the blood of babies.

[DeadManInc]

3. When the pope can get rid of all the pedophile priests,

Maybe then he should worry about what others are doing! Israel should just tell him to fuck off.

[Tyo]

4. Either Ratso's flock now includes Israeli Jews

Or the Holy Father is meddling in politics. Again.

If churches insist on having a political voice, fine. But they need to start paying taxes in return for the privilege.

[Vorta]

5. I always get crap for this

I see the US operatives of the Vatican as felons. It is against the law for a US citizen to be an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Yet these men, who openly swear obedience to the pope (a head of state of a foreign country) are never taken to task for their attempts to coerce voting, even going so far as to threaten elected officials with disfellowship from their community if they vote against the wishes of the Vatican.

[damntexdem]

6. One religious "state" urges another one to further smash human rights.

So what else is new?

[donco6]

7. My EXISTENCE offends the "religious sentiments" of

believers.

Too f-ing bad for them.

[spancks]

8. Fuck that fucking pedophile protecting old Nazi,

and his fascist, blood-soaked church. I wish the earth would open up and swallow Vatican City and all of the Vatican's greedy, hypocritical, power-rabid "God" mongers with it.

Gay Power!

[NMMNG]

9. Yes, because bigots of all shades must band together

to squelch the rights of others. :eyes:

[and-justice-for-all]

10. I urge Italians to close Vatican City!!

[Duncan Grant]

11. When I get a religion-free zone, you get a gay-free zone. Deal?

How's this for contempt?

"It is with bitterness that we have learned that the day after tomorrow, Nov. 10, 2006, there is scheduled in Jerusalem a so-called 'gay pride parade'," the Vatican said in a statement issued today.

And the Vatican has the nerve to claim that we're offensive?

[sui generis]

12. I wish we could ban the vatican

who the hell do they think they are? The holy roman empire? Which was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire?

The Hanseatic league would be doing tsukaharas in their graves.

[mitchtv]

13. That old fuck is incessant in his persecution

suspicious like the good Rev Haggard

[swimmernsecretsea]

14. As Sinéad O'Connor said...

Fight the real enemy.

[readmoreoften]

15. Oh great! Thanks gays. Now we'll lose the 2008 elections because of your little "march."

Can't you tell the gays in other countries to stop marching!? How are we ever going to take America back when you keep running your mouths. We'll get to you once we get our power back. Then we will bestow upon you, magnanomously, your piddlings little rights. But come on, there's less then two years left before the presidential election. Focus people!

[Democrats_win]

16. Breaking: Parade cancelled in favor or Rally instead. Hitler appeased again!

http://365gay.com/Newscon06/11/110906jerusalem.htm

Jerusalem's LGBT community, ultra-Orthodox leaders and police have agreed to cancel Friday's planned gay pride parade in the city, but a pride rally at a stadium will go ahead Israeli radio reported on Thursday.

Under the agreement Haredi protestors who have been staging nightly riots in Jerusalem will not hold a demonstration Friday to condemn gays.

The pact was worked out at a meeting with police amid growing concerns that a violent clash between the two sides could not be contained.

[Occulus]

17. Kgfnally urges Fuck Itself to visit Vatican. n/t