Reply #36: But he is not the only one that is observant, and that is the point! [View All]

[IndianaGreen]

The rightwing argument is that the only religious people are those that conform to the most "strict" views, which coincidentally happens to be the ones that are the most politically conservative.

Most Jews are as observant as Lieberman, and I count myself among the observant crowd, and I certainly include all of the other Jewish congregations in Indianapolis. It is a distortion to say that only the Orthodox are observant, and no one else is. It is a smear to say that those of us that oppose Lieberman are motivated by latent anti-Semitism, or that we oppose him because he is Orthodox.

I'll bet those that level those smears are not even aware that the Orthodox are not monolithic and that in Israel you have at least a dozen distinct Orthodox movements ranging from the one that allows women full participation in the synagogue, to those that oppose the existance of Israel because only the Messiah can reestablish Israel.