Posted on 07/06/2015 6:53:01 PM PDT by markomalley
During Pride festivities in the United States last weekend, tears flowed as freely as the celebratory libations, and pure joy mixed with utter disbelief following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage across the country – an accomplishment that seemed preposterous only a few years ago. The victory, of course, derives from decades of struggle and strategy, pain and persistence.
“As a marriage equality activist since the 1980s, I prayed and worked to see this day,” said Rabbi Denise Eger, the founding rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood, California, and the newly appointed, first openly gay president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical arm of Reform Judaism.
“I remember officiating at Jewish weddings for lesbian and gay couples long before there was civil recognition, and praying under the chuppah that one day society and our civil authorities would recognize our marriages,” she adds
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Orthodox Jewish institutions may be among of those that feel threatened by the ruling; indeed, that community has been slow to acknowledge the existence and needs of its LGBT population.
“In most Orthodox communities, this work has barely begun,” says Ladin, but she also mentions organizations like Eshel and Jewish Queer Youth which “are fostering what will ultimately be huge changes in Orthodox communities’ recognition of and response to LGBT Jews.”
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And though halakha (traditional religious law) seems immovable at times, Amichai Lau-Lavie, spiritual leader of Lab/Shul in New York and a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, has faith in its evolution.
“I suspect that 20 years from now, halakhic norms will shift in most Jewish contexts including the more pious and observant to welcome the LGBTQ family and friends,” he says.
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“I suspect that 20 years from now, halakhic norms will shift in most Jewish contexts including the more pious and observant to welcome the LGBTQ family and friends,” he says.
So they will change the Torah? Really?
You'd think of all people on the face of the planet, Jewish people would have the best grasp on what God thinks about sodomy and what ends up happening when that law is breached...
We already have a gay Muslim president.
Bernie Sanders is Gay?
Barney Frank? Don’t call it a comeback!
Why Does Torah Law Allow Polygamy?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3307619/posts
I think Rhom Emanuel is who they are thinking about.
Unbelievable! Not just a woman “rabbi,” but some deluded jackass who thinks that Orthodox Jews will welcome people who openly practice what. G-d calls an abomination?
Jews didn’t give up their faith with the swords of ancient great powers literally at our throats, we didn’t yield to the Inquisition and we didn’t cave to the f’ing Nazis...but we’ll give in lock, stock and barrel to the great “god” of PC? Good luck with that fantasy.
Re “Bernie Sanders is Gay”? If he isn’t, he’ll say he is by the end of his presidential campaign.
His new campaign slogan would be “Gay and Red, Crazy in the Head”. Vote for Bernie because Obama can’t run again.
And forget about anything "Rabbi" Denise says. She carries absolutely NO authority pertaining to Jewish matters. According to Jewish law, women cannot be rabbis. A giraffe could call itself "Rabbi", but that doesn't make it so.
I read it’s projected Orthodox Jews will be half of Israel’s population by 2050. I know Chassids don’t talk against homosexual mirage, but they definitely don’t accept it.
Whether you take "Torah" to mean the first five books or the more general if less precise 24 books of the Tanakh, it has been a long time since the Torah has been amended. The process for amendment is simple: G-d sends a prophet whose writings are accepted by the Jews as divinely inspired. Whether by sending the next Moses, the Messiah, or the next Malachi, G-d is the only one who can create a valid change to the Torah.
Similarly, the process for lawfully changing the Constitution of the United States is perfectly clear. Whether in a group as with the first ten Amendments, or individually as with the next seventeen real Amendments, changes can only be made through the process specified in the Constitution. Other claims created by any other means have no moral validity (even if they act as legal precedents because a judicial activist issued the change in an unsupported opinion).
She sounds like a radical feminist.
Did she pray to Satan to bring about this cultural shift?
I don't see that God would answer this prayer request of hers.
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