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Gays Blamed For Middle East Crisis
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
July 20, 2006 - 1:00 pm ET
(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".
Last month a Moslem leader, sheik Ibrahim Sarsur who is also a member of the Knesset, warned gays that "if they dare to approach the Temple Mount during the parade – they will do so over our dead bodies."
WorldPride was to have been held in Jerusalem last summer but postponed until 2006 due to the Israeli pullout from the Gaza.
The escalating conflict in the Middle East is being monitored by event organizers but they say they expect to hold the event as planned from August 6 - 12. (story)
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by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
July 20, 2006 - 1:00 pm ET
(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".
Last month a Moslem leader, sheik Ibrahim Sarsur who is also a member of the Knesset, warned gays that "if they dare to approach the Temple Mount during the parade – they will do so over our dead bodies."
WorldPride was to have been held in Jerusalem last summer but postponed until 2006 due to the Israeli pullout from the Gaza.
The escalating conflict in the Middle East is being monitored by event organizers but they say they expect to hold the event as planned from August 6 - 12. (story)
©365Gay.com 2006
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