Re: Tha Ayatollahs of Jerusalem

On Jan 31, 9:51 am, "Henry Goodman" <henry.good...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Eliyahu" <lro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Jan 31, 12:12 am, flav...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 30-Jan-2008, "levin...@xxxxxxxxx" <levin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You'd be right if the gays insisted on marching in Mea
Shearim... but
no, you want to control the entire city, which is not yours,
or the
rabbinate's to control.

Jay

Yaakov K. in Jerusalem

Then let them march in the Arab Quarter next gay parade.

Why? You own downtown Jerusalem? The gays and seculars own it as
much
as you do. No one is forcing you to watch.

The point is that they own the Arab quarter just as much,
as well as the other venues they've been offered yet are
insisting on marching the one place that will upset the
most people, because of the behavior that accompanies
the marches.

Their goal isn't to upset people, though. It's to gain acceptance
for
them as individual human beings, and that isn't going to happen in
the
Arab quarter for reasons having nothing to do with being gay. The
Arabs will reject them and find their presence offensive simply
because they're Jews. Ergo, marching there is totally pointless.

Don't the organisers of the march allow gay Arabs to take part?

Probably, I think gay parades tend to be rather ecumenical. I
believe they even
let heterosexuals march if they want to. Whether Arabs will march or
not is another question.

.

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