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Title: Jewish Leader Blasts 'Religious Right'
Source: The Tampa Tribune/AP
URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... RVATIVES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
Published: Nov 19, 2005
Author: KRISTEN HAYS
Post Date: 2005-11-19 22:10:42 by Dakmar
Keywords: Religious, Jewish, Leader
Views: 229
Comments: 18

HOUSTON (AP) -- The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism blasted conservative religious activists in a speech Saturday, calling them "zealots" who claim a "monopoly on God" while promoting anti-gay policies akin to Adolf Hitler's.

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, said "religious right" leaders believe "unless you attend my church, accept my God and study my sacred text you cannot be a moral person."

"What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a monopoly on God?" he said during the movement's national assembly in Houston, which runs through Sunday.

The audience of 5,000 responded to the speech with enthusiastic applause.

Yoffie did not mention evangelical Christians directly, using the term "religious right" instead. In a separate interview, he said the phrase encompassed conservative activists of all faiths, including within the Jewish community.

He used particularly strong language to condemn conservative attitudes toward homosexuals. He said he understood that traditionalists have concluded gay marriage violates Scripture, but he said that did not justify denying legal protections to same-sex partners and their children.

"We cannot forget that when Hitler came to power in 1933, one of the first things that he did was ban gay organizations," Yoffie said. "Yes, we can disagree about gay marriage. But there is no excuse for hateful rhetoric that fuels the hellfires of anti-gay bigotry."

The Union for Reform Judaism represents about 900 synagogues in North America with an estimated membership of 1.5 million people. Of the three major streams of U.S. Judaism - Orthodox and Conservative are the others - it is the only one that sanctions gay ordination and supports civil marriage for same-gender couples.

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Yoffie said liberals and conservatives share some concerns, such as the potential damage to children from violent or highly sexual TV shows and other popular media. But he said, overall, conservatives too narrowly define family values, making a "frozen embryo in a fertility clinic" more important than a child, and ignoring poverty and other social ills.

One attendee, Judy Weinman of Troy, N.Y., said she thought Yoffie was "right on target."

"He reminded us of where we have things in common and where we're different," she said.

Yoffie also urged lawmakers to model themselves on presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, who famously told a Houston clergy group in 1960 that a president should not make policy based on his religion.

On other topics, Yoffie asked Reform synagogues to do more to hold onto members, who often leave after their children go to college. He also said the Reform movement, which is among the most accepting of non-Jewish spouses, should make a greater effort to invite spouses to convert.

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AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll contributed to this report.

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#9. To: Dakmar (#0)

Since Judaism is extreme group narccism, and male homosexuals in particular are extreme individual narccisists, it would seem that Judaism has found a natural ally in it's war of words against bible thumpers. The adoption by gentiles of old testament morality is baffling, yet many jews promote this scammery as a way to popularize militant Zionism. Jews want judeo-christian gentiles to support Zionism, based on biblical propaganda, but they don't want them to also support any of the other stupid/evil moral trappings in the bible. Bolshevik and Zionist Jews thought they had this problem licked when they invented the Political Correctness religion, but modern adherents of PC aren't sufficiently enthused by PC morality enough to support the most extreme offenses of militant Zionism. Such a quandry for Judaics....oh what a web they weave in their practice to deceive.

Googolplex  posted on  2005-11-20   16:44:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Googolplex (#9)

I would remind you that some of us who oppose the Iraq war are doing it based on "Thou shalt not murder" a supposidly "Judaic" Commandment. (I believe that the ten commandments come direct from god and apply to ALL PEOPLE, not just Jews.)

Coral Snake  posted on  2005-11-20   18:05:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Coral Snake (#10)

You call it a Judaic commandment, but also call it a commandment from God to all people. Which is correct...is it a judaic commandment or a universal commandment? I know what Jews consider it to be, a commandment between Jews exclusively. That's one of the reasons organized jewry consistently oppose the posting of the 10 commandments in any public venue, because the 10C's apply to jew-jew interaction only. What makes you think you know any better than the people that invented and follow the Judaic religion? By the way, judaics didn't invent anti-murder morality....surprise! It is typical narcccism on their part to believe they did. The Code of Hammurabi has been around alot longer than the ten commandments.

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