Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem - PhillyBlog

WashWestDad · #1 (**permalink**) 03-31-2005, 12:17 PM

Nothing brings feuding religious leaders together like a little homophobia.

NY Times: Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem

Quote:

International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions.

Now major leaders of the three faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the erroneous impression that homosexuality is acceptable.

"They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel's two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. "It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it."

Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem."

And here's a portrait of the Interfaith Intolerance League:

CW · #2 (**permalink**) 04-01-2005, 01:48 AM

I'd love to see them try this **** in Mecca.....That would be hilarious. :rolling_:

I belive in a live, let live approach to life. I coul care less what people do in the privacy of their own personal spaces.

This pride festival stinks of political agendas. First Rome, Now Jerusalem.

Muslims, Jews and Christians standing together for a common goal...wow

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