New Likud candidate calls LGBT community 'unnatural,' slams Gay Pride
Shlomo Karhi, who won 27th spot on the party's Knesset list, says annual festivities 'are inappropriate and against nature'; his aunt, who has two gay sons, says she will continue fighting to eradicate bullying against the LGBT community.
A Likud member who secured a realistic spot on the party's Knesset list this week condemned the gay pride parades held every year in Israel, saying such events promote an unnatural lifestyle.
Shlomo Karhi, who secured the 27th spot reserved for the Negev region, called the pride parades "inappropriate," and said they serve to "legitimize something that is contrary to the natural family unit."
Karhi, who is a married father of five, lives on the religious moshav of Zimrat, close to the Gaza Strip border. He has 17 siblings, who are all Likud members, and is a lecturer at Bar Ilan University, which "fuse(s) a reverence for Jewish legacy and heritage with the rigors of academic study."
"In my opinion holding Gay Pride parades is completely wrong," Karhi told the radio. "Everyone has the freedom to choose (how to live their life). But I don't think it's appropriate to publicly display this behavior."
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