Anti-Gay Rabbi Handling Carl Paladino’s Visits to Synagogues

[Shallah Kali]

http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/anti-gay-rabbi-handling-carl-paladinos-visits-to-synagogues/

Levin’s vicious monomania on homosexuality rivals that of Fred Phelps: in 1997 he urged http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5700/edition_id/106/format/html/displaystory.html a boycott of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, because the museum had dared to mention homosexual victims of the Nazis, and in 2005 (as the Times notes) he described a gay rights march in Jerusalem as the “spiritual rape” of the Holy Land. In 2006, his invective against gays in Jerusalem included an apparent threat of violence. As was reported: http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/intl/29120/Jerusalem_pot_activists_preach_for_peace

Much more ominously for Jerusalem, thousands of orthodox jews protested this week about the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Gay Pride to go ahead on November 11

…”I promise there’s going to be bloodshed, not just on that day, but for months afterwards,” New York rabbi, Yehuda Levin of the Rabbinical Alliance of America said in July at a joint meeting of Muslim, Jewish and Christian clerics, “In America, we are outraged and disgusted over this event.”

I blogged on this at the time http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/rabbi-tells-us-christians-not-to-%E2%80%9Cturn-the-other-cheek%E2%80%9D-over-jerusalem-gay-protest/ . So, Paladino doesn’t want “to hurt homosexual people in any way”, yet he’ll take advice on what to say on the subject from someone shows no interest in making such a distinction.

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