Jewish College Students Across America Back Pro-Gay Ruling

[Ian David]

Conservative Jewish college students across the country were applauding the movement's increased inclusion of gays and lesbians last week, even as they acknowledged it would do little to change their already accepting campus communities.

"I don't think it'll affect Jewish life on campus," Nathan Weiner, executive director of the National Union of Jewish LGBTQ Students -- a group for gay, bisexual and transgender Jewish college students -- told CampusJ.

"I think Jewish campus life and most of the Conservative movement progressed a long time ago. It was just a matter of whether the leadership would catch up."

Weiner said Conservative groups on campus already include gays and lesbians. He said the greater inclusion will have more of an impact in USY, the movement's youth group, which had restricted employment in its regional and national groups -- largely staffed by college students -- to heterosexuals.

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