Israel’s Interior Minister Opposes Tel Aviv Gay Pride

Israel’s interior minister and chief rabbis called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to call off Tel Aviv’s annual gay parade to keep the “abomination” away from children’s eyes. Israel’s gay and lesbian community plans to hold its annual Gay Pride parade throughout the coastal city of Tel Aviv this Friday followed by a public wedding of gay couples in a park. “You are asked to order the cancellation of the gay parade in Tel Aviv,” an attorney representing Interior Minister Eli Yishai of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and the country’s chief rabbis wrote in a letter “We urge you to restrict the event to a closed area to which entry will be limited to people above the age of 18,” said the letter, addressed to Netanyahu, Tel Aviv’s mayor and Israel’s police chief.

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  2. SteveMD2 June 12th, 2009 1:30 am

    My Wife leaves for a once in a lifetime trip to Israel next week. I (yes I’m nominally Jewish) refused to go because I know there are some real A..holes there. People who seem to forget that when their relatives went up in ashes, those victimes shared the ovens with the gays of Germany , another despised group.

    And that gave me another $4000 that instead of going to Israeli businesses, has already gone to gay equality groups in the USA.

    As for the Israeli Ultra orthodox, of which a couple of their Knesset members said last year that “gays were like bird flu” – well it shows the absolute idiocracy and hipocrisy of conservative religionsl.

  3. Kason21TX August 2nd, 2009 11:35 pm

    And now we have the killing of 3 gay youngsters and 14 wounded. Mass murder in the name of God.

    I’ll be glad to help carry off these Hareidim in chains, and drop a whole group of them at the Door of Hamas, in exchange for the 1 Israeli soldier they hold.

    And give me another group, and maybe we can make a similar deal with the taliban for the return of the American soldier they hold.

    And give the Taliban a good videocam, and a large hand saw in the package. For once, they could do the world a favor with these creeps.

    People who forgot that the gays shared their ancestors fate when they entered the gates which said in German “Work makes free”. But exited through hitler’s smokestacks.

    Now, since I am not a youngster by any means, I am going to have a notarized letter directing that my funeral is to be totally non-religious. A symbol for the future, and my 3 kids, of whom 2 have nothing to do with religion, and the other, who prob wouldn’t except for his wife.

    And I will wish my wife in the letter happy hunting. For a new model. She’s kinda pissed at how I call Friday nights when she goes to temple once a mos “widown’s night”

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