Rabbi Shmuley: Gay Marriage and the End of Days | Observer

Contents:

• GAY RABBIS GETTG MARRIED — AND MARRYG
• GAY MARRIAGE STIRS REBELLN AT SYNAGOGUE
• 5 REASONS BEG AN ORTHODOX RABBI COMPELLED ME TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE AND THE END OF DAYS
• GAY AND ONCE DIVORCED, A CANADIAN RABBI BROANS JUDAISM’S TENT
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

GAY RABBIS GETTG MARRIED — AND MARRYG

Yohay Verman and Yotam Ha’Cohen kiss as they celebrate their weddg durg the annual Jesalem Gay Pri Para on July 21, 2016 By GALI TIBBON/Getty Imag. “Paradoxilly, the more a gay person liv a life parallel to his/her straight peers, mted partnership and raisg children, the more acceptance appears to wane, ” the study reported.

“Our survey monstrated that half of the muni we enuntered, there is posive movement on a pragmatic level for gay upl and fai, ” said. “A full two thirds of the rabbis did not want to exclu the children of gay parents om lifecycle celebratns the shul. (JTA) — You uld ll bashert: 15 years after a landmark cisn Judaism’s Conservative movement that paved the way for gay and lbian stunts to enter s rabbil schools and for rabbis to perform same-sex weddgs, would seem like sty that two Conservative rabbis would wed.

GAY MARRIAGE STIRS REBELLN AT SYNAGOGUE

The Conservative movement adopted legal lgs signed to make gay and lbian Jews “feel accepted and weled” s synagogu and muni. Now, openly gay Conservative rabbis work a variety of settgs — and while many have married, cludg to others who work the Jewish world, none so far have paired off as Rosen and Walker did. First, should the Uned Stat ernment legalize same-sex marriage, offerg homosexual upl the same legal benefs that married heterosexual upl have?

Renstctnist JudaismThe Renstctnist movement exprsed s support for the full cln of gay men and lbians all aspects of Jewish life s 1992 Report of the Renstctnist Commissn on Homosexualy. The report affirmed the hols of homosexual relatnships and the need to affirm them a Jewish ntext: “As we celebrate the love between heterosexual upl, so too we celebrate the love between gay or lbian Jews.

” The Renstctnist movement today also fully endors efforts to legalize civil same-sex marriag and grant homosexual upl equal benefs. Renstctnist Rabbi Rebec Alpert, thor of Like Bread on the Ser Plate: Jewish Lbians and the Transformatn of Tradn and -thor of Explorg Judaism: A Renstctnist Approach, has argued that the Jewish prciple of enomic jtice mands support for civil gay and lbian marriage, bee the absence of legal benefs for same-genr upl n e them signifint fancial harm.

5 REASONS BEG AN ORTHODOX RABBI COMPELLED ME TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

The Central Conference of Amerin Rabbis (CCAR), the profsnal associatn of Reform rabbis, passed a rolutn 1996 opposg “ernmental efforts to ban gay and lbian marriage. ” The Unn of Amerin Hebrew Congregatns, the ngregatnal arm of the Reform movement, followed su 1997, rolvg to, “support secular efforts to promote legislatn which would provi civil marriage equal opportuny for gay men and lbians.

In 1997, the CCAR Commtee on Rponsa voted by a majory of 7 to 2 that homosexual relatnships do not f wh the Jewish legal tegory of kiddh. It also lled for the velopment of sample ceremoni to be ed as a rource for those rabbis who plan to perform same-sex Jewish Conservative MovementUntil very recently same-sex marriage and other gay and lbian issu met wh ltle nsens the Conservative movement. Then, June 2012 the Commtee of Jewish Law and Standards, voted 13-0 wh one abstentn to formally approve gay marriage ceremoni.

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE END OF DAYS

The mtee veloped two kds of ceremoni that n be ed as a gui for a rabbi marryg a same-sex uple, neher of which nta kiddh, and also issued a gui to homosexual divorce. On Tuday, June 17, and the le at the Wt Hollywood Park snak around self, as some 400 people wa to obta marriage licens on this first official day that the State of California is issug licens to gay and lbian upl (asi om one weddg on Monday). It is a momento day for gay and lbian upl — but doubly meangful for rabbis same-sex relatnships: Not only n they marry, but they n perform legal marriag for other same-sex upl, too.

GAY AND ONCE DIVORCED, A CANADIAN RABBI BROANS JUDAISM’S TENT

AdvertisementSKIP Berl for The New York TimJuly 5, 2013LOS ANGELES — Sai Temple is a Conservative Jewish ngregatn perched on a hill Wtwood, famo for s wealth, s sizable populatn of Persians, many of whom fled Iran after the fall of the shah, and a well-known and outspoken rabbi who has at tim phed his ngregatn on iologilly adventuro was that three weeks before the Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriage California, the rabbi, David Wolpe, announced a letter to the synagogue that gay marriag would be performed this 107-year-old ngregatn, as soon as the urt lg he anticipated was hand down. But the cisn this distctive synagogue has set off a storm of protts recent days, particularly om Persian Jews, reflectg not only the unual makp of the ngregatn but also the generatnal and cultural divisns among some Jews over how to rpond to changg civil views of homosexualy. “Homosexualy is explicly nmned Scripture and has been tegorilly and passnately rejected by all classil Jewish legal and ethil thkers as a rdal vice the same tegory as ct, murr and idolatry.

Still, the argument wh the ngregatn offered a strikg ntrast to the imag of gay upl across this state shg to be married, reflected sg fac newspapers and on eveng Naim said he was leavg the ngregatn. Conservative Judaism is perched between the more liberal Reform and Renstctnist movements, which have long accepted gay clergy members, and the Orthodox, which rejects Conservative ngregatns have gay rabbis and ntors. “First-generatn Persian Jews, immigrants who were raised the Moslem culture of Iran, have very strong prejudic agast gays and lbians, along wh other strong feelgs about matters such as women’s rol fai and society, fai’ ntrol over the liv of kids, rol of hbands and wiv, etc.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Moments later, the rabbi was challenged by a young Persian man askg why the synagogue should not simply refer to gay marriage as “a sodomy ntract. “As we have mornized the role of women and many other practic, the mand on the part of our brothers and sisters who are gay to be able to live a sanctified relatnship is a ll to our nscience and our rponsibily as Jews. He is Parviz Nazarian, not Pouran we handle rrectnsA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Marriage Stirs Rebelln At Synagogue.

I am an Orthodox rabbi and an advote for gay history of the theologil issue is plited, but the moral issue is creasgly clear.

I only officiate at marriag between Jewish men and women acrdg to the amework of the tradn, but I will argue (and advote) adamantly for the polil rights of gay people to marry. By focg on gay marriage a cultural ntext which the natn as a whole simply do not and will not accept the premise that marriage needs to be fed by G-d and the Bible, tradnalists are losg credibily and g people to ignore relig lears when we discs hols sexualy. This te and betiful ncept has e to be perceived as d language for anti-gay sentiment as all meang of sexual ethics has llapsed to anti-gay-marriage polic.