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Contents:
- WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT GAY WEDDG CEREMONI?
- NEW CEREMONI FOR GAY UNNS
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT GAY WEDDG CEREMONI?
As a straight post-nomatnal rabbi who has advoted for women’s rights and gay rights Jewish rual practice, and who has done much work the area of Jewish marriage and divorce, I thk that straight upl have much to learn om gay upl when to signg their weddg ceremony. The “Br Habat” ExampleLike morn heterosexual Jewish upl, gay Jewish upl are tryg to strike the balance between tradn and morny. Gay upl, therefore, are sentially startg om scratch to create a ceremony that reflects their own valu yet also looks and feels like a Jewish is how I felt when I created my olst dghter Michal’s “br habat” ceremony welg her to the venantal muny of the Jewish People.
As straight upl attend their gay iends’ weddg ceremoni and see all of the thought that went to creatg their ceremoni, I would hope that they would not want to settle for ls. My personal visn for Jewish marriage is that straight upl will learn om their gay brothers and sisters that the weddg ceremony n be Jewish yet still reflect the uple’s egalarian valu and visn for their marriage.
NEW CEREMONI FOR GAY UNNS
What may have started om the handip the gay Jewish world of havg no tradnal precent to rely on has proven to be an impet for much need creativy and change the area of Jewish weddgs. 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.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
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. 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.
Gay and lbian upl should have the legal right, as heterosexual upl do, to form such lastg partnerships. ”The issue of gay and lbian Jewish weddgs, however, has been more ntroversial the Reform movement. 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.