Monday, June 29, 2015

Gay marriage in Israel- orthodoxy still rules


   There is an active gay life community in Israel. But I find it interesting that very many religious Jews over there are as upset with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling as Catholic Bishops in America. They think that the very wording of the ruling on gay marriage does not reaffirm the " free exercise of religion ". It seems that gay marriage-even civil unions-are not around the corner in Israel ( unless the state goes secular ? )
Not everybody " on the left " in America is blind to growing hostility to organized religion. And indeed the New Atheists do not hide their scorn for individual religious people.Read the Christopher Hitchen's cult classic: " God is not great.... how religion poisons everything ". The book is also very Islamophobic.
" In Ayn Rand We Trust " ? I suspect most of the crowd celebrating gay marriage are libertarians-and non believers in a Supreme Being ( not SELF ) .

Israel rejects gay marriage 
  

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