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Shlomo:
This is SO SICK... And what are those homosexual perverts doing with a baby??
Conservatives face big votes on gay unions and ordination
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
New York Jewish Week
August 31, 2006
                  
NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (JTA) — In what will be a watershed moment for the Conservative movement — akin to admitting women into the rabbinate a generation ago — the ordination of openly gay and lesbian rabbis and the sanctioning of same-sex unions are likely to be approved by the denomination’s legal scholars, according to movement leaders.

But in a step unique to the Conservative movement, a contradictory religious opinion that would continue the prohibition against gay ordination and same-sex unions will also come up for a vote. Each view only has to receive a minimum of six votes from the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, which has 25 voting members, to be accepted....

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A Jewish man marries his partner in a civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall in 2004.

yephora:
Jeffguy wrote: This is SO SICK... And what are those homosexual perverts doing with a baby??

Starting him off early  :'(

Rhuan:
Leviticus chapter 17 verse 22 "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman, that is detestable."

Zionist Revolutionary:
"Conservatives" are not conservative.  They are just as left-wing as the DeFormed movement.

genteelgentile:
There is a lot I don't understand about Judaism, but come on!  To even consider gay marriage in any way, shape, or form??  Yikes!  There is a LOT of cleanup needed in the areas of spirituality in this country!

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