Doesn't that look like such a great picture? Leaders of different faiths all sitting at the same place. Could they be there for peace? To end the bloodshed that has wasted countless lives and ruined dreams in hope of a peaceful future? Well not exactly.
Instead, they are there for a little old fashioned gay bashing. Sure, we hate Jews, but we hate queers more. Its religious unity at its best. More on the flip:
From the
N.Y.
Times: (free subscription required)
Clerics of 3 Faiths Protest Gay Festival Planned for Jerusalem
International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions.
Now major leaders of the three faiths - Christianity, Judaism and Islam - are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the erroneous impression that homosexuality is acceptable.
"They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," Shlomo Amar, Israel's Sephardic chief rabbi, said yesterday at a news conference in Jerusalem attended by Israel's two chief rabbis, the patriarchs of the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches, and three senior Muslim prayer leaders. "It hurts all of the religions. We are all against it."
Abdel Aziz Bukhari, a Sufi sheik, added: "We can't permit anybody to come and make the Holy City dirty. This is very ugly and very nasty to have these people come to Jerusalem."
A deep and terrible sorrow? Its one thing when a suicide bomber blows him self up in a mall. Its another thing entirely when *GASP* two gay man hold hands while buying ice cream. Don't you see? The Big Homosexual Agenda is an international organization bent on destroying civilization its self.
I think this man nails it best:
"That is something new I've never witnessed before, such an attempt to globalize bigotry," said Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of Jerusalem Open House, a gay and lesbian group that is the host for the festival. "It's quite sad and ironic that these religious figures are coming together around such a negative message."
It really does show how far we have to go when we can bring together three faiths that have massacred each other for centuries around the flag of bigotry. Goes to show that if its one thing ALL religions have in common, its unsheathing hatred of SOMETHING. IT never matters what the actual prophet said. Jesus could have said "Thou shalt not pass the Bankruptcy Bill in the year 2005", and people would still argue "Well, technically, wouldn't it be 2004 from his point of view?". And the world contiues.