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An ultra-Orthodox man in J'lem Sunday reading posters calling for a demonstration against the upcoming Gay Pride parade. (Tess Scheflan/BauBau)
Last update - 23:26 10/06/2007
Haredi court places curse on upcoming Jerusalem Gay Pride parade
By Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondent

The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court, Haredi Badatz, placed a "curse" Sunday on the participants in the upcoming Gay Pride parade scheduled to take place next week in Jerusalem.

The court also cursed the police officers who will be maintaining order during the parade.

Badatz rabbis plastered warning posters on Jerusalem city walls saying "All those involved in the matter, those of impure souls and those helping them and guarding them, they will feel in their souls a curse, a bad spirit will come over them and haunt them, they will never be cleansed of their sins, from the judgment of God, in their bodies, their souls and their finances."
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The ultra-Orthodox leaders plan to stage a "large demonstration which will shake the foundations for the sake of Jerusalem's holiness." The demonstration will likely take place next week, but the warning posters disseminated Sunday afternoon are perceived by the ultra-Orthodox community as a green light to begin protests even sooner.

The rabbis decided to try to bring about the cancellation of the parade through protest after their "diplomatic efforts" to negotiate the cancellation with the Jerusalem police failed.

The leader of the Haredi community, Rabbi Izhak Tuvia Weiss told the police that he was opposed to mass demonstrations, and asked senior police officials to rescind the authorization it had given to the gay and lesbian community to hold its Gay Pride parade in the streets of Jerusalem.

According to some Haredi officials, Rabbi Weiss was disappointed by the meeting he had last week at his home with the chief of the Jerusalem district police force, Major General Aharon Franco, who refused to cancel the parade.

In the wake of his diplomatic failure, Rabbi Weiss agreed to join the more militant members of the community in supporting the mass demonstration against the parade.
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  6.   GAYS MAY GET KILLED!!! 01:11  |  RIMON KAHANISTI 11/06/07
  7.   gay parade, have it elsewhere 01:53  |  Jack 11/06/07
  8.   Curse 01:58  |  David 11/06/07
  9.   jack 02:29  |  alan 11/06/07
  10.   Jack 02:30  |  David 11/06/07
  11.   No. 3 Jack, idiotic post 02:54  |  Mitch Cohen 11/06/07
  12.   Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel 03:12  |  AV 11/06/07
  13.   They only hate it because God said it to be an abomination 03:24  |  Selah 11/06/07
  14.   Jack 03:35  |  David 11/06/07
  15.   Selah 03:42  |  David 11/06/07
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  19.   Hummmmmm ooba dooba looo!!! 04:41  |  Bill 11/06/07
  20.   where is the selnt majority? ,,,,, 04:53  |  alan 11/06/07
  21.   mitch cohen NYC 05:03  |  Jack 11/06/07
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  40.   No! Allan #9, you are wrong! 23:19  |  Rebecca 11/06/07
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