Jerusalem police approve Gay Pride event in city later in month

We desperately need God's help & protection from our enemies, no less today than ever before. If not for those who keep the Torah in Israel, with all the challenges, where would Israel be today? Historical example: Golda Meir & her cabinet were convinced they were gonna lose & were on the verge of taking their lives. The Haredi leaders trusted in God, encouraged more Torah, more prayer, repentence, & charity, & understood there was a great chance in their merit we would be saved.

What is with this meshugena world? When did it become fashionable for people to have wierd and unnatural sexual relationships, to the point where they can feel pride? Gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, transgenders, transexuals, transvestites, etc. All the things that sane people used to recognize as just ridiculous, or even evil, now are being defended. Those who don't buy this are being called "bigots", or "homophobic", or "old-fashioned". I guess call me all of those, if that's what it means. But this parade is a parade of nonsense, and the people who do it, along with the misguided people who defend it, are nonsensical. Please keep the parade out of a place like Jerusalem, where people practice the high moral standards demanded by their religions, even if the GLBT, etc. crowd likes to attack them. In truth they are attacking to defend that about which they are ashamed, their inability to function sexually normally, or their desire to be outrageous just to get attention

Will Olmert & Perez take part in parad? What is wrong with this? Finaly they can be proud in something.

To Avi- you ask when the haredim will learn to "but out"I ask when will you fools learn to stop provoking g-d and all the people who are interested in living like normal human beings. when will you and yours stop ramming your filth down other peoples throats under the guise of freedom. It is you who has the problem. Not the "bully Haredim" . The same way that the jews dont start fights with the arabs so to the haredim(generally) do not start fights with chilonim. They respond when they feel their values threatened. hoping that 1 day you will be honest enough to admint to the truth that i have written

Democracy is not the dictature of the majority. The right of the minorities is sacred so long as they don't infringe the law. Gays are not proselitists. They dont want to convert you, just defend their right to be as free as you are. I am not gay but there are also non jews who helped the jews during the war. Just learn to be tolerant, it is good for the soul.

I am against holding this fiasco en Jerusalem, yet I dont think you understand the concept of a "Gay Parade". I think its more of a march. Gays want to be treated as normal individuals, with the same equal rights as every other citizen. (I am Gay by the way). Gay Pride will continue untill the Gays obtain this goal. Once that happens, Gays wont have a reason to march. (Except for those sexual deviants that run around with sexual toys during Gay Pride, and there are many. They will always find something to march for, and its a shame) Now, holding this thing in Jerusalem is just provacative. The Sponsors of this event are playing with fire, and taking a risk to get burnt. Their own intolerance in accepting Jerusalem as a Holy City is getting the best of them.

Gays should have equal rights. If they did there would bw no need for a parade.

Let`s imagine for a moment, alternative parades: Heterosexual parade...Homeless parade...Letter distributors parade....Massage women parade ... Would the Jerusalem police approve all of them? If no, why not? If yes, let`s start bothering them immediately, until the exhausted Jerusalem police falls on his knees and accepts only one parade a year.So that the next gays parade will be accepted in ten years from now. Tragy-comic isn`t it?

This is not a democratic decision,not that Israel is democratic. But according to all of the poles, the majority of Jerusalamites don"t want it in there city. So why not listen to them ?

Why don't they make the parade in Ramallah?

Preparing the nation from a serious threat of annihilation by the fanatical Islamist-Jihadist state of Iran that is feverishly on their nukes, is more important than a parade as this. Israel should not be distracted by internal and external forces that are attempting to hamper her self-defense preparations against such serious external threats and aggressions. This is a matter of survival and national security for the Israel.

There are gay people living in Jerusalem, and they have the right to esxpress themselves just as much as the Haredi. Israel is supposed to be a democracy. Jerusalem is not just for the ultra-Orthodox.

The ultra-orthodox are trying their hand again at intimidating and threatening. It is the type of strategy that they learned from the far right. The police are taking them seriously.

It is possible to hate the sin and love the sinner, leaving judgment of them to God. Yes, you should love them. Personal judgement should be to the extent of what you want for yourself. This right we all have. Gays need to learn this too. And STOP perpetrating what they claim to be fighting against.

I just cannot see their point, other than: Here we are, in your face. Just begging to start something (but really, for what purpose?) It really makes no sense, they are NOT going to change the minds of the religious [Jews,Christian or Muslims] with regard to this city. It is so much more about the Holiness of the city than it is about the unholiness of the gay actions. Being tolerated in Tel-Aviv should tell them this much. Do what you do in your OWN backyard, not someone elses. Out of the closet is one thing, bringing the whole world to acceptance is another.

Whom would you lend money to first, one of these marchers or a orthordox rabbi?

I hope it wont be postponed for the same reasons as last year because of a war! G-d has his ways and lets hope that G-d gets us out of this sill demonstration by way of peaceful means (many of the rabbis have said that G-d allowed the Lebanon War to start because of this provocative demonstration)

Come on - you know as well as everyone no-one needs this demoonstration, go to Tel_aviv or anyewhere else where you are wanted and stzay there - why go up against 90% of the dwellers of the city and get them so angry?

I just dont get it, as a businessman from Jerusalem and an inhabitent of Jerusalem (but not strictly orthordox) why should people from OUTSIDE Jerusalem agitate and break the peace, you want to make a parade then its fine but dont do it to upset 70% of the cities inhabitents and litmitless tourists (most of them orthordox and rich jews whom will not come once they hear once going to happen)and why should visitors from outside get mixed up in these wild demonstrations just to make a point that they can join off their homo preferences, truely a disgrace!! Does Jerusalem and Israel not have enough problems that we need this one also?

Send the Gay march to Moscow I'll see how long they last before Putin lets out his hounds to get them. I wonder if the ""British Academia"" will even dare to prupose a boycott on Russia for not allowing gay marching in Moscow? I think not, because Putin will freeze them in the winter.

Last year my Haredi neighbours achieved two significant counter productive effects (from their point of view) with their violence and rioting. 1 They greatly increased the participation and support for the Pride Parade among people who would otherwise not have taken part, but are fed up with the haredi violent bulling tactics. 2 They significantly increased awareness of homosexuality among their own community as their kids started asking questions as to what all the rioting was about. Some would have been fobbed off the normal Haredi fairy stories (sic) about the evil hillonim, but I am certain that kids started asking themselves questions that their Rabbis do not have answers for.

U foolish godless people just dont get it.Last summer the cops were forced at the last minute to drastically reduce the forces that they could allocate to the abomination march on account of the war that just happened to occur that week.Jerusalem is the center of God's presence (Shechina) in this world. God placed man on this world to build it and to be fruitful and multiply.Unlike Christianity, asceticism is the antithesis of Judaism.Within limits a Jew is supposed to enjoy life including having sex with his spouse for the constructive purpose of procreation.Homosexuality is the negation of the purpose that God created man.In most, but not all cases, it can be cured.Having a march in Jm to praise this disease is to spit in the face of God, and in the faces of the vast majority of the residents of the Holy City who believe in Him.Once again the police and their godless masters have chosen the week that the country will have their attention diverted to more important matters.Bombs away!

G-D has his ways, it'll be the third time trying to march, and again it'll fail.

WHen will there a march for patrilineals whose civil rights are violated much more than gays'? www.jewishjustice.com

something Israel has experience in................

provocative and unnecessary.... if gay people want to march no problem....but why do they have to choose to be provactive....just do it in Tel Aviv or Netanya or Eilat. democracy doesnt mean provocation and spitting in someone's face, it doesnt mean abrogation of responsibility to behave intelligently.

If Tel Aviv is happy about their Gay Pride Parade, then let them host the parade. Clearly Jerusalem is of a different opinion and it is provocative to force such a parade on the city.

great news once again. guess the Haredi will flip their wigs !