Anti-gay protesters: Sick perverts - get out of Jerusalem
Eighth Jerusalem Gay Pride parade marches amid growing tensions with rightist protesters.
By Liel Kyzer Tags: Israel news Jerusalem Israel gay pride gay center shootingAnti-gay protesters gathered Thursday next to several hundred gay activists preparing to march in the eighth annual Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, calling them to "get out of Jerusalem."
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Rightists protest Gay pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday. |
| Photo by: Tomer Appelbaum |
The protesters, led by extreme rightist activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir, hoisted banners reading "sick perverts - get out of Jerusalem."
"It is a disease of choice, and a man can change his taste and his ways," Marzel said, adding "when someone has AIDS they tell them not to infect others, so why are these people allowed to march here in Jerusalem and infect us with their disease?"
The parade, which for the first time is expected to march all the way to the Knesset building, marks a year since the deadly shooting at the Tel Aviv Gay youth center, in which two people were killed and 13 were wounded.
Meanwhile, rightists from the United Torah Judaism party organized a "donkeys' parade," expected to gather outside the Supreme Court, under the banner "the marchers who do what beasts do."
Openly gay MK Nitzan Horowitz (New Movement-Meretz) attacked Deputy Jerusalem Mayor Yitzhak Pindros for supporting the rightist protesters against the Gay Pride parade, saying his actions incited violence and hatred against the gay community.
"The words uttered by Pindros, who gets his salary from the state budget, calling the marchers names such as beasts and donkeys, are incitement which leads to heavy violence," Horowitz said in the Knesset ahead of the parade.
"I demand that these types of people show responsibility and understand why such incidents such as the shooting at the Tel Aviv gay youth center occur," he added.
Last week Tel Aviv marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting attack at the Youth center.
Next month a delegation of youth wounded in the shooting will join Tel Aviv municipality officials and possibly Israeli police officials in Berlin to meet with representatives of Maneo, a group that provides support for gay and bisexual men who have been victims of violence, members of the Berlin police, German members of parliament and officials in the Berlin municipality.
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just emagine etch realy eath sexual direction would hold parades, imagin there are some strang versions of "SEX?". religion should be privat ? and what about sex. just emagine a necrophil pride parade.
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I would have thought Israeli's would have already exhausted their hatred and not turn it against the Israeli Gays. Apparently I am wrong. Perhaps there is no limit to Israeli hatred and bigotry. By the way, it seems to me that those that are not hated in Israel, probably represent no more than 20-30% of the populous. Yet somehow, the anti's control the government.
When I vote, I vote for a party that supports the right of LGBT people to get married. I personally find it disgusting and abhorrent, and my religion considers it to be completely forbidden. However, I do *not* believe in forcing my religion or my personal views on others. As long as it doesn't hurt others, everyone should be free to do whatever they want. If some people are happy when they marry someone from the same sex, by all means, go ahead, I don't care. Israeli chareidim sometimes make me sick.
While I question the wisdom - and perhaps the lack of good manners - of holding a Gay Rights Parade in Jerusalem, I do wish the haredi would start to begin to think about the fact that they not rule the world. Incidentally, the Gay Rights Parade is an affront to the Muslim residents of the city, as well. Do they not protest because they are a minority? Or because it is not a Western habit they have adopted? Or because protesting is as rude as having the parade?
They glorify it, they hold it up as a virtue. The are the Jewish equivalent of those baptists from tennessee who claim every evil in society has been caused by gays and that God hates them. So much time filled with hate and kissing up to a god of vengeance and they have the chutzpah to call other sick and perverts. Look in a mirror.
When they would do the very same thing to them if the choice was theirs to make. Hypocrites and hasbarists
I've been at the Gan haatsamaout. There were about 10 protesters at the Kikar Tsarfat. Does it justify such a hate of haredim ? Keep porportion please..
Stay classy, heterosexuals. Stay classy.
The irrational hate (sinat xinam) against innocent gay women and men, is exactly why there must be gay marches. Jerusalem is the capital city of Israel, the location of the government, and the appropriate place for demonstrations.
Or are the parades simple there, because this is how they do things in US. Let's face it, we monkey just about everything from US or in some instances from Europe. But are those things necessarily right for us?
The homosexual community will have to take care of their own issues. That being said, who are we to decide for other how to live their lives? Have we learned so much from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that we should tell people how to live their lives, or how they should name themselves? Are we to be dictators to our own people? And just as importantly, is there any one of will not fail in someone else's judgement?
The Orthodox have religious beliefs that are protected with rights to express those beliefs. The gay community has relationships and attractions that are protected with rights to freely express themselves. So who's street is it to march down?
These right-wingers are a disgrace to Israel and all that she stands for.
Leviticus 18:22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" and Leviticus 20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, bothe of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them". God gave you the right to choose but choosing to be queer and participate in an abomination will bring judgment on you. You were not created that way: Homosexuality is a learned activity and it can be unlearned--that is repentance. After repentance can come forgiveness if you ask God for it. He will not give you a burden that is too hard to bear.
Imagine how different things would have been if you had never been told of any religion. For one thing you wouldn't go around calling other people abominations.
The only real abomination is the loss of charity towards one's neighbour, that covers everything..
I don't think it was elpratt who called homosexuality an abomination. HaShem did! And that's good enough for me.
The issue is between HaShem and the gays. You have nothing to do with it. Since when do you confuse yourself with HaShem?
Why do they insist on rubbing everyones noses into their lifestyle? They can do whatever they want discretely and privately and as long as nobody is harmed. But to keep flaunting themselves the way they do is sickening and makes them look like preverted scum.
First of all, that's not rubbing our noses in it, it's reminding us that they exist. Rubbing our noses in it would be a lot more graphic. But secondly, they have rallys the same reason that we do. Why do we have yom hatzmaut rallies in montreal, toronto, new york, etc? Why was there a million man march in DC? There're always arabs in mtl who are angry and protesting the yom hatzmaut rallies. But we keep it up for unity, and to remind ourselves that we are proud of who we are.