http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2007/06/22/gay-bash-a-bust-but-watch-for-precedent-4/ The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People Wed, 23 May 2012 07:26:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2007/06/22/gay-bash-a-bust-but-watch-for-precedent-4/#comment-35630 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:14:09 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2007/06/22/gay-bash-a-bust-but-watch-for-precedent-4/#comment-35630 [...] Is there a not message here for the contemporary State of Israel, with it’s government-invested Hasbara efforts directed toward “gay and swinger-friendliness” and in what we learn in our Parsha about Hashem’s wrath upon Sodom? Is there not a message here for those who prey on the shy, perhaps those not so socially-interactive with their type of gay “outreach?” [...] […] Is there a not message here for the contemporary State of Israel, with it’s government-invested Hasbara efforts directed toward “gay and swinger-friendliness” and in what we learn in our Parsha about Hashem’s wrath upon Sodom? Is there not a message here for those who prey on the shy, perhaps those not so socially-interactive with their type of gay “outreach?” […]

]]> http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2007/06/22/gay-bash-a-bust-but-watch-for-precedent-4/#comment-14905 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:01:01 +0000 http://www.sefer-torah.com/blog/2007/06/22/gay-bash-a-bust-but-watch-for-precedent-4/#comment-14905 [...] Our parsha also coincided with another attempt at a “gay display” in Jerusalem which proved to be a bust. It was a bust except for future precedent — the future demands for a more provocative public spectacle which would cross over all of the moral “red lines”, the bounds of what is appropriate, to that which lends itself to spinning Israel as being gay and swinger-friendly in so-called “international markets.” [...] […] Our parsha also coincided with another attempt at a “gay display” in Jerusalem which proved to be a bust. It was a bust except for future precedent — the future demands for a more provocative public spectacle which would cross over all of the moral “red lines”, the bounds of what is appropriate, to that which lends itself to spinning Israel as being gay and swinger-friendly in so-called “international markets.” […]

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