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Clerics Fighting a Gay Festival for Jerusalem



http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/international/worldspecial/31gay.html?

Yeah us!

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and came back in. you are right. that is jusst what they have done. before they were bigots with the black and women adn gays, just out of hate. now they use they bible for their hate. i watched a history of kkk and nazi party in the u.s. it rears its ugly head every so many decades. the same people, they just present it a certain way. they are back. we are in the mist of it. and soon it will be knocked down again. only to return when people start forgetting again

that's a problem... it's only the "fundamentalists". So we are assured by liberal religionists on DU.

So why do I feel so NOT assured?

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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

One day later, however, Pope John Paul II appeared on a balcony over St. Peter's Square and delivered a message expressing his "bitterness" that the gay festival had gone forward, calling it an "offense to the Christian values of a city that is so dear to the hearts of Catholics across the world."

Mr. Giovinetti circulated a petition against the festival, titled "Homosexuals to Desecrate Jerusalem," ...