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Whew! Its about time SOMEONE spoke up!
Althought its still not on a level that attracts national headlines im sure, but its something.
I don't know about other groups speaking up against the "Christian Right" but maybe if you have some info on that you could post it as well.
http://urj.org/pr/2005/051119c/
Althought its still not on a level that attracts national headlines im sure, but its something.
I don't know about other groups speaking up against the "Christian Right" but maybe if you have some info on that you could post it as well.
Rabbi Yoffie said:Yoffie said the lay leaders and clergy assembled “are religious Jews, gathered in Houston to study, pray, and commit ourselves to God. And yes, we are generally liberal in our politics,” adding, “our liberalism flows directly from our religious commitments.”
Drawing the distinction even further between a liberal religious believer and the Religious Right, Yoffie continued, saying that the former believe that “’family values’ requires providing health care to every child and that God cares about the 12 million children without health insurance.
“It means valuing a child with diabetes over a frozen embryo in a fertility clinic, and seeing the teaching of science as a primary social good.
And it means reserving the right for each person to prayerfully make decisions for herself about when she dies.”
And, he said, “it means believing in legal protection for gay couples,” noting that there is room for disagreement about gay marriage, “but there is no excuse for hateful rhetoric that fuels the hellfires of anti-gay bigotry.”
Yoffie accused the Religious Right of refusing to acknowledge that there are religious perspectives different from its own, and of misreading religious texts sacred to both Christians and Jews. He noted that “the Bible, both Hebrew and Christian, has far more to say about caring for the poor than about eradicating sexual sin.”
http://urj.org/pr/2005/051119c/