{"id":88871,"date":"2019-05-28T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/religious-leader-asks-mayor-to-ban-rainbow-flags-during-pride\/"},"modified":"2019-05-28T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:25:56","slug":"religious-leader-asks-mayor-to-ban-rainbow-flags-during-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/religious-leader-asks-mayor-to-ban-rainbow-flags-during-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious leader asks mayor to ban rainbow flags during Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Religious leader asks mayor to ban rainbow flags during Pride<\/b><\/p>\n

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Aryeh Stern, the 74-year-old chief rabbi of Jerusalem, recently asked the city\u2019s Mayor Moshe Lion to ban rainbow flags<\/a> during next week\u2019s Pride Parade. This is a bit like asking to ban American flags during a 4th of July celebration.<\/p>\n

In his letter, Stern wrote:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo my great regret, I request on this painful subject of the \u2018March.\u2019 I know from the point of view of the law, the mayor has no ability to prevent the parade, and therefore I ask you to at least give a ruling for the flags not to be waved, as they make the city ugly.<\/p>\n

I trust you to act wisely to remove this disgrace from us, especially now in these holy days between Jerusalem Day and Shavuot.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When asked about his letter, Stern explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t ask to ban parade participants from waving the flags. I asked that the municipality, which is hanging flags along the route, not do that, especially near the city\u2019s magnificent synagogues. It\u2019s not appropriate that the flags should fly there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFlags are an expression of friendship, participation and identification. We\u2019re talking about hurting feelings \u2014 what they symbolize hurts the feelings of much greater portions of the population than those who do want the flags.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not trying to harm the parade itself or the people in it, or their personal behaviors. We have no interest in that. That\u2019s not the issue. The issue is the public space, and I represent the opinion of many good people in Jerusalem. This is an explicit prohibition in the Torah, these are serious things, and for this we wave flags? Imagine if we were waving flags in support of a movement to eat pig.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stern added that he didn\u2019t think his letter to the mayor would be published and wondered whether he\u2019d made a mistake by writing it, stating, \u201cI did not think it would make such a ruckus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related:\u00a0Rabbi who attempted to seduce teen boy with x-rated pics and chats slapped with two day jail sentence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stern himself is no friend of teh gayz. In 2018, the ultra-orthodox rabbi opposed allowing same-sex<\/a> couples<\/a> the right to have children born through surrogates, stating that the children\u2019s lives would be \u201cwretched\u2026 very strange and unnatural.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerusalem Pride is just one of 50 Pride events that will be held throughout Israel this year. According to the Times of Isreal<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe Jerusalem Municipality said in a statement that the flags would be put up like in previous years ahead of the June 6 rally, in accordance with court rulings on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Religious leader asks mayor to ban rainbow flags during Pride Aryeh Stern, the 74-year-old chief rabbi of Jerusalem, recently asked the city\u2019s Mayor Moshe Lion to ban rainbow flags during next week\u2019s Pride Parade. This is a bit like asking to ban American flags during a 4th of July celebration. 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