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Dec. 8th, 2006 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Some days, I really love my people. The (Conservative) Rabinnical Assembly has just decided to allow the ordination of gay rabbis and the celebration of same-sex "commitment ceremonies." Maybe. It really depends on how you define the word "decision." As the New York Times puts it:
...in a reflection of the divisions in the movement, the 25 rabbis on the law committee passed three conflicting legal opinions — one in favor of gay rabbis and unions, and two against. In doing so, the committee left it up to individual synagogues to decide whether to accept or reject gay rabbis and commitment ceremonies, saying that either course is justified according to Jewish law.
Either course is justified according to Jewish law! That's hysterical! That's so typical of the Conservative movement! What makes this especially good is that it's taken the committe something like fifteen years to produce this ruling, and in the end all they can manage is "Maybe. If you want."
...in a reflection of the divisions in the movement, the 25 rabbis on the law committee passed three conflicting legal opinions — one in favor of gay rabbis and unions, and two against. In doing so, the committee left it up to individual synagogues to decide whether to accept or reject gay rabbis and commitment ceremonies, saying that either course is justified according to Jewish law.
Either course is justified according to Jewish law! That's hysterical! That's so typical of the Conservative movement! What makes this especially good is that it's taken the committe something like fifteen years to produce this ruling, and in the end all they can manage is "Maybe. If you want."
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Date: 2006-12-08 05:42 pm (UTC)I'm grinning. Y'all are looking pretty awesome from where I stand right now.
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Date: 2006-12-08 05:51 pm (UTC)I kinda agree with monanotlisa: that looks pretty awesome in a giggling kind of way ;)
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Date: 2006-12-08 07:37 pm (UTC)My favorite part is where they say that gay marriage is okay as long as men don't commit sodomy, but they promise not to, you know, actually check up on that last part. What I want to know is, does that m/m blowjobs are totally okay by the Torah?
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Date: 2006-12-08 07:48 pm (UTC)Apparently so! I mean, they're not like wearing a cotton-wool blend or something. But presumably you... you know, I was just going to write something a little graphic to do with Onan, but I won't.
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