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Transcript Of Rabbinical Alliance of America – Voting Ban
By admin | May 27, 2009
May 27, 2009
The following is a transcript of a statement delivered by Rabbi Yehuda Levin on May 24, 2009, in Brooklyn. It includes several addenda.
National Rabbinic Group Issues Religious Ban On Voting For Candidates Or Officeholders Who Support Same Gender Marriage
America – America G-d shed his grace on thee!
In light of the alarming advances of pro-homosexual legislation such as the Federal Hate Crimes legislation which does not exempt clergy or religious people quoting the Torah or Bible, as well as the push for same gender marriage in various states including New York; The Rabbinical Alliance of America, a 65 year old national Orthodox organization compromising over 870 Rabbis, hereby issues the following statement at an emergency convocation held on May 24, 2009, in Brooklyn, New York.
“We hereby declare that it is prohibited according to Jewish law for anyone to vote, financially support or honor any candidate for public office who supports the political homosexual agenda which includes, but is not limited to: Homosexual marriage and/or adoption, the so called Employment Non-Discrimination Act which forces religious institution or adherents to hire and not fire flagrant ostentatious homosexuals, enshrining the homosexual agenda in school curricula and any similar legislation or movements.
It is late in the game as we take note of the following:
#1 The Federal Court’s Parker decision in Massachusetts denying parents the right to remove their children from classes teaching homosexual propaganda like Heather has 2 mommies to 5-7 year old children. This is also being planned by school officials in Alameda County, California, and various other locations across the country.
#2 A Methodist Church in New Jersey refuses to rent out their wedding hall for a lesbian commitment ceremony. They lose their non-for-profit tax status.
#3 The New Hampshire legislature votes for same gender marriage and refuses to pass any amendment which would exempt clergy from being forced to solemnize these marriages.
#4 Canada has fined clergy for merely writing letters to newspapers citing religious opposition to parts of the homosexual agenda.
#5 Swedish Pastor Ake Green imprisoned for preaching in his church about Biblical opposition to homosexuality.
#6 Recent British regulation would force churches to hire flagrant homosexuals as youth leaders. And the list goes on.
For too long, we have ignored the constant ever encroaching outrageous advances of the militant homosexual agenda and their allies in the media and politics. We are now at the midnight hour. If we don’t push back now, we will be absolutely unable to continue living our religious lives in these United States.
We join the Central Rabbinical Congress of Chasidic Jews who issued such an edict 25 years ago but then shelved it. We call upon them as well as all Orthodox Jewish Rabbinic and Civil groups including Agudath Israel of America, the Rabbinical Conference of America, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the National Council of Young Israel, etc., to join with us and create a united Orthodox Jewish front to defend ourselves from this frontal attack on our most basic religious values and freedoms.
For far too long, craven politicians have been buying our community’s allegiance by pandering to our institutions, giving them government grants in return for our votes despite their kowtowing to the increasingly powerful and power hungry homosexual lobby. We must break our addiction to these government funds and tell the politicians: they may be going to Hell, but we are not going with them!
Finally, we fully realize that the Orthodox Jewish community is relatively small. Therefore we call upon the Christian denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the Pentecostals, all similar Evangelical groups, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Moslems and other religious groups to issue similar bans prohibiting voting for homosexualist politicians. Simply put, these people are advancing an agenda meant to brainwash our children, muzzle our religious teachers, brand us as bigots and discriminatory, and make our lives intolerable. Similarly, we appeal to family oriented Hispanics and Blacks to rise up and speak up in denying that the homosexual movement is a legitimate civil rights category. A moral wrong can never be a civil right.
If this year they will G-d forbid pass legislation permitting same gender marriage, next year it will be legislation permitting nephews to marry aunts and the year afterwards lowering the age of sexual consent to 14. All this will be aimed at getting the heterosexual community more involved in licentiousness of the heterosexual sort, so that we will no longer be opposed to the debauchery of the homosexual militants. Furthermore, all the brainwashing of young school children (whose sexual identities are still fluid) will allow for more of a pool of potential partners for deviant homosexuals. (Statistics show that 30 percent of children who are homosexually molested and thus indoctrinated into the lifestyle, go on to abuse others even as adults. Obviously, at young ages, youth can be impacted to a homosexual or bisexual lifestyle through physical abuse and logically can be “conditioned” to experiment with a lifestyle that school authority figures preach is normal.)
We appeal to all who see this video to send it to as many religious, moral friends as possible. All should lobby their own religious denominations to speedily come out with similar bans. We urge you to go to the website, godreignoverus.com and sign the petition pledge indicating you will no longer vote for these traitorous politicians. Kindly alert your friends and neighbors to this web-pledge. Ask them to sign on and forward the links to their associates.
Finally, we appeal to Pope Benedict, titular head of 1.2 billion Catholics, the largest denomination in the world: Please come out with a clear, unambiguous teaching, with no loopholes, which would totally prohibit voting, honoring, or supporting homosexualist politicians. If you do this, many denominations will follow internationally and we may yet rescue religious family values. Your actions in this crucial time, which calls for courageous, uncompromising, leadership, will surely be your legacy.
Here’s a shoutout to Bill O’Reilly who recently wrote that many clergy don’t wish to appear on his program opposing same gender marriage. Bill, my name is Rabbi Yehuda Levin; I am with the Rabbinical Alliance of America – see our videos on G-d reign over us – call us. I’ll be over in a jiffy!
A personal aside, here in NYC, we just had an attempted major terrorist attack on a synagogue and some 40 schools including several Jewish schools in Brooklyn closed because of fear of swine flu. We Jews believe that nothing occurs by chance. G-d is obviously sending us a serious message, which calls for introspection. The worst thing happening in New York now spiritually and otherwise is an attempt by prominent government officials to force deviancy down our throats and that of our children. We are not swine, we are not pigs, but we are getting the message to repent and fight against the immorality or we lose G-d’s grace and bad things happen.
It’s up to the religious grass roots to take the purity in politics, pledge, lobby our religious leaders to courageously lead and totally oppose the genetilia agenda! Thank you and G-d bless.
(Note: Several addenda were added to the original statement on May 26, 2009. We acknowledge the fact that the Central Rabbinical Congress of the US and Canada also joined in reissuing their ban and specifically applying it to the current push for same gender marriage.)
Rabbi Levin can be reached for interviews here.
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