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Jews, Muslims join to fight gay parade
Jerusalem event sparks anger, riots
Rabbi Levin Speaks To 1.5 Million Italians Turn Out in Massive Rome Protest Against Homosexual Civil Unions By Gudrun Schultz Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi decided to attend the event when he saw an anti-Catholic cartoon about "Family Day" in the Communist Il Manifesto. Speaking out against those who claim to be Catholic while holding positions in opposition to Church teaching, Berlusconi said, "Left-wing Catholics are an insurmountable contradiction."
"You cannot be at the same time Catholics - and as such considerate of the doctrine of the Church and its teachings on various questions - and then stand with those who are cheek by jowl on the other side."
He went on, "In these recent times there is an attack on the freedom of the Church to express its own convictions. There comes to my mind what happened in the Communist countries, the Church of silence that could speak only within the ambit of its own buildings." (Translation by Fr. Zuhlsdorf.)
More than 1,000 U.S. rabbis joined in solidarity with pro-family demonstrators in Rome--Rabbi Yehuda Levin, with the Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, sent a statement of support and solidarity to organizers of the Rome event and the Warsaw pro-family Congress.
Rabbi Levin applauded "the millions of morally decent family orientated Italians who utterly reject any legislative efforts to accord recognition to homosexual unions." read more...
TIME magazine NOV 3 2006 Hatred (of Gays) Unites Jerusalem's Feuding Faiths The anti-gay bandwagon has even attracted support from abroad. Rabbi Yehuda Levin, of the Orthodox Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada, has been carrying out a three-year campaign against what he calls "the homosexualization of the Holy Land." It was Levin who crossed the boundaries of religious and ethnic hostility and recruited the support of prominent Palestinian Islamic cleric Taisser Tamimi against the parade. read more...
1,000 U.S. Rabbis Hail Pro-Family Events source: www.zenit.org/article-19620?l=englishProminent rabbi: Abortionists murderers Former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Eliyahu says, ‘In Egypt there was also an advisory committee that decided that is permissible to bathe in the blood of Jewish babies Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, representing some 1,000 rabbis, sent a statement of support Friday to organizers of a rally against homosexual union legislation in Rome, and to the World Congress of Families meeting in Warsaw, Poland.
The statement will be read at both the Family Day rally read more...
Rabbi Yehuda Levin: If Catholic Leaders Rally, Jews and Evangelicals Would Follow Today LifeSiteNews.com interviewed Rabbi Levin in Jerusalem who related in detail what was discussed in the meeting and the proposal he made to Rome. Levin stated he met with Bishop Karl Josef Romer, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family and ‘right-hand man’ to Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo; Bishop Brian Farrell of the Commission for the Religious Rapport with Judaism and vice president to Cardinal Walter Kaspar, head of the Office of Christian Unity; and Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro, director of Human Life International in Italy. read more... |
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