(No links since I’m Treo blogging)
Sticking with the gay rights theme from the past three posts: What is wrong with my former denomination, the Conservative Jewish movement? Today they announced three sanctioned positions for Rabbi’s to take on the question of gay relations and marriage. (Leave it to us Jews to agree on three *conflicting* stances.)
The so-called “compromise” position, and the only one to propel the Conservative movement forward on this issue, would allow gay rabbis to be ordained and remove the restrictions on gay marriage. The act of sodomy, however, remains an abomination. Why is the Rehnquist court to the *left* of these rabbis?!
I have no doubt that every rabbi who marries two men knows _exactly_ what is going on in the honeymoon suite. So let’s not kid ourselves. The Torah is wrong here. The sooner we accept that the faster we can move on. (We? I mean “they”. I’m firmly ensconced in the reconstructionist movment now.)
And, while I’m on the topic, congrats to Mary Cheney! Janeite informs me the case law on second parent adoptions in VA is unclear to non-existant. Hopefully this happy event for the second family will instigate into some happy VA legislation. (Though I’m not holding my breath.)
And who knows, maybe today’s announcement was the result of egg fusion and they won’t need the case law. Mary? The world wants to know.