Rabbi Yehuda Levin, associated with the National Organization For Marriage (NOM), just blamed last week’s horrific murder of an 8 year-old New York City boy on gay marriage and what he sees as the complacency of the Jewish Orthodox community in Brooklyn, the boy’s home.
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Jeremy Hooper of Good As You uncovered this video and provides this transcription.
Why was this [death of Kletzky] allowed to happen? Let’s think about it. If we go back to the cause, the effect was he was the victim, but the cause was a Jew [Yiddish] that the evil will come to destroy you within your midst. If it would have been a Gentile, people would be able to say, ‘oh this is from the secular society.’ But this is not from the secular society. This is, for too long we have been turning our cheek, we have been turning away and ignoring the agenda of the [Yiddish] — first they wanted rights, then they wanted adoption, they wanted special protections, and ultimately they wanted marriage — and we all know that we did precious little. If those three or four thousand people, at the direction of their leaders and their common sense, would have come out…against the marriage, against this final nail in the coffin of morality…maybe we wouldn’t have had to had this episode…replay itself.
“This came in the very aftermath of the marriage bill, my dear friends, and not doing anything.
“The problem with Anthony Weiner wasn’t that he inter-married in the last few years — far worse than his inter-marrying is the fact that he was pushing same-gender marriage and all the shmutz.”
Hooper, (whom you should read daily,) one of the LGBT community’s best bloggers and advocates, adds this:
“Yes, that’s right: He’s saying that the gays are out of control and the Orthodox Jews are complacent, so little Leiby’s murder was some sort of victim of the sodom agenda.’ This, the same guy who Brian and Maggie and company proudly buddy up with whenever they want a diverse photo-op.”
Move forward to 7:20 for the statement.
This was a terrible tragedy that happened not because loving same-sex couples were given the right to marry, but because the alleged murderer reportedly suffered from mental illness and did not receive help.
Who’s fault is that, Rabbi?
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