TV that’s All Gay, All Day
By Harmony Grant
Viacom Int., proud purveyor of the bump-and-grind trash pouring
from MTV and VH1, has a new offering for the uplift of America: Logo, “the
channel for gay America.”
While an ABC news poll shows that 58 percent of Americans believe
gay marriage should be illegal, Jewish leftists (like Sumner Redstone,
head of Viacom), are pushing against the grain for the gay agenda.
1
At NPN we have been criticized for generalizing about the anti-Christ
activism of organized Jewry. But when it comes to pushing for the
normalization of homosexuality, progressive Jewry is proud to take
credit.
The World Congress of GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender)
Jews boasts 50 member organizations. In New York alone, gay Jewish
organizations include Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, OrthoDykes,
and OrthoGays.
Although some Orthodox rabbis stand fast on Leviticus 18:22 and
its prohibition of sodomy, Reform Judaism has been ordaining gays
and lesbians since 1990. According to the Jewish daily Forward, conservative
rabbis will soon join them, consecrating same-sex marriage and ordaining
homosexual rabbis. 2
Last November, Abe Foxman (national director of the Anti-Defamation
League) and Rabbi Eric Yoffie (president of the enormous Union for
Reform Judaism) gave back-to-back speeches attacking the Christian
right. Yoffie’s union is the largest Jewish organization in
the United States and includes over 900 congregations.
What did this supposed man of God have to tell his flock? At the
Union's biannual convention, Yoffie sermonized to around 5,000 attendees
about the “appalling” idea that one group of people might
have found the absolute truth about God.
“What could be more bigoted than to claim that you have a
monopoly on God,” he huffed. You’d hope a man who thought
he was wrong about God wouldn’t be delivering a sermon. But
that irony was apparently lost on Yoffie.
He went on to denounce the “homophobia” of the religious
right, comparing it to Nazism. “There is no excuse,” he
said, “for hateful rhetoric that fuels the hellfires of anti-gay
bigotry.” Like Foxman, who also compared Bible-believing Christians
to Nazis, Yoffie obviously thinks it’s just fine to fuel the
hellfires of anti-Christianity.
Forward magazine praised Yoffie’s and Foxman’s blisteringly
anti-Christian screeds for giving “voice to something their
constituents have been thinking and feeling for a long time.”
One thing Jewish America is clearly thinking and feeling is that
homosexuality deserves public acceptance. In a 2004 Forward article,
Jay Michaelson explained the liberalizing of Jewish attitudes toward
sodomy. He quoted Jeremy Gordon, a student leader at the Jewish Theological
Seminary: “[Homosexuality] has become one of the most important
issues for the movement and the seminary and something leadership
from across the movement feel needs to be readdressed.”
Michaelson, who directs Nehirim: A Spiritual Initiative for GLBT
Jews and edits Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought
and Culture, comments
that even conservative Jews are considering new ways to read Jewish
laws against sodomy. But he says media shapes the sensibilities of
American Jews more than sacred texts ever will. “The rapid
change in the status of gay people within the Jewish community owes
as much to [TV show] Queer Eye as it does to novel interpretations
of Leviticus.”
Will evangelicals also be more influenced by media’s gay
agenda than by their own sacred text, the Bible? Jewish activists
hope so. With TV shows like Will and Grace (which ran for 8 years
and won truckloads of awards and award nominations), films like Brokeback
Mountain, and now an all-gay channel, Jewish media moguls’ motives
are clear: Bring gays out of the closet and kick Christian morals
to the curb.
Endnotes:
1 ABC, Gary Langer, June 5, 2006
2 Forward, “Key Rabbis Say Conservative Judaism Will Lift Gay
Ban,” Jennifer Siegel, Aug 25, 2006
Harmony Grant, the niece of Rev. Ted Pike, is a staff
writer and researcher for the National Prayer Network. For more of
her articles go to www.hisnamesake.blogspot.com..
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