Israel – Jerusalem’s mayor says he will forgo the city’s annual gay pride parade because it is offensive to religious residents.
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Nir Barkat says in an interview published Wednesday that the gay community has the right to march but that the pride event is also “troublesome” to others in the city.
Thursday’s march will be heavily secured after an extremist ultra-Orthodox Jew stabbed revelers at last year’s parade, killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding seven people.
The man, Yishai Schlissel, had been released weeks earlier, after serving a sentence for stabbing several people at the 2005 pride parade.
Rich in religious history and tradition, Jerusalem holds a modest gay pride parade annually, in contrast to the raucous event in the liberal city of Tel Aviv, which this year drew some 200,000 people.
Finally someone who does it right.
I admire him for this. Well done.
The Mayor is doing the right thing. Just because some no longer regard sodomy as a form of behaviour plumbing the depths of depravity, doesn’t mean it needs to be flaunted.
He gets my vote! Well, if I could vote there.
He has several gay members in his family. Why be such a hypocrit?
“2005 pride parade”? 10 years ago?. In Saudi Arabia the toeiva crowd would be long gone by now, but the Zionists allow it, but don’t allow right wing Yidden to march in Yerushalayim on Yom Yerushalayim.
#5 he is not being a hypocrite. He is simply saying that decency is not to offend others, and since this offends religious Jews, lets skip it. Well done!