Religious leaders unite against Jerusalem gay festival

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/afplifestylemideastreligiongay


JERUSALEM (AFP) - Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders launched a united campaign against an international gay festival set to take place in Jerusalem this year, saying it would unleash destruction on the city.

"This is nothing less than the spiritual rape of the Holy City," said Rabbi Yehuda Levine, from the Rabbinical Alliance of America, describing the 10-day festival, known as World Pride 2005, as "moral terrorism".


"This is not the homo land, this is the holy land," he told a news conference in Jerusalem convened by religious leaders from the three faiths.

"Don't anger our God. If we let people who follow the wrong way (come here) we will lose this city... and there'll be no holiness left here. We will stop it," said Sheikh Abed el-Salem Menasra, deputy to the Grand Mufti.

The last World Pride event, held in Rome in 2000, drew nearly 250,000 people.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

1. "... and there'll be no holiness left here"

lol
yes the gays are going to make the "holiness" run out. your god is an awesome god.

[Atlas Mugged]

2. "Moral terrorism"????

What an offensive creep. I'm particularly amused by "Don't anger our god". That's the most meaningless threat I've ever encountered.

[TlalocW]

3. Okay, while anyone should be able to have a festival anywhere

Why would you pick Jerusalem for ANY event - not just a gay festival? That has been, is, and always will be the land of the permanently pissed off religious factions, and any group that decides to have a festival there will be a target if one of the factions - Jewish, Christian, or Muslim - thinks it's in their best interests to make a case out of it - whether it's a gay festival or a Girl Scout Jamboree.

TlalocW

[Zenlitened]

4. Real ambassadors for religion, aren't they?

"Homo-land"?

Worship "the wrong way"?

Unreal.