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(82,333 posts) Thu Dec 27, 2012, 01:39 AM Dec 2012

Political religious leader: Israel cannot recognize gay marriage [View all]

A leader of a right wing Israeli political party said Israel must not recognize same-sex marriage

26 December 2012 | By Dan Littauer

Naftali Bennett, chair of Habayit Hayehudi, a right-wing Israeli religious political party, said that he opposes same-sex marriage.

Israel is in the midst of political campaigns for the country’s elections on the 22 January 2013.

Answering a question regarding same-sex marriage from a student during a political campaign on Tuesday (25 December), Bennett was quoted by the daily Haaretz as saying: ‘These are two clashing values.

‘I am for “live and let live”, but this clashes with the values of Israel as a Jewish state. It has a set of family values. The state cannot absorb or contain official recognition of same-sex marriage’.

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/political-religious-leader-israel-cannot-recognize-gay-marriage261212

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Political religious leader: Israel cannot recognize gay marriage [View all] rug Dec 2012 OP

Oh, Naftali Bennett and his stupid party! LeftishBrit Dec 2012 #1

The rhetoric is almost identical to the U.S. right. rug Dec 2012 #2