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'Beast parade' held in Jerusalem

Haredim, extreme right-wing activists take to streets with parade of their own in protest of planned pride rally scheduled for Friday. During 'beast parade,' which follows same route as pride parade, protestors accompanied by goats, donkeys. Itamar Ben-Gvir: At least these animals haven't sinned

To each his own pride: The "beast parade" was held Thursday afternoon in Jerusalem as part of the protest parades against the mass event planned by the gay-lesbian community slated to take place Friday in the city.

Furthermore, haredim threw stones at drivers on a highway near Givat Shmuel. Traffic was not disrupted.

The "beast parade" in Jerusalem was started by hundreds of haredim and extreme right-wing activists.

They were accompanied by goats and donkeys and carried signs saying "Jerusalem, I am outraged" and "Enough uncleanliness" in the Rose Garden across from the Knesset compound, the location from which the pride parade is scheduled to embark Friday.

In the meantime, in light of increased security warnings and a heavy workload for the police, the parade organizers from the gay rights organization Open House said they are willing to hold the event in a closed facility, without a parade.

Among the protest marchers Thursday was Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extreme right-wing activist, who filed a petition against the pride parade in the High Court of Justice. "Even if the parade is authorized in a closed location, this, ultimately, is a victory for us," he said to Ynet.

About the beasts marching along with him Thursday, he claims, have a clear advantage over the participants of Friday's parade: "They, alas, haven't committed any sin."

The "beast parade" commenced after the High Court rejected the petition of animal rights group Let Animals Live  against exploiting animals.

The protestors mentioned that they intend to protest the pride event Friday even if it will be without a parade. "As the hours pass, the protest gains momentum," said one of them.
 
In the Palestinian Authority there are also concerns about "defiling Jerusalem." In a press conference in Hebron, Sheikh Abu Sneineh and Azmi Shiukhi, prominent Fatah activists in the city, warned against the "moral massacre" about to take place in Jerusalem

"The occupation hurts al-Aqsa and us but gives foreign anarchists defense and protection to march in the streets of the city. This is a cancer whose objective is to destroy the Islamic nation through humiliating Jerusalem by demonstrating the perversions of gays and lesbians. The world must unite against this ugly, unprecedented crime," the sheikh said.

Good for them to protest the march.

I can only look at that and see Satan working his wiley way... What used to be called gay pride is now called pride...as if you cannot have pride if you are not gay.

Sickening

That is the same as the terminology used in this article. Note the group protesting against the gay group are called extremists but look at the terms used for the gay and lesbians. Nothing extreme about them anymore.  ::)

Jerusalem 'gay' parade canceled 
Organizers preempt court in face of protests – stadium rally instead

In light of dozens of terrorist warnings and hundreds of thousands of expected protestors, the homosexual parade scheduled for Friday has been replaced by a rally. Only minor protests are expected.


While the Supreme Court prepares to hand down its response to four petitioners who demand that the parade be legally stopped, the organizers have essentially thrown in the towel on their own.

Fearful that the police would cancel the parade because of both increasing terror warnings and unyielding religious-community threats to actively protest it, the Jerusalem Open House - organizer of the parade - pre-emptively canceled it on its own.

Instead, it will hold a closed event in the stadium of the Givat Ram campus of Hebrew University, not far from the government complex.

Organizers of the religious protests convened afterwards to decide if and how to continue the protests. One rabbi from the Shas Party camp, Rabbi Eldad Shmueli, said that though he perceived a victory of sorts, "it is still our obligation to protest against a public display of rebellion against G-d. True, it is not in the streets - but it is in an open stadium, and the desecration is nearly the same... We cannot be concerned with public opinion, but rather with protesting against open rebellion against G-d's will."

Speaking with Arutz-7, Rabbi Shmueli explained how he sees the "Divine hand" in evidence throughout the last few months:
"The left-wing public often threatens that when they finish with the Arab problem and bring peace, then they'll start dealing with the religious problems - which means to make war with us. So we see that when they wanted to hold this international abomination parade last summer, the war in Lebanon came along to stop them. And now again, they were about to hold it - and suddenly comes this event in Beit Hanoun with the 20 dead that compels the police to have to deal with terror threats. Not to mention that some of them simply became afraid to march..."

The organizers of other protests were also convening this afternoon to decide how to respond to the victory. Yaakov Shternberg of Jerusalem, one of the organizers of the religious-Zionist protests, told Arutz-7, "Basically, we have already won. But we may still hold a dignified mass protest in Kiryat Moshe [a Jerusalem neighborhood just west of Givat Ram] in any event."

Afterwards, at approximately 4 PM, it was learned that the leaders of the largest groups of protestors - hareidi-religious sage Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv and Eida Hareidit head Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss - had agreed not to protest against the planned stadium rally tomorrow. However, their conditions include: the release of all the hareidi protestors arrested this week, no parade next year, and no signs of the rally outside the stadium. It is likely that only the first condition will be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, the Komemiyut religious activist organization conducted a parade of sheep, horses, dogs and donkeys in Jerusalem this afternoon, in protest of the homosexual march. The theme of the parade is that bestiality and homosexuality are both forbidden, in consecutive verses, by the same Torah (Leviticus 18). A court petition by an animal rights' organization against the march was turned down, but the organizers were warned to treat the animals without cruelty.

In the Supreme Court
Rabbi Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the ZAKA organization; Chief Rabbi of Rehovot, Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook; Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Eli Yishai, head of the Shas party; and right-wing activist Baruch Marzel of Hevron all filed anti-gay parade petitions with the Supreme Court this week. Rabbi Kook burst into tears during Wednesday's proceedings.

Despite petitioners’ warnings that allowing the event would likely result in violence and possibly bloodshed, the judges did not appear to favor any move to relocate, postpone or block the parade.

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“The question of violence must be dropped because there is no way to 'find a balance' between freedom of speech and violence,” said Judge Ayala Procaccia. “The police will not give in to it and the court will not give in to it.”

Opposition in Israel, New York, and the Vatican
In addition to this week's daily and nightly violent protests by hareidi-religious Jews in various communities around Israel, new voices were added Wednesday to the massive groundswell against the homosexual march in the nation’s capital.

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky told reporters that he personally opposes the parade, but noted that police would be able to protect the marchers if they go ahead with the event. The mayor added, however, that the police would not be able to stop the widespread protests, the violence, the widening chasm in Israeli society and the property damage that will result from the protests.

The leader of Jerusalem’s Eida Hareidit Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, has contacted hareidi-Orthodox leaders affiliated with the Satmar Hassidic sect in New York City to coordinate overseas protests. It was decided that on Thursday at 3:30 PM, a protest would be held outside the Israeli Consulate on 42nd Street in Manhattan. The protest is expected to draw tens of thousands.

Satmar, based in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, is affiliated with the Eida Hareidit and is considered the largest hassidic sect in the world, numbering over 120,000 members.

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The Vatican released a statement on Wednesday night, calling on Israel to rethink permitting the gay parade.

The Vatican stated permitting the parade will be an affront to all three religions -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and called on Israel to limit freedom of speech to that which is correct.

Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco announced last night that he would ask Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to delay the parade in view of the nationwide security alert.

Israel police are operating on a Level 3 alert following the deaths of 19 Arab civilians in an apparent IDF mishap during a retaliatory artillery attack against rocket launching areas in northern Gaza. Palestinian Authority leaders and terrorist organizations have called for Arabs to attack Jews both in Israel and worldwide.

Police reported more than 80 terror alerts this morning, including 15 “hot alerts,” referring to credible intelligence information of specific planned attacks.

The alert status was expected to move to Level 4 Friday morning if the parade was to have been held as scheduled.

Brothers and Sisters,

I am very happy to hear that this abomination has been canceled. This has been a matter of prayer for me every since I first heard of it. I even signed a petition to stop it. I don't consider this simply as an affront to religion, rather a slap in the face to GOD. Some who study Bible Prophecy will understand my thoughts better, but worse things will happen in Jerusalem during the Tribulation Period. JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF will rule and reign over the earth from Jerusalem for 1,000 years from the Throne of David after HIS Second Coming.

Open defiance of GOD is bad anywhere, but the gay and lesbian folks chose Jerusalem because of its significance in the Holy Bible and its significance to GOD.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 8:26-27 NASB  In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Agreed and the comment from the Vatican was actually smart....something you would not expect coming from an organization that has homosexual pedophiles for its leaders.

But I am sure there were some folks that would have been thinking "Let them have the rally in the stadium...they are all together and it will be much easier than if they were all marching down the street."  BOOOOM

One of the reasons there is so much more of the gay rights movement here in the states is because we are so much more tolerant of that.  Holding a gay pride march in a place such as Israel region is like a rich man walking alone at night in the most crime ridden part of a major city.  Asking for trouble.