Happy Gays Are Here Again

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France’s first gay grooms celebrate honeymoon in Tel Aviv -
Gay Sports News - After becoming the first gay couple to wed in France, Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau celebrated their honeymoon with 100,000 people at Tel Aviv’s gay pride weekend.
On 29 May 2013 Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau were the first gay couple in France after the country became the 14th in the world to legalize gay marriage and adoption. According to The Jerusalem Post, French Ambassador Christophe Bigot, who hosted the couple in Israel, said the couple represents the spirit of liberal French people, and he was excited to see them promote ‘tolerance and understanding’ around the world. Bigot said the couple was invited ‘to create new links between France and Israel’- more

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Money Changers in the Temple: Tel Aviv redefines itself as Gay Capital of the World
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (Catholic Online) - Just over a week ago, François Hollande signed a law which utterly destroyed the concept of marriage as it was known in France since medieval times. Under the law, two individuals of the same sex may now call themselves "married." Vincent Autin, 40, and Bruno Boileau, 29, were the first homosexual couple to get married under the new law. For their honeymoon, they visited Israel. The media followed the couple as though they were celebrities. They were invited to the opening event of Tel Aviv's Gay Pride Month. In honor of the event, the pillars on the Old City Hall were lit up in rainbow colors with trance music blaring from speakers.-more

Here and There

There is only one country in the Middle East that recognizes Feminists, Christians, Professors for Academic Freedom and Gays as having human rights. There is only one nation in the entire Middle East which respects their right to live openly as the people they are in the life style that they enjoy in the West.
That one country is the Jewish State of Israel.

The country that their organizations love to hate.
Bizarre!

Stoned in Jerusalem (1974)

Today's Golden Oldie is from 1974. Back then, stone-throwing mobs of Haredim ensured that the sabbath was not violated by vehicles driving through Mea Shearim, their main Jerusalem neighborhood.

* * * This cartoon is particularly pertinent today, 33 years later, in 2007 because we've had several days of stone-throwing mobs of Haredim trying to ensure that Jerusalem is not violated by a Gay Pride Parade. The parade is scheduled for later today. The police will be out in force, as will the religious protesters, and the gay and lesbian marchers. Starting at 2PM the center of the city will be closed to traffic.

I, on the other hand, will be in Jerusalem today for an appointment with a dentist at 1PM. So with a little bad luck I'll get caught in the action... and who knows, I might even get stoned!

It's a Riot! (1983)

Jerusalem, this morning's news:
Religious Jews take to the streets to protest (riot against?) a proposed Gay Pride parade:

Another night of protests in the capital: Some hundred Orthodox burn trash cans, block streets in Mea Shearim. Police forced to rescue taxi, bus. Jerusalem police chief consults on legal possibilities of canceling Jerusalem parade -more

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Inappropriate for the Holy City?

Religious Jerusalem residents,Christian, Jewish, and Muslim, all seem to be united in their opposition to the parade.

So how do you guys out in Blogland feel about the issue?
Nu?