Leading Orthodox rabbi slams Jewish Conservatives’ gay ‘marriage’ vote
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) — After leaders in the Conservative Jewish community voted to officially endorse gay marriage rituals, one leading Orthodox rabbi has said the move is “depraved” and “turning everything holy on its head.” Last week, guidelines for performing same-sex “marriages” were voted on by the Jewish Conservatives’ highest legal body, the Rabbinical Assembly ’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards . The guidelines passed in a 13-0 vote, with one rabbi abstaining. Rabbi Yehuda Levin “We acknowledge that these partnerships are distinct from those discussed in the Talmud as ’according to the law of Moses and Israel,’ but we celebrate them with the same sense of holiness and joy as that expressed in heterosexual marriages,” the approved document says. The approval by the Conservative branch of Judaism in the United States of gay unions follows on the prior support of the Reform and Reconstructionist branches. But Rabbi Levi...