The irony of gay marriage as a political wedge issue.

[icymist]

In the article below we see the Israeli Courts ordering recognition of gay marriage, even though only ultra-Orthodox Jews object. The only people objecting to gay marriage in the US are those who love to find reasons to hate, Evangelical Christians, and Republicans. In seeing that the bigots judge by the group, there is no reasonable explanation for their hatred. Evangelical Christians, on the other hand, object to gay marriage based on books written 6000 to 2000 years ago in the very land where gay marriage is now being ordered to be recognized. I suspect that this is an irony that even gay Republicans won't understand. It's the leaders of the Evangelical Christians that are to blame for guiding their followers to side with some very hateful people even as those very leaders are exposed to be the hypocrites that we, here at DU, already know them to be. Christians are not stupid people and I believe that a lot have begun to see through these wolves in sheep's clothing, mixing politics with religion.


Israel Orders Gay Marriage Recognition

JERUSALEM -- In a landmark ruling, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government Tuesday to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad.

The lone dissenter on the seven-judge panel was an observant Jew, highlighting the controversy the decision immediately touched off among ultra-Orthodox Jews and other conservative groups in Israel.

Efforts by Israel's gay community to win approval for same-sex marriage, a key issue in the U.S. and Europe, face a major obstacle because Israel's religious authorities have a monopoly over marriage and divorce.

Yossi Ben-Ari and Laurent Schuman were married in Canada after that country legalized same-sex marriage in 2003. Determined after a 21-year partnership to enjoy all the privileges of a married couple in Israel, they were among five couples who petitioned the Supreme Court to have their marriage registered here, too.
AP Wire

[Sapphocrat]

1. One small correction.

It's not just ultra-Orthodox Jews; marriage equality is the one thing that has brought together Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims -- who forgot how much they hate each other long enough to present a united front and fight, some violently, to stop Jerusalem's gay pride parade.

As I told a friend recently: Hey, maybe we just discovered our real purpose as gay people: Peace in the Middle East!