Breaking Religion's Back

 

            Jon Dougherty wrote in World Net Daily on November 13, 2001 how the Salvation Army flip-flopped in gay rights for its employees. First the Western Territory Salvation Army capitulated to the gay lobby and endorsed partner benefits for its employees, even homosexuals, but then the National Office of the Salvation Army reversed itself, refusing to give employee benefits to homosexual partners of Salvation Army employees. San Francisco does not give money to organizations unless they recognize gay partners for their employees and give them marital benefits.

            "This is the next phase of the gender battles with the gay lobby," said Rabbi David Eidensohn of the National Non-Sectarian Council of Pro-Family Activists. "All religious institutions will be threatened with a cutoff of government funding if they do not accept homosexuality as marriage regarding employee benefits."

            Rabbi Eidensohn, in an interview with Michael Harrington on SNR radio, noted that the issue was not a simple one. "If an organization does not get government monies, it may have to cut its services and fire people whose life is with the institution" said the rabbi. "This may pressure even biblical administrators to relax the rules and save their institutions by accepting homosexuality, something that we vociferously oppose."

            Rabbi Eidensohn noted that the gay lobby is now battling religion on two fronts. On the one hand, they are trying to pressure them financially by cutting off funding, and on the other hand, they are trying to co-opt religion, and to enter into the religious community as homosexuals. For this reason, the head of a major radical organization just took a degree in divinity school, and then wrote on her website that the bible endorses homosexuality.

            The Orthodox Jewish community is being attacked by a gay who produced a movie about the travail of Orthodox homosexuals, those who want to be religious in a community that proscribes homosexuality. This is another form of attack on the biblical community, a most serious development. Now the hidden homosexuals in the biblical community, those who are religious, but cannot control their homosexual drives, will come out of the closet, and pressure the religion to accept them, and inspire others to join their gay ranks.

            Rabbi Eidensohn noted that many homosexuals have become heterosexual with therapy. He called upon the biblical community to strengthen those organizations, like Narth, which provide therapy for religious homosexuals. "We must develop new and easier techniques, to reach more and more religious homosexuals, and even secular people, who know that living in homosexuality is a curse, spiritually, socially and emotionally. We cannot consign desperate people to a life where they may end up dying hideously with AIDS, because we don't publicize and improve conversion therapies," said the rabbi.

 

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