[WCUSP] Fw: [NCC] Anti-Gay Pride March C'tee Wants Half-Million People at Rally

[Libby or Mort Frank]

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> Anti-Gay Pride March C'tee Wants Half-Million People at Rally
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> by Gil Ronen
> The Committee for Cancellation of the Gay Pride March filed a request 
> Sunday to hold a mammoth protest, attended by half a million people, at 
> the entrance to Jerusalem. The request was made after police told 
> representatives of the homosexual community they would be allowed to march 
> through Jerusalem on June 21st.
>
> The Commander of the Israel Police's Jerusalem Region, Maj.-Gen Ilan 
> Franco, met Sunday with representatives of Jerusalem's homosexual activist 
> group, "Open House," and told them that a green light had been granted for 
> holding the "Gay Pride March" – known to detractors as the "Abomination 
> March"– in the Holy City on June 21st.
>
> The police said that the location of the march and its format had not been 
> decided yet. However, "Open House" representatives claimed that Franco had 
> agreed to let the parade march through central Jerusalem and to provide 
> large scale security.
>
> The previous homosexual march planned for Jerusalem was replaced by a 
> rally at the closed-off university stadium after strong protests by 
> hareidi-religious Jews, which included threats of violence. An earlier 
> parade ended with the stabbing of several participants by one man.
>
> 'The idea of renewing the Gay Pride event is an existential threat to the 
> People of Israel,' the Council of Yesha Rabbis said
>
> "We will act legally, but if there is a demonstration by hundreds of 
> thousands [against the march], the possibility of holding [it] in 
> Jerusalem will be erased," said Committee representatives.
>
> Earlier Sunday, the Committee reportedly published a call by “all Orthodox 
> Rabbis in Israel” to work toward the cancellation of the march in 
> Jerusalem.
>
> The Council of Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) Rabbis published a letter 
> Sunday in which they asked everyone to do all they could, through legal 
> means, to prevent the march from taking place. They wrote: “We were 
> shocked to the depth of our souls to see that the evil of the people who 
> terrorized Israel last autumn is still going strong and the shame of 
> Israel is open before the world.”
>
> “The idea of renewing the Gay Pride event is an existential threat to the 
> People of Israel,” the Council said. "Every soul is filled with dread in 
> the face of the repeated intention of defiling Jerusalem in a provocative 
> way, through use of impurities.
>
> Ronen Reiss, a member of the Committee for Cancellation of the Gay Pride 
> March, said that following the Police's decision, they have begun printing 
> posters calling on people to forcefully resist the parade that will 
> "defile the holy city."
>
> The posters will bear the signatures of prominent rabbis from different 
> streams within Orthodox Judaism, including Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, 
> former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, former Ashkenazi Chief 
> Rabbi Avraham Shapira, Yesha Rabbis, and many more.
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