Jewish Rabbi Explains Why Opposition to Gay Marriage is Not Discrimination

NEW YORK, March 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Rabbi Aryeh Spero, President of Caucus for America, has written a column for Cybercast News Service in which he explains that traditional marriage does not and has never discriminated against homosexuals.  The Rabbi points out that “Whatever their announced orientation, homosexuals have the same right as everyone else to marriage as defined, across the board, by our laws and history: the union of one man (whatever his sexual orientation) to one woman (whatever her orientation). The existing institution of marriage is open to all.”  Rabbi Spero also smashes false comparisons of discrimination against blacks and Jews to the marriage debate.  “In times past when blacks were denied the right to vote, it was discrimination since others had that right. When in certain locales in deep medieval Europe Jews were forbidden to marry it was discrimination since all others could marry. These were discriminations and exclusions born of prejudice based not on what but who.  Once given the right to marry, it would have been preposterous for a Jew to claim discrimination if the state outlawed him from marrying, for example, an aunt. Nor could a black man cry discrimination if after being given the right to vote he demanded that he be allowed to vote while underage.”  Read the Rabbi’s full commentary:  https://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCommentary.asp?Page=Commentaryarchive