Send Message to Rome and Warsaw
NEW YORK, MAY 13, 2007 ( Zenit.org).- More than 1,000 U.S. rabbis are joining in solidarity with pro-family gatherings this weekend in Rome and Warsaw.
Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, representing some 1,000 rabbis, sent a statement of support Friday to organizers of a rally against homosexual union legislation in Rome, and to the World Congress of Families meeting in Warsaw, Poland.
The statement will be read at both the Family Day rally, held today in Rome, and the World Congress of Families IV, which ended today in Warsaw.
Family Day
Speaking first to the organizers of the event in Rome, Rabbi Levin voiced strong support to the "millions of morally decent family orientated Italians who utterly reject any legislative efforts to accord recognition to homosexual unions."
He added that the promotion of a homosexual agenda "is a problem of domestic moral terrorism by those who boldly, flagrantly and proactively agitate to undermine the most basic values of society, a reverence for innocent life, and the Biblically ordained family unit."
Rabbi Levin continued: "The attempted homosexualization of the Holy Land with sacrilegious parades in Jerusalem, an affront to all religions, as well as the constant homosexual onslaught specifically in the shadows of the Vatican, such as is demonstrated by the debauchery of the homosexual celebrations in Rome 2000, and now again with this evil legislation, is a calculated international disparagement of religion, religious values and religion's leaders."
Warsaw congress
Addressing the World Congress of Families in Poland, Rabbi Levin said: "Today, several thousand righteous people from around the world are convening ... to deliberate on solutions to bolster the families beleaguered by the coarsening of culture in so many societies."
He urged the congress to "issue a declaration calling on the religious leaders of all denominations in every single house of worship, to educate their flock as to specific legislation and those who legislate it."
Code: ZE07051312
Date: 2007-05-13