JUDAISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY:
A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL
By Rev. Ted Pike
22 Sep 06
Today, Judaism, more than any religion, has rejected moral judgments
against homosexuality, and supports the gay agenda. Reform Judaism,
representing 39 percent of American religious Jews, is now in total
endorsement of sodomy. It says:
We hold that homosexuality is no longer {an abomination}; it is
not a mental illness or social deviancy; it is not a perversion of
the natural order. Homosexuality is not a choice or a preference;
it is not something that one decides to do or abstain from doing.
It is, like, heterosexuality, the way one is. As such it makes no
sense on religious or moral grounds to differentiate between people
on the basis of sexual orientation.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union For Reformed Judaism,
concurs:
For the first time in history, a major rabbinical
body has affirmed the Jewish validity of committed, same-gender
relationships. 1
Conservative rabbis, who lead 33 percent of religious Jews, announce
they will soon ordain gay rabbis and encourage homosexuality for
Jewish men and women who are so inclined. 2
Orthodox Judaism, 21 percent of American religious Jews, has not
yet outwardly endorsed homosexuality. In fact, it officially forbids
homosexual relations between adults.
But in the Talmud, the highest religious, ethical and legal authority
for Orthodox Jews, we find a very different, shocking reality: little
boys under the age of nine (delectable objects of homosexual lust)
are repeatedly described as incapable of “throwing guilt” on
the adult who rapes them!
How does the Talmud reach such a perverted conclusion? The Talmud
considers in depth the question: “What disqualifies a woman
from eligibility to marry a Jewish priest?” The Old Testament
says sexual immorality does. Yet the Talmud repeatedly asserts that
a grown-up woman can have sex with boys under the age of nine. There
is a difference of opinion among the most eminent rabbis about whether
this disqualifies her from being the wife of a priest. Yet all agree
that such intercourse is not sexual activity, and neither she nor
the little boy have done anything wrong.
The precedent of women being encouraged into pederasty creates
deep moral reverberations: a little boy is without moral protection.
His rape is not even a moral issue. It is consequently not hard to
imagine how Jewish homosexuals, already lusting after little boys
(chickens, in their vocabulary), could find justification in the
Talmud’s rationalization.
Here’s what the Talmud says. The Talmud teaches that since
little boys aren’t sexually mature, molesting them has no moral
implications. Because such a minor isn’t a “man” in
the mature sense, the boy and his sexual predator are exempted from
the Mosaic ban on homosexuality. It says, “Thou shalt not lie
with mankind.” (Lev. 18:29) 3
Sanhedrin 69b summarizes: “All agree that the connection
of a boy age nine years and a day is a real connection; while that
of one less than eight years is not.” 4 The majority opinion
in Sanh. 55a states: “Rab. said: pederasty with a child below
9 years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that…” “…Rab.
maintains that only he who is able to engage in sexual intercourse,
may, as the passive subject of pederasty, throw guilt [upon the active
offender]; while he who is unable to engage in sexual intercourse
cannot…” 5
The rabbis agreed that a woman could have sexual relations with
a young boy without it even being considered a sexual act: “A
small boy who has intercourse with a grown-up woman makes her [as
though she were] injured by a piece of wood” (Kethuboth 11b).
The footnote to this passage says, “Although the intercourse
of a small boy is not regarded a sexual act, nevertheless the woman
is injured by it as by a piece of wood” (i.e. she has not sinned,
but is perhaps disqualified from marrying a priest). 6 The Talmud
discusses such female pederasty ostensibly to determine if a woman,
by such intercourse, becomes disqualified to marry a priest. Yet
the Talmud opens a wide gate for all Jewish child molesters, male
or female, to indulge in sex with boys under nine, free from blame.
After all, the Talmud nullifies the Mosaic ban on same-sex with "mankind," teaching
that a sexually immature boy is not a "man." Is this not
a green light for Jewish homosexuals?
Such teaching is not accidental. The ancient rabbis, sexual perverts,
made careful provision for their deviant sexual indulgences. They
repeatedly made the Talmud’s text crystal-clear: boys of eight,
as minors, can’t “throw guilt” on the Jewish adult
who is the active offender against them.
Jewish apologists absurdly argue that these passages, affirming
the moral neutrality of sex with little boys, are expressions of
concern to maintain the innocence of the eight year old boy who has
been raped. The truth is, they mean to preserve pedophiles from guilt!
Isn’t the Talmud Outdated?
It might be objected that, just as there exist outdated practices
in the Old Testament such as polygamy and capital punishment to homosexuals,
so, isn’t it possible that even though the Talmud sanctions
pederasty, this permission is no longer taken seriously by Orthodox
Judaism?
If Talmudic Judaism had undergone a new “Age of Grace” (as
did Christian Jews), making obsolete primitive, moral behaviors,
the above argument might have weight.
But Judaism has not undergone such a revolution. Orthodoxy still
considers those who wrote the Talmud, the Pharisees, to be the most
transcendent spiritual lights Judaism will ever know. When great
rabbis speak, the Talmud teaches, they do so out of memory of what
they have learned in previous existence in the presence of God! So
morally binding are the decrees of Talmudic sages, that when their
Sanhedrin speaks through a majority, even God must go along with
their decision. 7
Christ, in His vitriolic attacks on the founders of Talmudic Judaism,
the Pharisees, accused them of “all uncleanness” (Matt.
23:27). By “all,” He may have implied that pederasty,
even then, was endorsed and practiced by Pharisees.
Today, while Orthodox Judaism presents itself as taking a strong
stand against moral perversion, its most venerated sacred literature,
the Talmud, continues to provide Jews a loophole for pederasty.
Anything to Win
For 1700 years, Orthodox-Talmudic Judaism was virtually the only
kind of Judaism, including within it, Hassidism or the practice of
Kabbalah. In the late 18th century, Reform Judaism emerged and, a
century later, Conservative. While Orthodox Judaism may seem to remain
a bastion of traditional family values, as we have seen, it is not.
Perhaps it is this double standard within Orthodox Judaism’s
most sacred literature that allows Orthodox Jew Abe Foxman (See, "ADL's
Foxman: Man of Faith?"), head of the Anti-Defamation League,
to affirm his own moral contradictions. Foxman promotes religious
education in Talmud and Kabbalah for Jewish youth. Yet he gives tacit
approval to male homosexuals, a high percentage of whom prey on underage
boys. The boy-molesting homosexuals of the North American Man Boy
Love Association (NAMBLA) are in solid agreement with the Talmud
that sex with underage boys is of no moral consequence.
How can the evil leaders of Judaism today allow such a contradiction?
Answer: they are so consummately evil that they will do anything
to destroy Christian civilization and prevail over it—even
if it means encouraging their own youth to become homosexual “shock
troops."
Why Does ADL Support Homosexuality?
ADL knows the fastest way to destroy existing society is through
homosexuality. Historically, no nation pervaded by sodomy endured
for long. It’s for this reason that Jewish Bolshevik Bella
Kuhn, conquering Hungary after the Russian Revolution in 1917, force-fed
homosexuality into the curriculum of public education, transforming
Hungary’s youth into moral degenerates. The same thing is happening
today as ADL promotes homosexuality in our school system, even from
the kindergarten level.
Several years ago, through Barnes and Noble bookstores, ADL promoted
homosexuality through their “No Place for Hate” program.
It encouraged families visiting the bookstores to invite a homosexual
couple to their home for an evening. This would teach kids, ADL suggested,
that there’s no truth in Christian judgments against sodomy.
Gays, ADL says, are some of the nicest, most non-threatening folks
your kids can get to know.
In major US cities, ADL indoctrinates city governments, schools,
even liberal churches, that Biblical Christians are gripped by a
psychiatric disorder: “homophobia.” ADL says bigoted
Christians persecute homosexuals, and are motivated by “hate
literature,” the Bible.
Outlawing Criticism of Sodomy
Yet ADL wants more than to persuade our children to become homosexuals.
It seeks special legal protection for homosexuality, making it a “hate
crime” to exhibit bias or discrimination against those who
practice it. ADL wants homosexuals protected, not just in housing,
employment and same-sex marriage, but even from words! ADL claims
it should be illegal to even criticize same-sex behaviors in public.
To create these laws, ADL has contrived a twisted definition of
hate: “bias” against homosexuality. In countries such
as Canada, thanks to ADL/B’nai B’rith federal and provincial
hate laws, public expressions of such bias on the air waves, print
media, or even on the street corner, can mean exorbitant fines or
imprisonment. If a talk show host even suggests that homosexuals
have a higher rate of AIDS, he can be fined and jailed, and the radio
station airing his “hate” can lose its broadcast license.
In Canadian hate crime court, only the feelings of homosexuals,
not truth, matter. If a homosexual feels “intimidated” by
public criticism, he can file hate crimes charges against the critic.
The truth will never be allowed in court. If a Christian has been
found guilty of hurting a homosexual’s feelings, he can face
a $10,000 fine. If he persists in criticizing homosexuals, he may
face years in prison.
Ancient Rivalry With Christianity
Why does organized Jewry, whether from Foxman on the Judaic right
or Rabbi Eric Yoffie on the left, seem so intent to weaken Christian
society?
It’s because Judaism, in all its branches, is but the continuation
of a grudge conceived thousands of years ago by the Pharisees against
Jesus and His followers. These ancient “blind guides,” the
leading elite for Jews to this day, were convinced they had a divine
mandate to eclipse Gentile power and dominate the nations. As long
as Gentile moral values remain strong, this can never happen.
Yes, Jews could dwell at peace if they followed God’s directive
to “seek the welfare of the cities where I have sent you into
exile” (Jeremiah 29:7). But rabbinic Judaism wants much more
than that. It intends, through eventual, uncontested power, to literally
create its own messianic new world order.
Two thousand years ago, Israel rejected and crucified her first
spiritual husband and only Messiah, scorning His promise of a spiritual
kingdom of God in their hearts. Judaism today awaits a messiah who
will share and legitimize an earthly kingdom for Jews in the most
global, physical way. That is an impossible dream for a people numbering
only about 15 million, unless Jewish energies are carefully focused
toward destruction of the two greatest barriers to their success:
Christianity and free enterprise capitalism.
Why Are Most Jews Liberals?
It is thus no mystery why Jews are predominantly liberal, Marxist,
pro-homosexual, and anti-Christian. This tiny minority of 2.5 percent
of the American population have gravitated toward, and succeed in
controlling, media, finance, and government. This control is necessary
for one great purpose: to fulfill the Talmudic dream of world dominion.
Of course, many liberal Jews are without any conception of being
directed toward such global governance. No matter. What is important
is that Jewish leadership, especially over the last several centuries,
has supplied the premises and propaganda which directs and molds
the Jewish masses, even their intellectuals, into liberal ways of
thinking and reacting.
In the history of the Jews—whether in ancient Babylon or
countries of Europe or the east— lies a consistent cycle of
Jews being allowed into Gentile nations, becoming financially oppressive
and morally corruptive, and then being expelled.
How do we explain this? Establishment historians say this cycle
is entirely due to Gentile (especially Christian) bigotry. Not so.
The nations of antiquity would have been just as willing as we to
let Jews peacefully coexist among them. Instead, the Jews, forced
to obey the overweening dictates of the Pharisees in the Talmud and
Kabbalah, were always compelled to attempt to destroy the societies
that sheltered them. The leaders of “organized world Jewry,” primarily
the World Jewish Congress, then ADL/B’nai B’rith, continues
this incitement today.
Jews as Homosexual Activists
Considering the wholesale encouragement of homosexuality, especially
in Reform Judaism, it isn’t surprising that Jewish activists
have spearheaded the gay rights movement. Jewish homosexuals constitute
a disproportionately large percentage of leadership and staff of
major homosexual organizations. Here are a few of the largest, and
the Jewish-sounding names of those who run them:
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC)
Joe Solomonese* President
Board of Directors: Mike Berman, Marty Lieberman, Andy Linsky, Dana
Perlman, Scott Weiner
Lara Schwartz, Senior Counsel
Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board: Jay Oppenheimer, Hilary Rosen,
Marty Lieberman, Andrea Sharrin*
Board of Governors: Fritz Beesemyer, AJ Bockelman, Cathy Ebert, Don
Epstein, Patty Fink, Glen Freedman, Christopher Stenger, Brian Stranghoner,
Brian Suber, Michael Lappin, Lisa Zellner, Molli Levin
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Board of Directors: William Weinberger (Treasurer), Judy Gluckstern
(Secretary),
GLAAD Members: Ilene Chaiken, Tanya Grubich, Mark Reisbaum, Carol
Rosenfeld, Steve Seidmon, Jeffrey Sosnick, Jeff Soukup, Steven Rozencraft*
Jennifer Oritz, Assoc. Director of Special Events
Jillian Waldman, Major Gifts Officer, LA
Jennifer Glenhorn,* Communications Director
Parents and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Ron Schlittler, Deputy Executive Director
Craig Ziskin, Development Director
Staff Counsel: Lara Schwartz
Directors: Carole Benowitz, Dody Goldstein, David Horowitz, Rebecca
Shiff, Daniel Tepfer
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Jeff Soref, Chair
Marsha Botver, Vice Chair
Roberta Achtenberg, Senior Advisor to CEO
Loren S. Ostrow, Attorney
Paula Redd Zenan, Human Resources Commissioner
Michael Aller, Director of Tourism and Convention
Allan Horowitz, Coordinator, Out For Equity Progress
Sandi Greene, Chief Operations Officer
Roberta Sklara, Director of Communications
Monique Hoeflinger, Organizing and Training Director
Becky Levin, Senior Strategist
S. T. Cohen, Phillipe Leber, Alex Breitman, Development Interns
Todd Kimmelman, Shavla Sellars, Major Gift Officers
The Mystery of Israel
Nineteen hundred years ago, Christ characterized Jerusalem as “Sodom
and Egypt” (Rev. 11:8). “Sodom” is synonymous with
homosexuality.
Judaism’s false messiah, anti-Christ, in the book of Ezekiel,
is described as the “profane prince of Israel” (Ezek.
21:25). He is also described as “having no regard for the desire
of women” (Dan. 11:37). As Christ was celibate, so this diabolical
mimic of all of Christ’s attributes will abstain from sex with
a woman—yet for the wrong reason: he is a Jewish homosexual.
Judaism’s dalliance with homosexuality has existed for a
long time, and will continue, until “Sodom and Egypt” of
the future, like Sodom of the past, will be desolated by fire (Rev.
17:16).
Yet, from the unspeakable wickedness of liberal Jewish activism
today, Christ will raise up a purified remnant of Jews who will trust
in Him as passionately as their fathers reviled Him.
Most Christians know that in rejecting and crucifying Christ, Israel
fell from grace into apostasy. What they don’t comprehend is
the abysmal depth and darkness of that apostasy! They do not really
perceive what Christ meant when He said to the Jews, “Your
house is left unto you desolate” (Matt. 23:38).
At the same time, the mortal mind can’t truly comprehend
the astounding grace of Christ to redeem and resurrect the descendants
of today’s anti-Christ Jewish activists.
St. Paul calls the whole saga of Israel a “mystery” (Rom.
11:25). God hasn’t allowed Judaism to become so evil in order
to confirm the claim of anti-Semites—that Jews are the most
degenerate of races. Rather, the “mystery” of their apostasy,
and eventual redemption, testifies to His astonishing mercy.
If He will someday resurrect a whole nation from the most abysmal
spiritual darkness, then who are you and I to think our sins too
black for Him to cleanse? As He will restore the repentant remnant
to His favor for a thousand years (See, "Bible
Prophecy Made Simple"), each one of us, though we may have alienated Him very
deeply, can find intimate friendship with Him now and for eternity.
How? By repenting and trusting Him for the rest of our lives.
This is the whole purpose of our existence—to discover the
One who created us and become His friend forever.
Someday, the Jewish remnant will indeed come to Christ, after enduring
the greatest suffering in the history of mankind.
That’s not necessary for you. You can trust Him now.
Endnotes:
*Likely but not certain to be a Jewish name
1 Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) Responsum,
1996, plus comment by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, quoted by Religious Action
Center of Reformed Judaism.
2 Forward, “Key Rabbis Say Conservative Judaism
Will Lift Gay Ban,” Jennifer Siegel, Aug 25, 2006.
3 Sanhedrin 52b asserts that sex with a minor is exempt
from punishment.
4 Sanhedrin 69b says sex with a boy of younger than eight
is not really sex.
5 Sanhedrin 55a says pederasty with a boy younger than
nine is morally neutral.
6 Kethuboth 11b states underage boys can’t throw
guilt on those who sexually assault them.
7 The Talmud relates how Moses ascended to heaven and
there beheld Rabbi Akiba (still unborn) expounding the Torah “in
a wondrous manner” (Menachoth 29b). By majority decision, the
most eminent Talmudic rabbis could overturn anything Moses said.
If a particular rabbi was acclaimed by his fellow Pharisees as the
greatest of that generation, then “he is, by virtue of his
position as chief of the courts of justice, invested with the same
authority as Moses (Sifra, Deut. 1:53; R. H. 25ab). Even when they
decide that left should be right, or right left, when they are mistaken,
or misled in their judgment, they must be obeyed (R. H. 25a). Heaven
itself kneels to the authority of the earthly court of justice…” (“Authority,” Jewish
Encyclopedia, p. 337).
