Rabbis call Romney 'dangerous homosexualist'

Mitt Romney

For the second time in two days, an organization of rabbis has taken a public position in opposition to homosexuality and the advance of that lifestyle choice by Barack Obama's administration.

Only this time the target of the criticism is GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who presided over the state's affairs when officials there imposed same-sex marriage on residents.

The statement today comes from the Rabbinical Alliance of America, which describes itself as an organization of 850 Orthodox Jewish rabbis in the U.S. and Canada, who serve some 500,000 religious Jews.

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The statement attributed to Rabbi Yehuda Levin said that Hannukah marks the defeat of the Syrian Greek efforts "to impose their pagan culture on the Jewish people." That included, he said, the increased emphasis on homosexual behavior.

"While our organization does not make any endorsements of political candidates, in view of the disastrous national decline in morality, we are compelled to condemn Mitt Romney's support and promotion of the immoral homosexual lifestyle and agenda," his statement said. "While we sympathize with those challenged by homosexual urges, or a desire for minors or adultery, they all remain prohibited activities that debase the practitioners and demoralize society. Gov. Romney over a long political career has earned the title: 'Dangerous Homosexualist' – one who constantly advances the militant anti-religious, anti-society, immoral homosexual agenda to the detriment of family people."

A WND request for comment from the Romney campaign did not generate a response.

The statement stemmed from a special conclave of the rabbis:

WND reported just one day earlier about the "Declaration on the Torah Approach to Homosexuality" from dozens of rabbis, community leaders and even mental health professionals.

It states that same-sex attractions can be modified and "healed," and condemns the "propaganda blitz" that has been launched "to persuade the public about the legitimacy of homosexuality."

"The media is rife with negative labels implying that one is 'hateful' or 'homophobic' if they do not accept the homosexual lifestyle as legitimate. This political coercion has silenced many into acquiescence. Unfortunately this attitude has seeped into the Torah community and many have become confused or have accepted the media's portrayal of this issue," the statement says.

"The Torah makes a clear statement that homosexuality is not an acceptable lifestyle or a genuine identity by severely prohibiting its conduct. Furthermore, the Torah, ever prescient about negative secular influences, warns us in Vayikra (Leviticus) 20:23 'Do not follow the traditions of the nations that I expel from before you…' Particularly the Torah writes this in regards to homosexuality and other forbidden sexual liaisons," the statement says.

The rabbis' statement today cited a new book from Amy Contrada that is called, "Mitt Romney’s Deception." The book documents Romney's career promises to advance the homosexual agenda and issue proclamations celebrating homosexual youth pride.

"If one has the same wife for decades and a beautiful family personally, but advances a corrupt ideology which runs counter to his own religion and destroys the religious cultural values of society, he is like a rabbi who says; 'I would never eat pork but I will force-feed pig to thousands of people.' Pig remains not kosher and he too is not kosher," Levin said.

"We plead with other religious denominations, most particularly the Mormon Church which maintains a traditional view regarding the homosexual agenda, to examine Romney's record and join us in sanctioning him. The time has certainly come for other denominations to emulate the manifesto of the Central Rabbinical Congress of the U.S. and Canada which, in the early 80s, prohibited voting for, honoring or supporting pro-homosexual agenda politicians," he said.

The two comments come just days before voters in Iowa are to meet in the first-of-the-campaign caucuses to identity a leader in the race for the GOP nomination for president.

The earlier declaration said:

"We emphatically reject the notion that a homosexually inclined person cannot overcome his or her inclination and desire. Behaviors are changeable. The Torah does not forbid something which is impossible to avoid. Abandoning people to lifelong loneliness and despair by denying all hope of overcoming and healing their same-sex attraction is heartlessly cruel. Such an attitude also violates the biblical prohibition in Vayikra (Leviticus) 19:14 'and you shall not place a stumbling block before the blind.'"

Blaming Obama

It was just days ago that a former lesbian now running a specialized ministry said Obama is using his worldwide influence "and the financial power of the government" to promote homosexuality.

That's from Janet Boynes of Janet Boynes Ministries, which states up-front that its goal is to "minister to individuals who question their sexuality or who wish to leave homosexuality. JBM will seek to inform and challenge churches and society about the issues surrounding sexuality and teach how to minister to the homosexual community."

She told WND that many "young and naïve secularists" are busy following Obama's leading on his sexually permissive agenda, and the result of that will lead "to the demise of traditional values and families," she said.

The Obama agenda also "propagates the attack of Judeo-Christian beliefs on a global level."

But while other ministries are critical of Obama's pro-homosexual drive – he's put more homosexuals in positions of power than any other president, opened the U.S. military to open homosexuality and signed into law a "hate crimes" plan that provides special protections for homosexuals – Boynes goes one step further.

"The Bible says that the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10)," she said. "It is his main objective to bring confusion and cause division within the church and he does this by altering God's truth in such a way that many Christians are deceived if they are not rooted and grounded in God's word."

WND recently reported on the policy of the Obama administration to be the new global sex cop and a recently signed executive order that some say is sure to promote "quotas" of LGBT hires for federal government jobs.

WND also reported on the push by various administration officials to normalize LGBT behavior, including the designation of "gender identity" as a protected status for federal jobs.

WND columnist Matt Barber wrote that liberals are "desperate" in their efforts "to dredge up some natural, biological rationalization – of which science has found none – to validate demonstrably unnatural behavior."

"That's why we see such visceral hatred on the left for the ex-gay community. From a political and legal standpoint, it's strategically critical that these same liberals undermine and marginalize the very real-life experiences of untold thousands of former homosexuals," he wrote. "This mean-spiritedness represents a profound lack of respect for other people's 'right to choose.' Their favorite dig is: 'You can't pray away the gay.' Once you've self-identified as – or been labeled – 'gay,' you're stuck with it, you see.

"Ironically, these same liberals will suggest with a straight face (no pun intended) that something that is innate – a person's biological sex – can change. If you're a man who, today, feels like a woman, why then, snippity-snip and voila! You're a woman," he said.

Peditricians' warning

WND reported earlier when a coalition of pediatricians warned educators not to promote being "gay."

The American College of Pediatricians, a nonprofit organization funded by members and donors, wrote to school superintendents saying, "It is not the school's role to diagnose and attempt to treat any student's medical condition, and certainly not a school's role to 'affirm' a student's perceived personal sexual orientation."

Further, schools can create a "life of unnecessary pain and suffering" for a child when they reinforce a behavior chosen out of a child's "confusion."

"Even when motivated by noble intentions, schools can ironically play a detrimental role if they reinforce this disorder," said the letter, signed by Dr. Tom Benton, the organization's president.

The group also has created a website called Facts About Youth as a resource for school officials to obtain the facts from a "non-political, non-religious channel."