The Jewish case against same-sex marriage
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Just as many Jews tend to gravitate to liberal positions on a variety of issues, the segment of the Jewish community favoring same-sex marriage has grown larger and louder in the past few years. That’s unfortunate, because if any issue has a “Jewish view,” it’s this one, and that view opposes redefining marriage. Some reasons: –
The Jerusalem Post reports First and foremost, same-sex marriage is
against Jewish law. “So what?” many have argued, “we don’t try to ban
pork or outlaw spending money
on Shabbat.” But unlike those two transgressions, the prohibition of
same-sex marriages – both religious and civil – is a Noahide law, as
explained in the Talmud (Masechet Hullin). That means the
ban on same-sex marriage, like the bans on adultery and murder, also
apply to non-Jews. We therefore have a strong interest in rejecting
such nuptials, regardless of the religion of the participants.
Even the increasingly liberal Conservative movement is on the
record favoring man-woman marriage. Every paper on homosexuality ever
passed by that movement’s Law Committee has either rejected same-sex
marriage or taken no stance on it. Every paper embracing same-sex
marriage has been voted down.